No less an entity than the U.N. is wading into the U.S. housing affordability crisis. In a pair of letters to the U.S. government and Blackstone Group, Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, calls out the role of private equity in the housing market and blasts the federal government for failing to protect the right of people to housing.
The U.S. is sending astronauts back to the moon within the next five years, Vice President Mike Pence says. Pence, who has championed President Trump's new Space Force wing of the Air Force, made the announcement Tuesday morning at a National Space Council meeting in Alabama.
Deriding its "unachievable goals," former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announced his opposition to the "Green New Deal" resolution introduced in Congress, becoming the first major 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to rebuff the audacious progressive proposal.
The Federal Trade Commission is putting large internet providers including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and T-Mobile under new scrutiny.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced his plan to sign legislation allowing terminally ill patients to seek life-ending medication. Once the bill is signed, New Jersey will join six other states and the District of Columbia that have similar laws.
Five years after Colorado first legalized marijuana, a new study shows pot's bad effects are sending more people to the emergency room.
Defense attorneys asked a federal judge Tuesday to grant a new trial to the Mexican drug lord known as "El Chapo," saying jurors improperly followed media coverage of the sensational drug conspiracy case.
Patriots owner Robert Kraft waived an upcoming court appearance in his Florida prostitution case, pleaded not guilty to all charges and is requested a jury trial, according to a court document filed Tuesday.
An effort by Congressional Democrats to override President Trump's veto on a resolution that would have overturned his national emergency proclamation failed in the Democratic-controlled House on Tuesday.
The Trump administration filed a brief Tuesday to invalidate the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, in a significant shift from its initial policy that only a portion of a law should be overturned.
Democratic presidential hopeful and California Sen. Kamala Harris has unveiled a new plan to increase teacher pay by $13,500 nationwide.
Borrowing a page from ecommerce, McDonald's is going high-tech to make menu recommendations. That goal is behind the fast-food giant's move this week to fork out more than $300 million to buy Israeli technology company Dynamic Yield, its biggest acquisition in 20 years.
Health officials in Rockland County, New York have declared a state of emergency amid an ongoing measles outbreak. The county is prohibiting unvaccinated children from going out in public spaces for 30 days, CBS New York reports.
Purdue Pharma has reached a settlement with the state of Oklahoma over claims the maker of the painkiller Oxycontin helped fuel an opioid epidemic that killed thousands of Oklahomans.
Secretary of State of Mike Pompeo announced refinements to the administration's Mexico City policy, a ban on federal funding for organizations that provide abortion services, in order to "protect the least amongst us." While the State Department will continue to…
The Supreme Court is so far declining to stop the Trump administration from enforcing its ban on bump stock devices, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns. The ban took effect on Tuesday. Gun rights groups asked the…
The Supreme Court is returning to arguments over whether the political task of redistricting can be overly partisan.
NASA scrapped a planned historic spacewalk by two women astronauts, citing a lack of available spacesuits that would fit them at the International Space Station.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are holding a rare hearing on gun control Tuesday morning to discuss so-called "red flag" laws enacted in several states to allow courts to issue orders confiscating the guns of individuals who are deemed to be a risk to others or themselves.
The FDA is meeting for a second day on Tuesday to address the possible risks of breast implants after the agency reported last fall that 457 cases of cancer have been detected in women with breast implants.
Yale University became the first school to officially rescind the admission of a student linked to the college admissions scandal on Monday.
A federal judge in Kentucky has cautioned lawyers to watch their language in their bitter legal feud over abortion.
A man accused of threatening to kidnap and kill a United States senator and his family is scheduled to change his plea Tuesday in federal court in Phoenix.
In the first test of its kind, the Pentagon on Monday carried out a "salvo" intercept of an unarmed missile soaring over the Pacific, using two interceptor missiles launched from underground silos in Southern California.