Bernie Sanders' ever-increasing poll numbers neither surprise nor threaten her, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton said on Jan. 14; rather, they will make the race for their party's 2016 White House nomination "pretty exciting."
The fate of 12 Marines remains unclear after two U.S. military helicopters apparently collided and went missing off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Oahu late on Jan. 14, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
National GOP front-runner Donald Trump and Iowa favorite Ted Cruz clashed over issues as ephemeral as "New York values" and as practical as Cruz's Canadian birth, as they each sought to gain an advantage in the Jan. 14 Republican presidential debate hosted by the Fox Business Channel.
Less than a month after dropping his own White House bid, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham on Jan. 15 endorsed his former rival Jeb Bush while taking shots at the GOP's current front-runner, Donald Trump.
Venezuela's opposition on Jan. 14 lost the supermajority it had won in the country's Dec. 6 legislative elections, deciding to cave to a Supreme Tribunal ruling preventing three of its lawmakers from being sworn in.
Democratic White House hopefuls Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley are readying for their party's next presidential debate, which is set to take place on Jan. 17 at the Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina.
With the fever over Powerball's historic jackpot slowly subsiding, those still hoping to kick off the year as brand new millionaires may be consoled by the fact that a new Mega Millions drawing is just around the corner.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is catching up to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in the critical early-caucus race in Iowa, a new poll by the state's largest newspaper revealed.
The largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history will likely be split among three lucky Powerball players after winning tickets for the grand prize of an estimated $1.6 billion were sold in California, Florida and Tennessee, according to lottery officials in the Golden State.
Amnesty International slammed the Mexican government for what it described as the "complete lack of will by state and federal authorities" to properly investigate the disappearance of thousands of people, including 43 students who vanished in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, two years ago.
A mass killing in the central Honduran city of Comayagua left at least six people dead on Jan. 9, and the authorities believe the massacre is probably drug-related.
Cuba - the country with the oldest population and highest legal abortion rate in all of Latin America - is now encouraging young couples to have children and reverse what is increasingly viewed as the communist country's dire demographic situation.
GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump and his Democratic counterpart, Hillary Clinton, have both successfully clung to their leads in the latest election poll conducted by NBC News and SurveyMonkey.
Vice President Joe Biden this week praised Bernie Sanders' views on income inequality, while noting that Hillary Clinton was "relatively new" to the issue, before quickly rolling back his comments after they were interpreted as an endorsement of the Vermont senator.
The largest lottery prize in U.S. history is drawing some attention north of the border, and many Canadians seem to have noticed that the Powerball jackpot's $1.4 billion converts to a neat $2 billion in their local currency.
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Jan. 11 broke with the Obama administration and criticized the recent raids carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which she said worsened an already tense situation.
President Barack Obama is set to deliver his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night, and experts believe he will use the opportunity to try to define his legacy and set the tone for the next president.
Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush is going after Donald Trump in a new online video that features a South Carolina diner owner who claims that the GOP front-runner has shown a lack of sensitivity toward disabled Americans.
The mother of fugitive Texas teenager Ethan Couch is seeking a reduction of her $1 million bond after being charged with hindering the apprehension of a felon in the headline-grabbing "affluenza" case.
Often dubbed "the world's greatest deliberative body," the U.S. Senate often functions like a high school, and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is the kid who does not show up for class, GOP presidential hopeful Chris Christie quipped on Jan. 11.
Actor Sean Penn's interview with Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán - an encounter believed to have led to the Mexican drug lord's capture - was the talk of the night on Jan. 10 at the Golden Globe awards ceremony in Beverly Hills, California.
GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump is not letting up on his suggestion that Ted Cruz's Canadian birth would lead to trouble if the Texas senator were elected to the White House.
The U.S. Department of State on Jan. 8 released the latest batch of emails from Hillary Clinton's private email account, which the former secretary was forced to make public under a court order.
