The second open enrollment period of the federal HealthCare.gov and state-based health insurance exchanges has its first deadline set for Monday for consumers seeking coverage starting Jan. 1, 2015.
Shootings in three communities outside Philadelphia have left at least four people dead. A law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation said the incidents appeared to be related to a domestic dispute. Meanwhile, the death toll has been put at five.
Congress approves $5.4 billion to be spent to fight Ebola and a UN commission issues a report on the socio-economic impacts of the Ebola virus on the African continent and presses for debt forgiveness.
A Philadelphia police officer killed a man early Monday following a struggle during a traffic stop in the Mayfair area of the city. The lethal shooting took place at around 2:45 a.m. on Frankford Avenue.
Two of three escaped Alabama inmates have been found and are in custody Two of three escaped inmates from an Alabama jail have been found and are in custody.
Kansas and tornadoes go together like Glinda and the Munchkins, but the state's residents experienced a particularly odd weather phenomenon Sunday when they saw a twister and snow on the same day.
A New York toddler died on Tuesday, possibly from drinking from an e-cigarette refill bottle. A New York toddler died on Tuesday, possibly from drinking from an e-cigarette refill bottle.
The parents of eight of the children killed in Dec. 14, 2012 at the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary have informed Connecticut courts that they might file wrongful death lawsuits in either state or federal court.
Not even a month has passed since President Barack Obama announced an executive order on immigration, but it has already been threatened by legal and legislative action.
The campaign to rein in the surveillance of Americans by the National Security Agency (NSA) has become even more difficult. Congress in its lame duck session has used a set of provisions that expand rather than curtail the agency's data-gathering power.
A missing 11-month-old Houston baby boy was found alive in Mexico on Friday, four days after his mother's body was found stuffed into a refrigerator in the family's apartment
A man from upstate New York pleaded guilty to charges that he mailed 21 death threats with white powder in the envelopes over 15 years to U.S. Senator John McCain, a local high school and others
Although Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid tried to send the Senate home for the weekend and reconvene on Monday, Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee created a procedural roadblock, insisting that the Majority Leader allow a vote on an amendment to the bill that would deter funding from President Obama's executive order to stop almost 5 million undocumented immigrants from being deported.
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote to pass the House-approved $1.1. trillion spending bill to keep the government running through to next September and to avoid a government shutdown.
A suspect believed to be connected to a shooting that took place Friday near a high school in Portland, Oregon was brought into custody early Saturday.
Although the Great Recession hurt a vast majority of Americans, a new study shows that white Americans are recovering at a much faster pace compared to Blacks and Hispanics, who are still suffering from the 2008 economic meltdown. As a result, the wealth gap has widened along racial and ethnic lines.
