EAST OROSI, Calif.–Jessica Sanchez sits on the edge of her seat in her mother's kitchen, hands resting on her bulging belly. Eight months pregnant, she's excited about the imminent birth of her son. But she's scared too.

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Mangamana Kao made multiple trips last year to the District of Columbia's public benefits office to get the medical assistance and food stamps he could rightfully receive as a legal immigrant from Togo. On each visit, he made a simple request that was always –and illegally--denied: He asked for a interpreter who could translate into French, his primary language in Togo.

(CNN) -- Lauren Ramsdell had a year to kill in between finishing college in May and getting married next year. So she decided to move back in with her parents.

Voting rights advocates in Florida are anxiously awaiting a ruling from the U.S. District Court in Tallahassee on a legal challenge by the Department of Justice to the state's attempts to purge its voting roles.

FLORENCE, Arizona (AP) -- Samuel Villegas Lopez became the first person ever to be executed in Arizona while witnesses other than prison officials saw catheters inserted into an inmate's veins -- a move the state Department of Corrections made after a federal judge recently sided with The Associated Press and Idaho news organizations seeking full viewing access to lethal injections.

WASHINGTON – Congressional Republican attacks on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, says Wisconsin Congresswoman Gwen Moore, may be about more than "Fast and Furious."

WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- Congress was voting Friday to extend low 3.4% interest rates on federally subsidized student loans for another year, barely beating a July 1 deadline when the rates would double.

(CNN) -- George Zimmerman, the man accused of fatally shooting unarmed black teen Travyon Martin, returned to a Florida courtroom on Friday asking to be let out of jail for a second time.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The House of Representatives voted Thursday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt for refusing to turn over documents tied to the botched Fast and Furious gun-running sting -- a discredited operation that has become a sharp point of contention between Democrats and Republicans in Washington.

(CNN) -- If you're planning on getting a four-year degree at college, a newly released study suggests you shouldn't take five or six years to get it.