Representatives from Google, Apple, Facebook and 20 other tech companies joined the civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and his group Rainbow Push at a Silicon Valley summit, Diversity 2.0, to find solutions to the scarcity of women, blacks and Latinos at technology companies. It will be the first time companies will publicly address their lack of diversity.
A Missouri inmate took his final breath early Wednesday morning before the state executed him for sexually assaulting and beating a 63-year-old woman to death with a hammer in 1998.
Four more states have joined a Texas-led coalition that seeks to sue the Obama administration an over executive action on immigration announced last month wherein the president's unilaterally moved to spare millions of people living illegally in the United States from deportation.
A man who had been secretly living in the rafters above a Denver-area restaurant fell through the ceiling Tuesday night. He was trapped in a wall space, according to police.
President Barack Obama promoted a new $1 billion package of combined public and private funding for U.S. preschool programs during a White House summit.
President Barack Obama's job approval rating continued to decline, based on new polling data conducted after the midterm elections, and his handling on immigration has been viewed with unpopular opinion.
On Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry appeared before a Senate committee to ask the U.S. legislature for greater powers in the fight against ISIS. These would give the U.S. military greater freedom in its current fight but also blur the extent of American involvement.
The excitement is growing for the Dec. 10 Powerball jackpot, which currently stands at $60 million. The drawing will take place Wednesday night at 11 p.m. ET.
In an interview with Telemundo, President Barack Obama expressed the help his administration offered Mexico in trying to figure out what happen to the 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers' College who went missing in September, a tragedy that he said had "no place in civilized society."
Columbia Law School has allowed its students to delay final exams due to the "trauma" following two racially-charged cases in which grand juries chose not to indict white police officers involved in the deaths of unarmed black men.
On Monday, the New York City Council approved a bill that would allow transgender people to change their gender on birth certificates without previous medical transitioning. The bill would grant greater freedoms of identity to transgender people in the city.
The Central Park Five have filed a lawsuit seeking $52 million in damages against New York State in the court of claims for wrongful imprisonment. The five men received a $41 million settlement in a lawsuit for the some charge against New York City in September, without the city admitting culpability and law enforcement misconduct. Their claim was reactivated when the city settled.
Mayors from 25 U.S. cities met in New York City for a summit to discuss groundwork to implement President Obama's executive action to provide immigration relief to millions of undocumented people nationwide. The group worked out coordinating and sharing expertise, and strategies to push for immigration reform.
A federal autopsy conducted by the Department of Justice stated that Michael Brown, the unarmed African American teenager fatally shot in Missouri by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, died from multiple gunshot wounds and described his death as a "homicide."
The federal judge selected to rule on a pending multi-state lawsuit over President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration reform has already been critical of the president's immigration policy.
