Senate negotiators cleared the last major hurdle to reaching a bipartisan immigration reform deal Saturday as labor and business groups signed off on a visa program for future low-skilled workers, according to sources familiar with the talks.
US plays down prospect of war on the peninsula as Pyongyang follows ‘state of war’ declaration with more sabre-rattling.
Farmers have been taking on mounting debt, creating an unsustainable increase in land prices and risking a crash that would ripple through our economy.
A grand jury has indicted an Atlanta Public Schools’ ex-superintendent and nearly three dozen other former administrators, teachers, principals and other educators of charges arising from a standardized test cheating scandal that rocked the system. Read what happened here.
Nearly a dozen states are courting California dairy farmers, who are hurting from high feed costs and low milk prices.
House Speaker John Boehner on Friday condemned the use of the term “wetbacks” by Rep. Don Young, one of the party’s most senior members of Congress.
The Obama administration is demanding that the U.N. General Assembly vote on an arms trade treaty opposed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) next week, abandoning its earlier insistence on consensus.
Florida legislators considering a bill to require abortionists to provide medical care to an infant who survives an abortion were shocked during a committee hearing this week when a Planned Parenthood official endorsed a right to post-birth “abortion.”
Obama is quietly moving forward on gun control. The president has used his executive powers to bolster the national background check system, jump start government research on the causes of gun violence and create a million-dollar ad campaign, likely critical of 2nd Amendment rights.
For the first time since 1981, when it dubbed sex-change operations “experimental,” bankrupt Medicare has opened the door to covering transexual operations, adding to the growing list of operations that would be allowed under Obamacare.