Fast food workers across the country are participating in what could be the biggest strike in a nearly year-long campaign for higher wages. Strikes are taking

An American who spent 26 months as a hostage in Iran has found a new cause: exposing the conditions for prisoners in solitary confinement in California prisons.

The White House is fielding a fresh round of criticism from conservatives after it delayed one key provision of the Affordable Care Act.

Ahead of two major decisions on same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court, another Republican politician is publicly supporting the unions between gay couples.

President Obama announced Wednesday his nomination of Samantha Power as the next ambassador to the United Nations and Susan Rice as his national security advise

An Arizona mother of seven being held on drug charges in Mexico is pleading for authorities to set her free.

She’s the main Disney character in what some film critics have called the first feminist princess movie. But now she’s getting a makeover.

Gun control advocates are taking a page from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) as they plot their strategy forward.

The group EMILY’s List, which works to elect progressive women to office, launched a new campaign Thursday with the goal of putting a woman in the White House.

Congressman Adam Schiff defended the FBI’s handling of the Tsarvaev case on Jansing & Co. Thursday.