Hurricane Arthur strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane, with winds increasing to 100 mph, makes landfall late Thursday night on North Carolina disrupting Fourth of July holiday plans for the region.
A U.S. Congressman was denied access to a Human Health and Services (HHS) facility of his home state which currently is housing up to 1,200 unaccompanied children that entered the U.S. illegally.
A U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program that snoops on foreign citizens suspected of terrorism is legal and effective and does what Congress intended it to do, a government oversight board said.
In trying to save money, the United States’ nuclear sites are increasingly becoming more vulnerable to attack, according to a government watchdog group.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing an American manufacturer that fired a group of Hispanic and Asian employees because they don’t speak English on the job, according to Judicial Watch.
More than 100 protesters blocked three busloads of immigrant families from reaching a federal processing facility in Southern California.
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) brought a lawsuit against the White House last week which accused the administration of unconstitutional overreach of its executive authority, to which the President mockingly responded saying, “So sue me.” Later in the day, President Obama asked his cabinet to search for ways the White House could use its executive authority to bypass Congress and push his agenda without the legislative body.
Amazingly, Americans from both sides of the isle can agree on something — to be protected from terrorism does not mean they need to give up their privacy and freedom to be safe. An overwhelming 74 percent of Americans feel this way according to a new report published by the Pew Research Center.
The indictment of Ahmed Abu Khatallah, a suspect arrested in Libya earlier this month for the killing of a U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and thee other Americans, details a calculated attack on the U.S. Diplomatic mission and the CIA annex in Benghazi. This contradicts the Obama Administration’s version of a ‘spontaneous’ riot took place on September 11 due to a anti-Muslim YouTube video.
A federal judge has instructed the IRS to appear before the court July 11 to explain why the IRS shouldn’t be required to allow outside experts evaluate whether the emails of former IRS employees are truly lost.
A federal judge ruled that Kentucky’s law that recognized marriage as being between one man and one woman violated the constitutional rights of same-sex couples, however he placed a stay on his own decision, in effect placing his ruling on hold until the conclusion of the appeal process.
Less than one percent, or 330,000, of the 2.9 million cases which had data discrepancies when signing up for Obamacare have been fixed, potentially jeopardizing health care for millions who signed up under the Affordable Care Act, the government’s health care fraud watchdog said.
Except for the voters who elected him, the sheriff of Bossier Parish said it’s not anyone else’s business when or where he prays, according to USA Today.
Consumers in the United States are paying nearly 13 percent more for pork products than they were this time last year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Prices will continue to rise late into this year economists predict, due in part, to a deadly pig virus.
Across the nation, there have been more than 26,000 wildfires since January, compared to 22,000 for all of 2013. So far this year, California has been scorched as a total of 3,300 wildfires have been reported so far — triple its average and there’s no let up in sight.
President Barack Obama announced he’s ready to “act on his own” on immigration reform as he announced plans for using his executive power to make sweeping changes to the nation’s immigration system.
In a 5-4 ruling the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties saying that corporations cannot be forced to provide contraception coverage for their employees. The court determined that federal law protects the two families from being forced to act contrary to their beliefs.
President Barack Obama will ask Congress for $2 billion in emergency funds to respond to the surge of undocumented children and adults entering the United States illegally.
Each year cows, pigs and horses are cloned and bred in the United States.
U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) addressed the humanitarian crisis of thousands unaccompanied illegal kids along the U.S. border as an “opportunity.”