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With the effects of climate change mounting, there will be more and more people displaced by the environmental conditions.

Democrats are taking the president-elect to task for what they call several controversial and unqualified White House administration appointments.

The likely next attorney general could reverse most U.S. efforts to legalize pot.

Pentagon finalized a classified security assessment for President-elect Donald Trump who has vowed to ramp up U.S. defense spending.

The Indian prime minister saw a surge in positive votes in the last two-three weeks of the poll, leaving behind contenders like Julian Assange and Donald Trump.

Sen. Dick Durbin says he hopes the bipartisan legislation will be ready before the inauguration.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani called the bill a violation of the Iran nuclear deal and also warned the U.S. of a “prompt response” if the sanctions against Tehran were extended.

While Americans celebrate the unemployment rate's nine-year low, the labor force participation rate continues to lag.

With the late Justice Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat still vacant, and three other justices far above retirement age, President-elect Donald Trump could soon reshape the country's highest court.

President-elect Donald Trump also wished his Philippine counterpart Rodrigo Duterte “success” in his controversial war on drugs that led to at least 2,300 deaths since June 2016.

Four major cities will remove diesel cars by 2025, while U.S. local leaders at the C40 Mayors Summit called on Donald Trump to address climate change.

A University of Nevada, Las Vegas instructor's Facebook post went viral Thursday when he appeared to suggest he'd turn in undocumented immigrant students to federal authorities.

According to an inmate's lawyer, the general mood in the detention center has been gloomy since election night.

The president-elect has reportedly made his defense secretary choice, but remains a ways away from picking a secretary of state.

House Republicans have voted 60 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act since it was enacted but now the trick is to transition to something else without ripping coverage away from 20 million Americans.

President Barack Obama's relatively conservative fiscal year 2017 defense budget met resistance from a Congress seeking to raise troops' salaries by 2.1 percent next year.

Civil liberties groups predict that the FBI will now have expanded surveillance powers that potentially violate the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was spearheading a bill this week that would defend the rights and benefits undocumented youth receive. But he wasn't alone.

The first lady welcomed the national Christmas tree when a horse-drawn carriage transported the 19-foot Balsam fir from Wisconsin to the White House on Friday.

The South Carolina Republican says he thinks Congress would approve legislation protecting "DACA kids" overwhelmingly.

California tax collectors already are laying the groundwork for 2018 when legalized recreational use of marijuana kicks in.