On Wednesday, in a closely watched case, a state judge in Pennsylvania declined to block the state's controversial voter ID law from taking effect.

FREMONT, Calif. – Manat Kaur is in many ways a typical 14-year-old, indistinguishable from others her age in her usual outfit of sneakers, jeans and T-shirt. But when asked, the soon-to-be high school freshman makes it a point never to hide her Sikh identity.

PHOENIX – Arizona governor Jan Brewer issued an executive order on Wednesday that will deny undocumented youth access to state-issued identification cards and other state benefits. But the order, say legal experts, will have consequences for other immigrants as well.

CLAREMONT, Calif. – When a number of formerly incarcerated women last year received what they thought was a distress e-mail from a friend, Gloria Killian, saying she was stranded in Scotland penniless and needed to have money wired to her ASAP so she could fly back to California, at least two of them rushed to their banks to see how much they could pull out.

WASHINGTON (NNPA) —  Economists are breathing a sigh of relief after the Labor Depart­ment reported last week that employers added 163,000 workers to their payrolls last month, doubling the 80,000 jobs added in June.

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City voters are divided along racial lines over the New York Police Department's ``stop-and-frisk'' strategy, according to a poll released Thursday.

(CNN) -- Retiring baby boomers are cashing out on their decades of paying into Social Security. The problem? Social Security is no longer running a surplus, worrying many that the entitlement program is in trouble.

(CNN) -- A now defunct suburban Philadelphia swim club has agreed to a settlement more than three years after being accused of racism and discrimination for denying children from a largely minority day-care center access to their facility, the U.S. Justice Department said.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- A Tulsa County judge on Tuesday ordered two men accused of gunning down three black people and wounding two more in April to stand trial on first-degree murder counts.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Home construction, a key component in any U.S. economic recovery, is picking up.