WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A custody battle involving the "best interests" of a 3-year-old Cherokee girl will be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court, an issue spanning the rights of adoptive parents and the desire to preserve Native American families within tribes.
The U.S. Supreme Court will review a ruling that sent a South Carolina couple's adopted Native American daughter back to her biological father in Oklahoma.
Ami Bera, a California-based Indian-American physician, was on Friday sworn in as member of the United States House of Representatives, becoming only the third from the community to enter the Congress.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed legislation called the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, the bill to undo or delay much of the fiscal cliff, according to reports citing a statement from the White House.
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With less than four days remaining until American reaches the edge of its self-imposed “fiscal cliff,” two local Republican lawmakers are urging President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats to take up two bills the GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed in August 2012.
The real issue in the frantic final flailing over the fiscal cliff isn’t whether Washington can balance its books. It’s whether blue America and red America are capable of, or even interested in, mediating their differences. The evidence is growing more discouraging.
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - First-term Republican U.S. Representative Tim Scott will fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by arch-conservative Jim DeMint of South Carolina, becoming the only African-American in the Senate and the first since President Barack Obama. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley on Monday chose Scott to replace their fellow Republican and become the first ...
Daniel Inouye, an American of Japanese ancestry who lost his right arm fighting for his country in World War II and went on to represent Hawaii in Congress for its first half century as a state, has died. He was 88.
Immigration reform is likely to be spotlighted next year, as government seeks to fix a system that's widely viewed as broken. The people at the center of the debate -- some who have been living and working in the U.S. without legal permission for years -- are increasingly making their voices heard.
