The White House has unveiled its plan to shut down the military prison Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on Tuesday.
The 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act can pull out the stops that make voting accessible to all Americans, notes the President.
Tunisia, long neglected by US foreign policy despite being the only country to emerge from the Arab Spring with a functional, democratic government, is set to get a major boost from a number of US initiatives.
A protester upset at the role of of money in politics landed a small helicopter on the grounds of the US Capitol in an effort to bring attention to the issue.
President Barrack Obama wants to implement a five-year health plan to reduce the use of antibiotics. His plan applies not only in the US but in a worldwide scale.
The House of Representatives failed to pass a bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security, setting off a race against time to try and fund the agency before it must shut down at midnight.
The National Football League's non-profit status is being challenged just days before the league's biggest annual event, the Super Bowl.
An Ohio bartender has been arrested on charges that he plotted to poison the Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner.
House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise gave a speech at a white supremacist convention in 2002, embroiling the Republican Party in a fresh controversy before the newly elected Congress has even sat for the first time.
The lawsuit against Barack Obama the Republican-controlled House of Representatives authorized on a party-line vote will cost taxpayers $350,000.
