Ken Stanford

Immigrant youth activists called on leading Senate Democrats on Tuesday to demand that President Barack Obama order a halt to most deportations of people living in the U.S. illegally.

You may have to be at least 18 to buy cigarettes in the U.S., but children as young as 7 are working long hours in fields harvesting nicotine- and pesticide-laced tobacco leaves under sometimes hazardous and sweltering conditions, according to a report released Wednesday by an international rights group.

In an unprecedented move, the Pentagon is trying to transfer convicted national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning to a civilian prison so she can get treatment for her gender disorder, defense officials said.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index traded above 1,900 points for the first time Tuesday but closed just shy of that milestone.

Two miners killed inside a coal mine worked for a company that had so many safety problems federal officials deemed it a "pattern violator," a rare designation reserved for the industry's worst offenders.

Senate Democrats lambasted one of President Barack Obama's picks for a federal judgeship in Georgia on Tuesday, skewering him for his past votes on abortion and the Confederate flag.

A bill to renew a package of more than 50 expired tax breaks cleared its first hurdle in the Senate Tuesday.