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."
The mother of Freddie Gray, the man who died from a fatal spine injury while in police custody in Baltimore earlier this year, attempted to commit suicide Wednesday night.
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.
The office of a University of Washington professor who recently sued the Central Intelligence Agency was burglarized this week, in what the academic called a "suspicious" coincidence.
U.S. Secretary of Defense John Kerry recently met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Thursday. While the two leaders were discussing the steps to end the Palestinian-Israeli violence, two Palestinians apparently stabbed an Israeli civilian.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A 19-year-old Indiana University student is under arrest for attacking a Muslim woman in public. A 19-year-old Indiana University student is under arrest for attacking a Muslim woman in public.
The four-week average of initial jobless claims, a less volatile measure than the weekly figure, has fallen to a historic level, clocking in at its lowest point since December 1973.
A New York City man has filed federal suit against the city, alleging that he was forced to spend six weeks on Rikers Island simply because he fit the nondescript bill of a black suspect wearing a hoodie.
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.
