As the Obama administration cheered “the worker wins” from a newly a ounced expansion of overtime pay, the directive drew a fierce backlash Wednesday from Republicans and the business community -- amid wa ings that the move could backfire and hurt workers in the end. “These rules are a career killer...

Mark De Simone was a Democrat from District 11. (AZleg.gov) JUNEAU, Alaska – A man believed to be a former Arizona Democrat state legislator who has spent the last month as a day laborer in Alaska's capital city has been accused of killing a man in a hunting party after a day of drinking. Mark De Si...

At left, an image of one of the mold-affected rooms at Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital. Veterans living at a long-term care facility in a Chicago-area VA hospital are pleading for congressional intervention over being forced to live the past 10 months with black mold growing in their housing complex. ...

On April 13th, 2004 Melissa Stockwell’s life changed in an instant. While serving in Baghdad, the 24 year old was critically injured by a roadside bomb. The retired first lieutenant lost her left leg, becoming the first female U.S. service member to lose a limb in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Stockwell ...

This undated file photo shows the Environmental Protection Agency sign. (AP) The Environmental Protection Agency was forced to pay $55,000 to get an employee to retire because the EPA was unable to fire him, even though he was a convicted child molester who also imitated a police officer, officials ...

Be ie Sanders just won't go away -- and that's a growing problem for Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party as the front-ru er once again failed Tuesday to score the decisive victory needed to put the Vermont senator in her rear-view mirror and tu her full attention to Donald Trump. Sanders easily...

The American flag that goalie Jim Craig wrapped around his shoulders after the U.S. Miracle on Ice victory at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics is on the auction block. The flag is one of 19 items in ''The Jim Craig `Miracle on Ice' Collection,'' which also includes Craig's Olympic gold medal, th...

Be ie Sanders just won't go away -- and that's a growing problem for Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party as the front-ru er once again failed Tuesday to score the decisive victory needed to put the Vermont senator in her rear-view mirror and tu her full attention to Donald Trump. Sanders easily...

Sen. Be ie Sanders won Oregon's Democratic presidential primary Tuesday night while front-ru er Hillary Clinton appeared to have notched a narrow victory in Kentucky, a split decision preventing the former secretary of state from tu ing her full attention and resources to battling Donald Trump. The ...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is wanted by the Inte ational Criminal COurt for crimes against humanity, but the EU thinks he can be a partner. (Reuters0 European Union members plotted secretly in March to have African dictators, including accused war criminal and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashi...

Donald Trump, in an extensive interview with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, responded to critics of his barbed campaign style by saying he never would have been successful in the primary race if he had acted “presidential” and held back on hitting his political rivals – while declaring that if he doesn’t wi...

Sen. Be ie Sanders on Tuesday night won the Oregon Democratic Primary but remained deadlocked with party front-ru er Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, in a too-close-to-call race that will likely keep their contest going into the July convention. The Associated Press called the Oregon race for Sanders ab...

Dec. 21, 2015: The Exxon logo is displayed agove the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) shortly after the opening bell in New York. (Reuters) Two Republican atto eys general have come out fighting against a sweeping investigation into whether ExxonMobil misled the public on global warming, ...

Donald Trump, in an extensive interview with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, responded to critics of his barbed campaign style by saying he never would have been successful in the primary race if he had acted “presidential” and held back on hitting his political rivals – while declaring that if he doesn’t wi...

EXCLUSIVE: Relentless attacks on American military perso el at the height of the Iraq war made the U.S. intelligence community confront a dire problem: They needed real-time intelligence to take Al Qaeda off the battlefield and dismantle its bomb-making factories. This realization was the start of a...

A child-welfare law passed by Congress nearly four decades ago specifically to protect Native American children and preserve their cultural heritage is under attack from critics who claim the law is putting children in potentially dangerous situations that have led to abuse — and even death. Enacted...

The GOP-led House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday approved a plan to require the Library of Congress to describe undocumented people in the United States as “illegal immigrants” -- after the institution earlier this year removed the term “illegal alien” from search terms and cataloging. The libr...

EXCLUSIVE: Relentless attacks on American military perso el at the height of the Iraq war made the U.S. intelligence community confront a dire problem: They needed real-time intelligence to take Al Qaeda off the battlefield and dismantle its bomb-making factories. This realization was the start of a...