“Saturday Night Live” took on gun control in a brilliant cold opening this weekend, skewering Congress’ lack of progress on the gun-control issue.
Prisoners were being moved into single cells in a bid to break their hunger strike when they fought back.
Russia released a list of alleged human rights violators after the United States passed the Magnitsky Act, but trade will keep the two together.
Canadian scientists are fighting in a free-speech minefield: Is the grass greener in the U.S. and China?
Palestine is nowhere near as successful as Israel when it comes to tech startups. Brave young entrepreneurs hope to change that.
Meghan McCain posted a Twitter rant in which she rebuked conservative pundit Ann Coulter for joking about her murder in a blog post.
Before Molly Shannon played the hand-smelling Mary Katherine Gallagher on "Saturday Night Live," she was in an NRA ad.
The background check in the Senate Democrats’ gun control bill reportedly may exclude transactions between family members.
Social Security and Medicare have been getting a lot of spotlight but uncertainty lingers over defense spending and the sequester.
For the first time in his presidency, Barack Obama has proposed to slow the rate of Social Security benefit increases.
U.S. stock index futures point to a higher open on Wednesday as markets await the release of President Obama’s 2014 budget proposal.
The Senate Republican leader says the “political left” bugged his office after a recording was made public on Tuesday.
Senators said they were near a deal on background checks, while Reid is planning a showdown vote for Thursday.
A new CNN poll shows Obama with high approval rating, but on guns and the budget deficit -- not so much.
As two senators -- one Democrat and one Republican -- work on a background check compromise, more conservative Republicans join a gun control filibuster.
Is the gun control bill doomed in Congress? Perhaps: The number of Republicans ready to oppose the Senate Democrats' measure is growing.
A group of well-known celebrities have written an open letter to President Obama, asking him to reform prisons and enact changes to the nation's drug policies.
Amid a growing GOP threat to filibuster the Senate's gun control bill, Obama goes for the heart with Sandy Hook parents as reinforcement.
Lindsey Graham is encouraged by entitlement cuts in Obama's 2014 budget, but Speaker Boehner opposes holding entitlements hostage to taxes.
President Obama released the following statement in response to the passing of former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher:
Cuba's ex-leader says situation poses "one of the most serious dangers of nuclear war" since Cuban Missile Crisis.
John Kerry is back in the Middle East, trying to restore ties between Israel and Turkey.