A police investigation has revealed that three Washington state police officers fired seventeen shots at an unarmed Hispanic man who was struck by five or six bullets before he died on a sidewalk in a predominantly Hispanic Washington community earlier this month.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid announced Wednesday that Senate Democrats have accepted a Republican proposal to separately fund the Department of Homeland Security without language blocking the immigration executive actions from President Barack Obama which could avoid the department's possible shutdown with its funding due to expire by week's end. The announcement came on the same day as President Obama met with Latino immigration advocates in Washington, D.C., and expressed confidence his administration would win its pending case involving his executive actions on immigration after a Texas federal judge's ruling prevented them from going forward.
In a February 24th opinion piece, Jose Marquez, the President and CEO of Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association (LISTA), opined that Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler's proposed Open Internet rules that would prevent blocking, throttling, and paid fast lanes online would, inexplicably, harm Latinos. The FCC is set to vote on these rules on February 26th.
"The Wolf of Wall Street" star Leonardo DiCaprio got quite close and personal with "The Fifty Shades of Grey" star Dakota Johnson during the recent SNL 40th Anniversary party at The Plaza Hotel.
A high school freshman had to hire a CEO for a babysitting business that now employs 150 and serves 190 clients after three years in operation, ABC News reports.
TJX will raise worker's wages TJX, the parent company of TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and HomeGoods, will follow Walmart's recent announcement and raise worker's wages above the minimum wage, Forbes reports.
There is lots of excitement for the Feb. 25 Powerball jackpot, which currently stands at $70 million. The drawing will take place Wednesday night at 11 p.m. ET.
While every baby's birth is a miracle in itself, California doctors were stunned when Silas Philips was born fully encased in his amniotic sac, offering a unique glimpse of life inside the womb.
A Brooklyn, New York man has been charged with offering to kill President Barack Obama for ISIS, if the militant group entrusted him with carrying out such a dastardly deed.
Authorities in Virginia's Fairfax County are accusing a senior State Department official of soliciting sex from a minor. Daniel Rosen, who serves as the department's director of counterterrorism programs and policy, was arrested Tuesday afternoon at his home in the nation's capital.
On Tuesday, a Texas jury found Eddie Ray Routh, accused of shooting Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield, guilty. Routh now faces life in prison for the murders he committed almost two years ago.
The student said he was attempting to recreate a scene from "Fifty Shades of Grey" when he sexually assault and beat a female student with a belt despite her objections.
The military judge found the Lebanese-born Marine guilty of desertion, after he left his post in 2004 and then fled from the U.S. in 2005. He has been sentenced to two years in prison.
Local authorities and animal rescue teams on Monday freed 19 manatees who had gotten stuck after swimming into a Florida town's storm drain. The operation took rescuers hours, and they had to cut the drain pipe in order to save the last of the giant marine mammals also known as sea cows.
The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that it will not file charges against George Zimmerman, the Florida man who was acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
Following the fourth failed vote to debate the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fund bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced a new standalone legislation to block President Barack Obama's immigration executive actions.
