President Barack Obama on Thursday defended the Black Lives Matter movement, explaining to law enforcement officials that the social justice movement is not anti-white or anti-police, but rather calls attention to issues plaguing the African-American community.
The Obama administration is urging Congress to devise a plan to help rescue Puerto Rico from its massive $72 billion debt crisis before it implodes into an even bigger "humanitarian crisis."
Conservative Latinos plan to hold an "unprecedented gathering" in Boulder, Colorado, the site of the CNBC presidential debate on Oct. 28, to counter anti-Latino perceptions sparked by GOP front-runner Donald Trump.
Despite previously supporting the call for immigration reform, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., will reportedly not allow votes for such reform legislation during the remaining tenure of Barack Obama’s presidency if he is elected House Speaker, .
Following the recent rapprochement between the United States and Cuba, U.S. air carriers are eager to resume commercial flights to the Caribbean destination. But Republican presidential hopeful and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie wants no such flights to depart from the Garden State.
Some four months after announcing his 2016 White House bid, still little-known former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee ended his presidential campaign on Friday.
In light of the recent nuclear tensions involving Pakistan and India, U.S. President Barack Obama met up with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Thursday, at the White House in Washington in the hopes of limiting Pakistan's nuclear weapon program.
Hillary Clinton endured hours of sharp questioning by House lawmakers leading a select House committee investigating the Benghazi attacks in 2012 that led to the deaths of American ambassador Christopher Stevens and three fellow Americans.
President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned and personal speech addressing the national health epidemic of prescription drug and heroin addiction, which is killing more Americans per year than automobile crashes.
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For the first time in months, Republican front-runner Donald Trump has taken a significant drop in the 2016 presidential race, falling second place to Ben Carson in Iowa, according to a new poll.
House lawmakers have called U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to meet them for a meeting on discussing plans to stop gun violence in minority communities.
CNBC on Thursday unveiled the 10 White House hopefuls that will be invited to its Oct. 28 GOP presidential debate, set to take place at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.
Hillary Clinton is the prime beneficiary of Joe Biden's decision not to join the 2016 White House race, as polls had consistently shown that the vice president would have siphoned most of his support from the former secretary of state.
Immigrant-rights advocates have long criticized the terms "illegal" and “alien” immigrant, and one congressman is taking the lead, on a federal level, against the "offensive and inflammatory" language toward immigrants.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faced a key moment in her 2016 presidential campaign on Thursday, as she fielded questions from the congressional committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which occurred during her tenure as the nation's top diplomat.
Many Democrats may belittle Donald Trump, but Republicans apparently take the candidacy of the real-estate mogul, and current presidential front-runner quite seriously, a new poll suggests.
During a press conference Tuesday evening, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., answered the call to run for the House of Representatives' Speaker position to replace outgoing Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who is set to resign at the end of the month.
