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The president has a history of prioritizing diversity hires — and nominees that make it hard for Republicans to vote against.

The Alabama House is debating on proposed legislation that would prevent cities from setting local minimum wages.The Republican-backed bill is on the…

The president said there is plenty of time for him to nominate a candidate to succeed Antonin Scalia and for the Senate to consider the nomination. He says the Constitution is clear that is his job.

Drivers may start to see an uptick in gas prices, but the cause won't be OPEC, analysts say. Prices will drift up with a switch to pricier summer blends, not because OPEC gets its act together.

Young adults were more likely to get in trouble with Adderall and its generic form than they were Ritalin. The drugs have a reputation as helping to enhance mental performance.

The #catmageddon ad pretty much blew the doors off the Grammys. Now the question is whether the fact that secondhand smoke can cause cancer in cats will persuade young adults to stop smoking.

Life tenure was meant to insulate justices from politics, but the clash building between President Obama and the GOP-controlled Senate after Antonin Scalia's death shows how that hasn't panned out.

A campaign ad by Sen. Ted Cruz is using Donald Trump's support of eminent domain – when the government takes private land for public or commercial use – against him.

On its final voyage, Germany's Wilhelm Gustloff carried soldiers and thousands of civilians, many of them children. Young adult author Ruta Sepetys revisits the ship's 1945 sinking in Salt to the Sea.

For decades, coal was king of electricity generation in the U.S., but that's changing. Across the country, coal power plants are being replaced with generators that run on cleaner burning natural gas.