WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court, rejecting the advice of the Obama administration, will consider whether to limit the federal housing discrimination law to cases of actual and proven bias against blacks or Latinos.
The justices voted to hear a ...
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- The Obama administration Monday lifted a veil of secrecy surrounding the status of the detainees at Guantanamo, for the first time publicly naming the four dozen captives it defined as indefinite detainees -- men ...
WASHINGTON -- The cost of health coverage under Obamacare remains one the biggest mysteries of the nation's health-care overhaul.
But nagging cost questions will slowly be answered this summer as insurers and state officials set 2014 health plan ...
SEATTLE -- Don't expect kids to have a lot easier access to pot under Washington state's new law allowing adults to possess an ounce of marijuana.
Teens already report that they can score weed pretty easily. Last year, 66 percent of the state's ...
MIAMI -- More than 21/2 years since Miami police shot and killed seven black men within seven months, and despite pleas for action from a member of Congress, the U.S. Justice Department hasn't finished its civil rights investigation of the city ...
WASHINGTON -- White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said Sunday that "the scope and scale" of assistance to Syrian rebels will expand, based on evidence that the Assad government is gaining ground in the protracted civil war and that it may ...