Senior editor at The Atlantic and conservative pundit David Frum caused a mini-tweet storm late last week when he suggested that California's immigration population is at least partly to blame for California's epic drought and subsequent ongoing water crisis.
In addition to taking historic steps to normalize U.S. and Cuban relations, President Barack Obama may become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Havana in decades.
An 11-year-old boy made history at the American River College in Sacramento in California on Wednesday by becoming the youngest person to graduate from the school.
More than a year after he was gunned down by police in a darkened in the stairwell of a darkened East New York housing project, the family of unarmed Akai Gurley has filed a wrongful-death suit naming the city and New York Police Department as primary defendants.
President Barack Obama has moved one stepped closer to the passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive trade deal currently being negotiated between the U.S. and 11 Latin American and Asian countries.
Two men in Southern California were taken into federal custody on Thursday after allegedly conspiring to travel to the Middle East to join the ranks with the Islamic State, an extreme Muslim terror group.
Hundreds of demonstrators held a peaceful rally in Olympia, Washington Thursday evening following the shooting of two unarmed black men by a white cop.
Secretary Julian Castro, serving as head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, could be the country's next vice president, making him the first Latino to take the position in the country's history. However, Sec. Castro does not seem so sure it will happen.
Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced on Thursday that a grand jury has decided to indict six city police officers in the death of Freddie Gray.
A number of musicians Politico dubbed "aging rappers" have endorsed Hillary Clinton in her 2016 White House run. 50 Cent and Waka Flocka Flama have been the latest rappers to support the former First Lady.
A 57-year-old former Virginia lawmaker on Thursday announced that he plans to marry the teenager whose stint as a receptionist in his legislative office ended in a sex scandal and jail sentence for the Democrat.
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton is facing additional scrutiny over as much as $26 million payments the Clinton Foundation received for speeches given by the former first lady, her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and the couple's daughter, Chelsea Clinton.
A salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 50 people in nine states may be linked to raw tuna in sushi, according to an investigation by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Five of the world's largest banks --including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, and the Royal Bank of Scotland-- have been fined approximately $5.7 billion for conspiring to manipulate the price of U.S. dollars and euros exchanged in the foreign currency market.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul grabbed headlines after he spent 10 and a half hours on the Senate floor on Wednesday arguing why Congress should put an end to the NSA surveillance program.
