Politics

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) blistered her GOP colleagues and the Supreme Court's ruling in the Hobby Lobby case just before a bill reversing the decision was blocked.

Robert Reich, President Bill Clinton's former Secretary of Labor, recently put the so-called immigration crisis in perspective by reminding Americans that the women and children who were escaping to the U.S. were "refugees of the drug war we’ve created."

A New Mexico mother said that she was lucky to be alive this week after an angry stranger began firing a gun at her car full of children.

CNN anchor Carol Costello on Wednesday pressed an Arizona sheriff after he published the bus route of refugee children, sparking protests from anti-immigrant demonstrators.

Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert (R) asserted this week that the crisis of women and children refugees seeking protection inside U.S. borders was so serious that it put "our continued existence at risk."

A Seattle women's group said this week that a bullet-riddled target left outside their offices was meant to intimidate them over their support for a bill that would close background check loopholes.

Jon Stewart opened The Daily Show on Tuesday skewering the lawmakers and protesters scapegoating the thousands of young immigrants coming to the U.S. and asking why they can't be deported back to Central America.

Outgoing Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) derailed a CNN discussion on Tuesday about the thousands of undocumented immigrants arriving in the U.S. from Central America by calling them "invaders" and linking them to at least one rape case and an auto accident from six years ago.

Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin quietly tried to slip through a bill that was "designed" to decriminalize campaign abuses after prosecutors began investigating Gov. Scott Walker's (R) associates over illegal issue ads during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections, a report suggested this week.

A Princeton professor who CBNC billed as an "industry expert" on the climate said this week that scientists were demonizing carbon dioxide "like the poor Jews under Hitler" in order to perpetrate a global warming hoax.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, who outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in 2011, was detained by U.S. border patrol agents while reporting on the refugee crisis in Texas on Tuesday.

A group of anti-immigration protesters have gathered in Oracle, Arizona to stop 40 child refugees who have been invited to stay at a ranch for boys.