The U.S. Senate has been debating on the Keystone XL pipeline legislation following a vote push by Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. Landrieu has insisted the recent effort to vote on the bill is not political as she faces a runoff election following the midterm Election Day.
Members of The National Institute for Latino Policy (NiLP) spoke out on Monday at New York City Hall about the de Blasio Administration's abysmal record hiring Latinos for his government, saying it is the most underrepresented group. With the Latino population at 29 percent citywide, the de Blasio Administration has hired only 11 percent for his administration appointments.
The word "vape" has been recognized as Oxford Dictionaries' 2014 Word of the Year. The word "vape" has been recognized as Oxford Dictionaries' 2014 Word of the Year.
Japan has money problems. After an unexpected shrink for the second consecutive quarter, Japan, the world's third largest economy, is now in a recession.
The Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone has not slowed down. President Obama is seeking billions in funding from Congress before it ends it session. Health professionals are dying from the disease, but thousands more are badly needed if the disease is going to stop killing people.
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.
