Just in time for Christmas, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its latest report that finds that non-farm payroll employment increased by 321,000 in November and that the unemployment rate is unchanged at 5.8 percent.
New York City Police arrested 223 people in overnight protests Thursday, the second consecutive night of demonstrations following a grand jury's vote not to indict the police officers responsible in the choke hold death of Staten Island man Eric Garner.
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Republican lawmakers outraged by President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration reform plan to introduce a bill that could apparently include a provision to put an electrified wire on the Mexican border to stop the flow of undocumented immigrants.
In light of the national outrage over two recent grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of unarmed Black men, many people voiced their frustrations with the justice system on Twitter using the hashtag "#CrimingWhileWhite."
New revelations have been unveiled about the Cleveland police officer who fatally shot a 12-year-old boy holding a toy gun last month and the police department where he works.
In the wake of a grand jury's failure to indict New York police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, mayor Bill de Blasio has announced the initiation of a retraining program for the entire New York City police force.
President Obama will nominate Ashton Carter as new secretary of Defense on Friday, USA Today reported based on administration sources. The 60-year-old Pentagon veteran already held the department's No. 2 job from 2011 to 2013 and is poised to replace Chuck Hagel, who announced his plans to resign last month.
Service stations in Oklahoma City were offering gas below $2 a gallon, though the national average for regular still tops that price by about 75 cents.
The launch of the new Orion spacecraft has been moved to Friday morning after issues today. The unmanned module will undergo trials before sending humans back into space.
In Detroit three young men died in a car crash on Wednesday riding in a 2003 Marauder that had just been sold to one of the victims moments before the car crash.
New York City will spend $130 million to reform the way its criminal justice system handles mentally ill inmates, as well as those consistently cycling in and out of prison.
A little more than two years after President Barack Obama issued an executive action to create the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, he expanded the program for hundreds of thousands of additional undocumented immigrants to receive a temporary stay in the U.S.
While many people trying to stay healthy over the winter have gotten their flu shot this year, some officials are saying this year's vaccine may not be enough protection from certain strains that are spreading throughout the U.S.
Things heated up in the courtroom on day 16 of the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial. The prosecution had another fiery exchange with the defense's star witness, and a third juror was dismissed.
A U.S. healthcare worker who may have been exposed to Ebola in West Africa is currently being monitored at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. The patient, who has not been identified, arrived from a West African country early on Thursday for testing and observation, the hospital said.
