The US Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in a case that could determine whether the First Amendment of the Constitution protects death threats made on the Internet as free speech.
The City Council on Tuesday voted to raise the minimum wage in Chicago to $13 an hour by 2019. The City Council on Tuesday voted to raise the minimum wage in Chicago to $13 an hour by 2019.
Violent crime in the nation's largest city has hit a two-decade low, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday. The number of homicides in the past four months was down 7 percent compared with the same time frame last year; the number of robberies dropped 14 percent.
Rides could be cheaper by up to 50 percent Uber rides can get expensive, even if they are for a short distance. Now Uber is trying to cut costs for passengers and save the environment a little too.
Qatar has lifted a travel ban that had kept two American citizens from leaving the Mideast nation even though the couple had been cleared in the death of their child. An appellate court had acquitted Matthew and Grace Huang of starving their adopted daughter in 2013, but immigration officials at Hamad International Airport would not allow them to leave Sunday.
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of a pivotal day in the Free Speech Movement, students at UC Berkeley plan to protest an upcoming spike in their tuition.
After opening fire on a 12-year-old boy holding a toy gun, two Cleveland police officers then waited almost 4 minutes to administer first aid to the child.
A major cable failure may have caused a widespread power outage in Detroit Tuesday. A major cable failure may have caused a widespread power outage in Detroit Tuesday.
Gas prices are set to continue their fall and might come in below $2 in some regions of the United States by as early as the end of this week. The bargain prices are fueled by a decision from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to keep oil production at current levels.
High school and college students in several U.S. cities ditched class on Monday to protest against a grand jury decision not to indict Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in August. Anger from the decision swelled in the St. Louis suburb and across the country over Thanksgiving weekend.
On Monday, a Los Angeles man was sentenced Monday for posting topless photos of his ex-girlfriend online, making him the first person to be convicted under California's new revenge porn law.
If you're feeling lucky, then you may want to purchase a ticket for the Mega Millions lottery jackpot, which currently stands at $70 million. The drawing will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 2 at 11 p.m. EST.
A group of conspirators apparently inspired by Islamist ideology targeted the Sears Tower and the studios of talk show host Oprah Winfrey, both located in Chicago, in a 2009 bomb plot, Judicial Watch reported based on "law enforcement and other sources."
Republicans have to pay attention to the Latino vote ahead of the presidential election in 2016, but how to do that, and preserve their political base that is against rights for undocumented immigrants is the problem they now face. In what appears to be the start of an immigration reform battle for the new congressional session in January, Republican lawmakers and pundits are considering several routes to fight Obama on his executive action for immigration reform, and introduce their own legislation.
