(CNN) -- Cyberattacks are an increasing threat at home, while extremists continue to make inroads in Middle Eastern and African countries that are in transition after the Arab Spring, according to the U.S. intelligence community's worldwide threat assessment.

(CNN) -- Voters in Byron, Maine, have unanimously rejected a proposed law that would have required each household in the 140-person town to own a firearm and ammunition.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The fastest growing job in America pays poorly. Meet home health care aides.

(CNN) -- After a series of problems that included a police officer using a racial slur, the new police chief in a Tennessee town is trying to clean up his department's image by requiring all applicants to take a polygraph test.

A study by Brandeis University has found that the wealth gap between Blacks and Whites has tripled in the last 20 years.

Legislation funding the federal government for the next several months wouldn't gain support from Sen. Marco Rubio unless the bill de-funds President Barack Obama's health care law, the Florida Republican said on Thursday.

Democratic Sen. Carl Levin, 78, announced Thursday that he will not run for a seventh term in 2014. The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, called it an "extremely difficult" decision and stated that he'll better serve his Michigan constituents in the next two years of his term by not being distracted by a campaign.

abrielle Giffords, the former congresswoman from Arizona who was shot and wounded in a 2011 shooting, has been named this year's recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, the JFK Library said

Hagel is the first Vietnam veteran to be Defense Secretary. He plans to visit troops on his trip to Kabul Afghanistan

(CNN) -- The White House has reached out to Sen. Rand Paul after he spent thirteen hours on the Senate floor demanding answers from President Barack Obama's administration on the use of drones against American citizens, the Kentucky Republican said Thursday.