Jeremy White

In a sign of progress towards reforming America's immigrant detention system, officials have launched an innovative new facility in Texas.

Millions of Americans in low-lying coastal cities could see more flooding in coming years as rising temperatures drive up sea levels, according to a new study.

Mitt Romney's southern struggles shouldn't be too big of a problem if Romney secures the nomination, as seems likely. Far-right voters are not about to vote for President Barack Obama, no matter who his opponent is.

With spiraling gas prices figuring to play a prominent role in the 2012 election, voters trust President Barack Obama more than Republican lawmakers to tame prices at the pump.

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is broadcasting its confidence heading into potentially decisive primaries in Alabama and Mississippi, issuing an email that dismissed outright Rick Santorum's chances of winning the nomination.

The White House on Monday released guidelines for the state health insurance marketplaces that are vital to the U.S. health care reform law.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum sought to distance himself from his GOP opponents with an op-ed tying Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney to radical environmentalists sounding the alarm on climate change.

An American soldier's alleged massacre of 16 Afghan civilians has inflamed anger against U.S. troops at a time when the American public -- increasingly including Republicans -- is tiring of America's decade-long presence in Afghanistan.

In a June speech outlining his timetable for U.S. troops' exit, President Barack Obama vowed that the withdrawal would come at a time the United States found itself in a position of strength in Afghanistan.

A series of earthquakes near Youngstown, Ohio were probably spurred by a natural gas drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, according to oil and gas regulators.

A federal appeals court has blocked parts of an Alabama immigration law that restrict business transactions with undocumented immigrants, further diluting a law that was considered the toughest in the country.

A Minnesota school district that came to crystallize a national debate about anti-gay bullying has agreed to institute broad new protections for students.

Rick Santorum isn't the only presidential hopeful encouraged by Mitt Romney's tepid showing on Super Tuesday. Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod told NBC News that the results reveal Romney's enduring faults.

Mitt Romney's failure to secure a decisive victory on Super Tuesday underscores lingering questions about his candidacy and almost guarantees the Republican presidential nomination will stretch on.

Super Tuesday is upon us, with 10 states and 419 delegates at stake. Check in throughout the night as the International Business Times' politics team provides updates, insights and analysis from across the race.

Attorney General Eric Holder supplied the legal justification Monday for the decision to kill American-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki , rebutting criticism that the view of executive power held by President Barack Obama's administration is overly broad.

Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, in a speech Monday, is expected to call on President Barack Obama's administration to authorize U.S. air strikes against the Syrian army, which is brutally cracking down on opponents of President Bashar al-Assad.

A protracted battle for the Republican presidential nomination has damaged how voters perceive the individual candidates and the Republican party in general, according to an NBC/WSJ poll.

Getting the government out of education has become a recurring theme during the 2012 Republican presidential primary, and Rick Santorum has embraced it by emphasizing his decision to home school his children.

President Barack Obama waded again into the controversy over a mandate that health insurance plans cover contraception by calling and thanking Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student whom conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh labeled a slut for backing the policy.

Florida's legislature advanced a bill on Thursday that would bar domestic courtrooms from considering foreign law, a move many have interpreted as the latest contribution to a burgeoning national movement to ban Sharia law.

Rick Santorum's campaign has argued that Mitt Romney's narrow victory in the Michigan primary was not a win, but the people who award delegates think otherwise -- and Santorum is not happy about it.

The Republican presidential primary could grind on for months before the GOP anoints a candidate, but the Obama re-election campaign is not standing idly by.

Another 26 states and the District of Columbia have requested a federal waiver from parts of the No Child Left Behind law, bringing the total number of exemption-seekers to 38 and underscoring the widespread view that the landmark 2001 education overhaul has been a failure.

Latinos, a large and growing voting bloc in several swing states, could play a pivotal role in deciding the U.S. presidential election. A raft of tough new state immigration laws, combined with rhetoric from its candidates, could hurt the Republican Party in November.

House Republicans advanced legislation on Tuesday that would significantly curtail the federal government's role in education.

President Barack Obama reasserted his authority over detainee policy on Tuesday, issuing waivers that exempt broad categories of terrorism suspects from being held in military custody.

Mitt Romney's primary victories in Arizona and Michigan played out along now-familiar lines, with Romney faring better among moderate voters and those who said unseating President Obama was their highest priority.

Iran's foreign minister insisted that the country's nuclear program is not intended to make weapons and called for a resumption of talks, while speaking to the United Nations on Wednesday.