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.”
The White House is spending millions and using U.S. embassies to promote the LGBT agenda worldwide.
A Mexican military helicopter fired upon U.S. Border Patrol agents in Arizona on Thursday morning during a drug operation before returning to Mexico, according to officials.
The White House suffered its twelfth unanimous defeat since 2012 when the Supreme Court ruled against the Obama administration saying it exceeded its authority in recess appointments, suggesting the High Court has “rejected the Obama Administration’s calls for greater executive power,” Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said.
A top Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday saying that 87 percent of illegal alien children are still in immigration court without a decision as to their final status.
A former member of SEAL Team Six, Kristin Beck — formerly Senior Chief Petty Officer Christopher Beck, has become a spokesman for the White House seeking to include transgenders in the military.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Barack Obama went too far in making recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board.
The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a Massachusetts law that created buffer zones around abortion clinics violated the First Amendment.
Microsoft’s top lawyer called on Congress and the White House to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and stop the “unfettered collection of bulk data” by the government, Cnet reported.
Late Wednesday, Congressional investigators published emails from ex-IRS official Lois Lerner, which detailed her targeting a Republican Senator in 2012 for an internal audit based on an email she accidentally received.
Since October, over 52,000 illegal immigrant children have been apprehended by Border Patrol agents. While all children face deportation, it will take years before any action will be taken since federal immigration courts face a backlog of more than 360,000 cases, the Associated Press reported.
In North Carolina, Republican Governor Pat McCrory signed into law, a bill allowing student-led prayer and the ability to organize prayer groups in public school.
In a historic decision, a federal appeals court has ruled that a state’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, setting up a possible Supreme Court battle over the issue.
In an unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of privacy rights stating that police cannot search through data on a person’s cellphone without a warrant.