While approximately 4.9 million undocumented immigrants may be eligible for President Barack Obama's immigration executive actions, one group did not receive as much protection from possible deportation: the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) community.
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.
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.
Texas is leading a coalition of 16 other states in suing the Obama Administration over his plan for immigration reform. The suit argues Obama's executive action violated the U.S. Constitution.
President Barack Obama's latest immigration executive action is only temporary and could be expired in 2017 when the next president is sworn into office, but based on new polling data, immigration will remain an important topic for the Latino community during the 2016 presidential election.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appears to be unstoppable among potential Democratic Party presidential candidates to secure the political party's nomination based on new polling figures.
A Staten Island grand jury voted on Wednesday not to bring criminal charges against the New York City police officer at the center of the Eric Garner case.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto submitted a bill to Congress on Monday that aims to replace the country's most corrupt municipal police forces within the next two years
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) claimed approximately 50,000 less patients have died in hospitals due in part of provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also referred to as Obamacare.
President Barack Obama's immigration executive orders addressed issues including border security, expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), work permit authorization for undocumented immigrant parents of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents, but one topic left unanswered for many immigrant rights groups is the management of detention centers.
Politicians, pundits and law experts, have questioned the legality of President Barack Obama's Nov. 20 immigration executive action, but experts during a press call this week have reinforced the president's orders as lawful.
House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday pushed a spending bill that would fund most of the federal government through September of 2015. The move comes as some of the Ohio representative's fellow Republicans are preparing for a showdown with President Barack Obama that could lead to another government shutdown.
Baring any last minute complication, U.S. President Barack Obama will nominate former Pentagon official Ashton Carter as U.S. defense secretary, reports CNN.
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.
In Mexico, 11 people who had been arrested in recent anti-government demonstrations and sent to maximum-security prisons have been released without charges.
