New York State this week officially implemented tougher penalties to combat fraudulent immigration assistance services in an effort to protect the state's immigrant population.
Rather than mandating all restaurant employees to wash their hands after they finish using the bathroom, Republican Sen.Thom Tillis of North Carolina announced that he believes restaurants should be allowed to opt out of hand-washing policies.
Speaking to supporters in Caracas before meeting with Ernesto Samper, the Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called for a relationship with the United States based on diplomacy and demanded an end to what he sees as a U.S. backed plan to destabilize his government.
The U.S. State Department announced this week additional visa restrictions for human rights violators from Venezuela. Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro has since criticized the U.S. government's decision.
Benjamin Netanyahu has no plans to cancel a planned March 3 speech before a joint session of Congress, which has ruffled feathers in the United States weeks before the Israeli prime minister's arrival.
With the 2015 tax season being the first year for people to report their health insurance information on their tax returns, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week announced efforts to ease the process.
U.S. Senate Democrats have blocked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS)' 2015 fiscal year budget, and President Barack Obama and the GOP are voicing their opinions on the latest gridlock over immigration.
Today Tom Wheeler, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, put to rest any doubt that the agency charged with regulating the infrastructure of the Internet plans to do so based on the strongest legal foundation available. It's victory for Net Neutrality advocates, to the chagrin of Internet service providers.
Sen. Marco Rubio conducted his first Senate Foreign Relations Western Hemisphere Subcommittee hearing this week and focused heavily and critically on the renewed diplomatic relations between Cuba and the U.S.
On the heels of outbreaks of illness and contamination linked to chicken, eggs and cantaloupe, President Barack Obama is advocating for the creation of a new federal agency that would be entrusted with keeping the nation's food supply safe.
The United States has dismissed recent allegations by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro that accuse U.S. Vice President Joe Biden of conspiring to overthrow his government as "patently false" and a ploy to distract attention away from Maduro's abuse of power.
The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill, which includes amendments that would block President Barack Obama's immigration executive actions.
In an interview, Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham proposed that the U.S. send thousands of troops to win the fight against Islamic extremist group ISIS. Now, presidential hopeful Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has expressed the same sentiment.
Hillary Clinton continues to dominate polls as the potential Democratic presidential candidate, but it is Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker who may surprise the Republican presidential candidate race.
Even though Hillary Clinton hasn't officially said she will run for president in 2016, for many observers her announcement is just a matter of time. When exactly the presumed Democratic frontrunner should formalize her ambitions has caused debate among her advisers.
Cuban-American politicians and local officials in Florida are calling for reconsideration of the 1966 American policy giving Cubans broader protections than other immigrants arriving in the United States receive.
