The Obama Administration announced this week the opening of the nation's largest family immigration detention center in the rural Southern Texas town of Dilley. The center is being converted from former oil field workers camp and being prepared as authorities brace for another influx of mothers and children from across the U.S. border.
If you're feeling lucky, then you may want to purchase a ticket for the Mega Millions lottery jackpot, which currently stands at a whopping $113 million. The drawing will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 16 at 11 p.m. EST.
After months of indecision, the U.S. Senate has approved Dr. Vivek Murthy as surgeon general. Murthy proved a controversial pick because of his comments concerning the NRA and gun control reform.
The publication issued an apology Tuesday when they discovered that an article about a New York teen who reportedly made $72 million in stocks was untrue.
The family of an Ohio man shot and killed by police in a Dayton-area Walmart in August hopes to sue police and the store. Relatives announced their decision to sue at a Tuesday news conference, the newspaper added.
Internet users across the globe were most fascinated and consumed with searching about the death of Robin Williams, the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and Ebola, according to Google's annual list of the most popular search terms in the past year.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday he will "actively explore" a run for the White House in 2016. The son of George H.W. Bush and brother of George W. Bush - the 41st and 43rd presidents of the United States, respectively - took to Facebook and Twitter to make the announcement.
A Customs and Border Protection officer was arrested last Friday after prosecutors accused him of taking bribes and allowing drug-hauling vehicles to cross a South Texas checkpoint into the United States.
Evidence seized during a traffic stop can be used in court even if a police officer pulled the car over based on a misunderstanding of the law, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
A new study seems to support evidence that e-cigarettes lure teenagers into smoking regular cigarettes, raising concern that the products could lead to a new generation of nicotine addicts.
Families of nine of the victims killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, and an injured teacher, filed a lawsuit in Connecticut state court on Monday against the manufacturer of the rifle used in the 2012 massacre, plus the distributor and the gun store where it was sold.
An American citizen illegally crossed into North Korea and gave a speech denouncing the U.S. The man is believed to be bipolar and has not been imprisoned by North Korean authorities, unlike previous American captives..
The families of some of the Sandy Hook massacre victims, which took place in Newtown, Connecticut two years ago, are seeking an unspecified monetary recompense for what happened to their loved ones.
A U.S. Marine has been charged with murder for strangling a transgender Filipina woman to death. Philippine government prosecutors charged detained Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton with murder Monday in the killing of a Filipina transgender woman named Jennifer Laude.
New population projections based on the U.S. Census Bureau show whites will become a minority by 2044 while Latinos, Asians and multiracial populations are all expected to double in size over the next few decades. America will be a nation with a youthful, growing minority population juxtaposed against an aging, slow-growing, and soon to be declining white population.
The cast of the Golden Globe-nominated film "Selma," which tells the historical civil rights demonstrations led by Dr. Martin Luther King in the 1960s, gave advice and related the struggle 50 years ago to the protests over racial injustice currently occurring across the country.
The Supreme Court refused to allow Arizona to enforce stringent restrictions on medical abortions. That decision has left in place a lower court ruling in Planned Parenthood Arizona et al. v. Humble that blocked the rules that regulate where and how women can take drugs to induce abortion. The measure will remain preliminarily blocked while the case moves forward in the federal district court.
A man has been arrested by Auburn, Alabama police in connection with the freshman football player at the nearby SEC university who was fatally shot over the weekend.
