The Center on Budget Policy and Priorities has some ideas for reducing income inequality through state tax reform. Trump, on the other hand, plans to do the opposite on the federal level.
Craig Sager, known in part for his flamboyant outfits, died Thursday after a battle with cancer.
Dylann Roof will be sentenced for the racially-motivated murder of nine black churchgoers last year following Thursday's verdict.
Sterling Heights officials described the city as an inclusive community and noted it already hosts two mosques.
Warning: Infusing booze into hot chocolate is a guaranteed way to warm up.
Monica Crowley told reporters last month that "it would be an honor to serve in his administration."
With the holidays around the corner, the CDC has issued travel warnings in the U.S. for pregnant women.
The polar vortex has moved south and NASA has produced images to show it happening.
The oldest daughter of President-elect Donald Trump was a ubiquitous figure during the presidential campaign.
Select raw shelled pistachio products were found to contain the salmonella bacteria following a routine FDA sampling.
The Massachusetts senator plans to invoke the little-known Emoluments Clause with new legislation next month.
Papini, 34, vanished Nov. 2 while running in her neighborhood and turned up on Thanksgiving Day.
The new measure is the first major step toward outright legalization in Mexico, according to reports.
Children born through mitochondrial replacement therapy would still have the usual set of 23 chromosomes from two parents but mitochondria from a healthy donor.
Gov. Jerry Brown said he won't sit by idly if the incoming administration guts climate research by NASA.
Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown and the victim, Sylville Smith, reportedly knew each other in high school. Smith's death touched off two nights of civil unrest.
Republican lawmakers have put forth a bill that could legalize medical marijuana in Tennessee.
A survey by the Harvard School of Public Health found that pilots reported a rate of depression double that of the overall adult population.
The White House has said President Barack Obama will neither sign nor veto a bill calling for the extension of non-nuclear sanctions on Iran.
The teachers are from separate schools and counties but both came under scrutiny this month.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen said Donald Trump's policies could cause the economy to overheat, but she vowed to stay involved.
Wind speeds may reach up to 70 miles an hour in some areas of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Longtime Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has a decades-old history of mocking the president-elect's hand size.
Yasmin Seweid reported being verbally assaulted and called a terrorist by three white men on the 6 train in New York earlier in December.
Though most economists have warned that Trump's leadership may have a negative impact on the job market, the president-elect has boasted of his ability to strengthen the labor force.
A CBS News poll published Thursday indicates Americans don't have much confidence in Donald Trump's cabinet picks.
Across the nation, drug use among teens is at an all-time low, according to a survey released this week by the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse.
"On Bill of Rights Day, we celebrate the long arc of progress that transformed our Nation from a fledgling and fragile democracy to one in which civil rights are the birthright of all Americans," President Barack Obama wrote in a proclamation.
The gunman was identified by police as Markeith Loyd, 41, Dixon's ex-boyfriend. He fled after the shooting and was considered armed and dangerous.
According to local reports, the 51-year-old faked to be a suburban Fort Worth police officer in 2014 when real police arrived at a domestic disturbance scene.