By a vote of 82 to 15 on Tuesday, the Senate cleared the first hurdle toward voting on a comprehensive immigration reform bill that could potentially provide a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants. This was the first vote on ...

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Agency announced their plan to tackle food waste in America, a problem that has grown by 50 percent since the 1970s. Today, as much as 40 percent of food produced in America ...

Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) announced on Tuesday afternoon that New Jersey's special election to fill the seat vacated with the passing of Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D) will take place on October 16, three full weeks before the state's general electio...

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), the last remaining World War II veteran in the Senate, died on Monday morning at the age of 89, after struggling for months with poor health. Throughout his long career in the Senate — he held two different Senate seats ...

Mississippi will inaugurate a marker Tuesday recalling a civil rights protest 50 years ago when a white mob attacked a racially mixed group seated at a whites-only lunch counter.

Mother Nature Network just flagged a fun diversion in the solar technology world: the Window Socket. It's a portable solar charger, roughly the size of a hockey puck, which uses a suction cup to attach to any available window. It also has a standard ...

Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) has endorsed marriage equality, making him the second Republican in the Senate to do so. With Vice President Joe Biden the tie-breaker, this marks the first time that a majority in the U.S. Senate has endorsed same-sex marriage....

A day after admitting that its sponsorship of the Utah Scout-A-Rama violated its corporate non-discrimination policies, Chipotle told ThinkProgress Tuesday that it has cancelled its support. In an email, company spokesman Chris Arnold wrote: By way o...

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the third iteration of the GOP budget on Tuesday morning. The document achieves balance in 10 years by maintaining the high revenue levels and health care savings that Republicans have vociferously opposed and slashing ...

As people around the world recognize International Women's Day, few would claim that women have achieved true parity. There's still a long way to go before women see anything near equity, even as countries have made slow but steady progress on closin...

At 10 AM on Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold its first hearings on new legislation to reduce gun violence in the United States. Here are the five things that'll help you make sense of the policy and politics at play in today's hear...