Even with the outcome considered a foregone conclusion, the heated battle over right-to-work legislation in the traditional union bastion of Michigan shows no sign of cooling.

The justices said they would hear cases from New York and California contesting state and federal laws that limit the definition of marriage to the union of a man and a woman.

Economists had estimated the Labor Department would report that only 86,000 jobs were created in November.

The U.S. Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act for 2013 Wednesday. The act includes legislation proposed by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand that requires the military to report on their policies to improve anti-hazing training, tracking and response.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said Wednesday he will no longer honor requests from federal authorities to detain suspected illegal immigrants arrested for low-level crimes, a reversal from his previous support of the controversial Secure Communities program. Until recently,...

House Republican leaders on Monday sent President Barack Obama a counteroffer aimed at avoiding the fiscal cliff, but it doesn’t hike tax rates on the wealthy or deal explicitly with tricky issues like the debt ceiling and the sequester. GOP leadership says the offer is based on testimony give...

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner kicked off a series of meetings with House and Senate leaders on Thursday, an attempt to break the logjam in talks over looming tax hikes and massive spending cuts to defense and domestic programs. Whether the visits by Geithner and White House’s chief legis...

BY ALINE REYNOLDS | A U.S. Army staff sergeant has been sentenced to just 15 days of hard labor and a rank demotion for bullying Danny Chen prior to the

Real gross domestic product rose at an annual rate of 2.7 percent in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported Thursday, up from an initial estimate of 2 percent.

At the top of House committees, it’s a man’s world. Not a single woman will lead any of the major House committees in the 113th Congress. After a day of meetings closed to the public, the House Republican Steering Committee announced an all-male slate of committee chairs, including 12 re...

It's common knowledge that Florida cut back on early voting in 2011 to reduce the turnout of blacks and other groups likely to vote for Democrats. But it's refreshing to see that former top Republicans in the state are now saying so out loud.

Asian-American man is showing how Arizona's immigration law affects people other than Latinos police view as 'foreign.'