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After the recent Supreme Court decision to provide religious exemptions for businesses, major gay rights activists withdrew support for the current Employment Non-Discrimination Act (EDNA).

President Barack Obama formally requested $3.7 billion in emergency spending from Congress to deal with the illegal immigration crisis.

After facing criticism, the White House is no longer seeking legal authority to returning illegal immigrant children back to their home countries.

The Centers for Disease Control announced Tuesday the surprise discovery of smallpox, in unused portions of an FDA lab.

The border crisis continues to escalate as illegal immigration protesters on both sides of the debate battle over the issue in a full-blown crisis. So far this year 0ver 50,000 illegal immigrant children have already entered the U.S.

Ordinary Internet users, American and non-American alike, far outnumber legally targeted foreigners in the communications intercepted by the National Security Agency from U.S. digital networks, according to a four-month investigation by The Washington Post.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel received an email instructing them to no longer refer to illegal immigrant children as “UACs” or unaccompanied alien children, but they are to be referred solely as “unaccompanied children”, Breitbart News reported.

The Dow Jones Industrial average eclipsed 17,000 for the first time in its 118-years history bolstered by a jobs report where 288,000 jobs were added in June.

Hurricane Arthur strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane, with winds increasing to 100 mph, makes landfall late Thursday night on North Carolina disrupting Fourth of July holiday plans for the region.

A U.S. Congressman was denied access to a Human Health and Services (HHS) facility of his home state which currently is housing up to 1,200 unaccompanied children that entered the U.S. illegally.

A U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program that snoops on foreign citizens suspected of terrorism is legal and effective and does what Congress intended it to do, a government oversight board said.

In trying to save money, the United States’ nuclear sites are increasingly becoming more vulnerable to attack, according to a government watchdog group.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing an American manufacturer that fired a group of Hispanic and Asian employees because they don’t speak English on the job, according to Judicial Watch.

More than 100 protesters blocked three busloads of immigrant families from reaching a federal processing facility in Southern California.

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) brought a lawsuit against the White House last week which accused the administration of unconstitutional overreach of its executive authority, to which the President mockingly responded saying, “So sue me.” Later in the day, President Obama asked his cabinet to search for ways the White House could use its executive authority to bypass Congress and push his agenda without the legislative body.

Amazingly, Americans from both sides of the isle can agree on something — to be protected from terrorism does not mean they need to give up their privacy and freedom to be safe. An overwhelming 74 percent of Americans feel this way according to a new report published by the Pew Research Center.

The indictment of Ahmed Abu Khatallah, a suspect arrested in Libya earlier this month for the killing of a U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and thee other Americans, details a calculated attack on the U.S. Diplomatic mission and the CIA annex in Benghazi. This contradicts the Obama Administration’s version of a ‘spontaneous’ riot took place on September 11 due to a anti-Muslim YouTube video.

A federal judge has instructed the IRS to appear before the court July 11 to explain why the IRS shouldn’t be required to allow outside experts evaluate whether the emails of former IRS employees are truly lost.

A federal judge ruled that Kentucky’s law that recognized marriage as being between one man and one woman violated the constitutional rights of same-sex couples, however he placed a stay on his own decision, in effect placing his ruling on hold until the conclusion of the appeal process.

Less than one percent, or 330,000, of the 2.9 million cases which had data discrepancies when signing up for Obamacare have been fixed, potentially jeopardizing health care for millions who signed up under the Affordable Care Act, the government’s health care fraud watchdog said.