Senator Ted Cruz said Lynch has not shown how she would be substantially different from current Attorney General Eric Holder.
Conservatives' insistence on continuing the immigration fight means that Homeland Security funding is still set to run out on Friday.
President Obama is endorsing rules that would force brokers who control $11 trillion in Americans’ retirement savings to act in their clients’ best interests.
Republicans in Congress have argued that DHS funding must be tied to a reversal of Obama's executive order to protect 5 million undocumented immigrants.
The meeting included for the first time U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi.
The U.S. administration has "put policy in front of American citizens' lives," says Carl Mueller, the father of the late aid worker Kayla Mueller.
Negotiations on Iran's controversial nuclear program have struggled agree a political framework by the Mar. 31 deadline for talks.
One of the leading contenders as a Republican presidential candidate in 2016 says the question is irrelevant.
The tentative five-year accord would end a labor dispute that had disrupted major trade routes for months.
China has consistently disputed India's claim over Arunachal Pradesh, which it refers to as south Tibet.
The Defense Secretary had previously said that he may reconsider President Obama's timetable for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan.
An unnamed official from the U.S. Central Command claimed that ISIS was "losing ground every day" in Iraq.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said his plan for immigration reform is detailed in his new book, which he was signing at a bookstore on Wednesday.
American allies on the ground in Iraq aren’t getting weapons, and some of them are even defecting to ISIS.
The program will launch in the fall to coincide with the National Parks Service's 100th birthday.
While a majority of Americans favor increasing the minimum wage, most also think government doesn't do enough to help the middle class.
The U.S. government accused Israel of attempting to mislead the public by "cherry-picking" facts.
President Obama addressed a White House summit on countering extremism, saying ISIS and al Qaeda aren't religious leaders, but terrorists.
The president has defended the constitutionality of his executive order, even after a federal judge issued a temporary injunction.
Leaders in U.S. cities have adopted measures that are intended to signal to the undocumented community that it’s safe to come out of the shadows without the fear of being reported to federal authorities.
Jeb Bush came out in favor of the National Security Administration's metadata collection program, which he said protects against terrorism.
In an op-ed in the L.A. Times, President Obama said the U.S. has to work harder to understand the Muslim American community.