The U.S. Labor Department said Thursday weekly applications for unemployment aid fell another 23,000 to a seasonally adjusted 264,000, the lowest level of applications since April 2000.
While most Americans anticipate President Barack Obama to announce an executive order for immigration reform, he instead announced action to address government credit card security.
A pinup calendar video shoot in conservative Utah featuring women riding in tanks and firing weapons while wearing bikinis has sparked an investigation among law enforcement who suspect some of their own equipment was used for the shoot.
Three weeks remain until the mid-term elections and 25.2 million Latinos are registered to vote. There are contentious Senate races in a number of states but few with large numbers of Latino voters. Election watchers are curious how this will affect voter turnout.
The excitement is growing for the Oct. 18 Powerball jackpot, which currently stands at a whopping $100 million. The drawing will take place Saturday night at 11 p.m. EDT.
Same-sex couples are now legally permitted to get married in Arizona. Same-sex couples are now legally permitted to get married in Arizona. Beginning on Friday, gay marriage became legal in The Copper State after Attorney General Tom Horne announced that the state would not challenge a federal court decision that overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriage.
Federal Reserve Chairperson Janet Yellen's salary is less than 113 staffers within the same agency she administers. Details on her pay coincidentally comes as she addressed income inequality.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that a health care worker who may have handled a specimen from the Ebola patient who died in Texas earlier this month is currently on a seven-day cruise ship around the Caribbean.
Latinos may be the fastest growing population in the U.S., but it might not affect most of the 435 congressional districts across the U.S., according to the latest Pew Hispanic Center findings.
Groundbreaking and building permits both jumped in September Contractors are getting more building permits and breaking ground on more homes as the U. S.
With growing concern over the seeming lack of control the U.S, has in controlling the spread of ebola, President Obama appointed an "Ebola czar," Ron Klain.
The number of unemployment applications has dropped to a low not seen since mid-2000. The unemployment is also down to 5.9 percent; however, it is too early to tell whether these numbers will hold.
The youngest son of Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter, issued a statement expressing his regrets for being discharged from the Navy Rescue last year amid reports that he failed a drug test.
After three and a half years of failing to resolve technological issues, bumping heads with the teachers union and losing friends with school board members, Los Angeles schools Superintendent John Deasy officially resigned as head of the second-largest school system in the country.
