The Democratic leader in the House of Representatives has named a Latino representative from New Mexico to head the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). If approved by the Democratic caucus, Rep. Ben Ray Luján will be the first Latino to hold the position.
An elderly couple walked away without any injuries after a small cargo plane crashed into their home in Chicago, only inches away from where they were sleeping. The pilot, however, died at the scene when his Aero Commander 500-B plane slammed into the Southwest Side house at around 2:40 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Three separate sinkholes have opened up in the last week all within a Tampa-Bay neighborhood, swallowing a car and causing issues amongst the residents.
There has been yet another delay in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial. There has been yet another delay in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial. After returning from recess on Monday, Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens announced that the trial will be postponed until Thursday because of an emergency situation, CBS 5 in Arizona reports.
A Virginia woman has been charged for promoting the Islamic State on social media and offering to help get an acquaintance into Syria to join the extremist group.
A lawsuit filed Monday by Asian students rejected from Harvard University is attacking the school's affirmative action policies, stating that Asians often with higher grade-point averages and test scores than black and Hispanic students who get in are not accepted.
Paris authorities said Monday that one of the Islamic State extremists involved in a video showing a beheaded U.S. aid worker and slaughtered Syrian soldiers is an Islamic convert Frenchman.
The White House on Monday cited a 1986 immigration legislation that granted amnesty to many undocumented immigrants without accounting for their spouses or children, to justify its own plans to issue an executive order on immigration.
Convicted mass murderer Charles Manson plans to marry a 26-year-old woman named Afton Elaine Burton, who runs several websites promoting his release and has spent the last nine years trying to help exonerate him.
If you're feeling lucky, then you may want to purchase a ticket for the Mega Millions lottery jackpot, which currently stands at $35 million. The drawing will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 11 p.m. EST.
On Monday dozens of demonstrators protested in Clayton, Missouri where a grand jury is set to decide whether to indict a white police officer Darren Wilson for killing unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri back in August.
According to one Democratic lawmaker in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama has “attempted” to work with the Republican Party on comprehensive immigration reform.
New York City has passed new laws to limit cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement when it comes to arrests. Under the Secure Communities Program, people were being held for 48 hours without a warrant while ICE checked its records whether to deport or detain the person. Civil rights group complained the program violated constitutional rights and were beginning to mount lawsuits alleging police departments violated constitutional rights of those people held.
Former President Bill Clinton said the low Latino voter turnout for the midterm elections might have been connected to the immigration reform executive action delay.
Moments before 8:45 a.m. on Nov. 16, Wai Kuen Kwok, a 61-year-old Chinese immigrant, was standing with his wife and waiting for a downtown train at a Bronx subway station on E. 167 St. to board the train to Manhattan's Chinatown for breakfast and grocery shopping, according to New York Police Department. However, they never made it to their destination.
Oregon voters were asked if they would support a measure that would have given undocumented residents driving licenses - 66 percent of voters voted against the measure despite a state law to approve the measure.
According to a comprehensive state-by-state report issued by the National Center on Family Homelessness, one in every 30 children living in the United States is homeless. This alarming statistic means a total of 2.5 million children -- an all time high.
