Mexico's Congress has approved an energy reform which the Government hopes will allow multimillion dollar investments from both private investors and foreign comapnies, the biggest development in the sector in seventy years.

Many analysts in the Mexican and international press have not looked favorably upon the bill, saying it included too many compromises to have teeth. Check out 5 things to know about it.

The 29-year-old CEO and founder of immigration reform lobby group FWD.us is in Washington this week to press for reform.

“Notarios”, or unsanctioned, non-lawyer immigration consultants who advertise themselves as public notaries capable of advising immigrants on the finer points of the immigration process, have for a long time been the object of awareness campaigns by immigrant-advocacy organizations.

President Barack Obama made a public statement after the chemical weapon attack in Syria on his decision to take action.

Michele Bachmann tells Congress to "spank" Obama by halting immigration reform.

Colombia's Congress passes circus animals ban.

Despite growing pressure, Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder does not appear ready to change his team's name.

John McCain engaged Mike Lee in criticizing the Utah Senator's remarks about Inside-the-Beltway procedure.

In November, 54% said they disliked the islands' current status as a US territory.

11 members of the Venezuelan parliament were injured after a brawl broke out on the chamber floor. The majority Socialist party had passed a measure denying the opposition the right to speak until they recognize the results of the presidential election.

The island wants Congress to vote for their statehood. What are their reasons?

Chelsea Clinton may seek higher office sometime in the near future.

Stephen Colbert's sister, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, won her Democratic primary bid for South Carolina's First Congressional District.

(Reuters) - Just over a week into his second term, President Barack Obama took his fight for immigration reform to the West on Tuesday and pushed Congress to quickly find a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented residents.

(Reuters) - A top Democratic lawmaker tried on Thursday to revive a U.S. assault-weapons ban, riding a wave of support for gun control after the killing of 20 children and six adults at a school in Connecticut last month. Senator Dianne Feinstein and several other Democrats said they were introducing a bill to ban semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips. It faces stiff opposition in Congress as well as from the National Rifle Association, the main U.S. lobby for gun manufacturers, and from many Americans.

During the past two years as his frustration with a "dysfunctional" Congress has grown, President Barack Obama has resorted to bypassing the legislative branch as he did on Wednesday to implement tighter gun control laws.

Taxes were on track to rise for many Americans this week unless lawmakers could cut a last-minute deal on Monday to avoid the "fiscal cliff," an outcome that seemed unlikely, but still possible.

President Barack Obama is due back in Washington early Thursday for a final effort to negotiate a deal with Congress to avert or at least postpone the "fiscal cliff" of tax increases and government spending cuts set to begin next week.

Colombian lawmakers passed a constitutional reform to the military justice system on Tuesday despite criticism by human rights groups that the law could open the door to impunity for abuses.

Mexico's efforts to pass the biggest reform of its labor laws in four decades hit a hurdle on Tuesday when the Senate sent a bill back to the lower house of Congress to try and open up trade unions to more scrutiny, potentially stalling the legislation.

Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its Green Party allies will have 241 of 500 seats in the lower house of Congress, one more than originally projected after the July 1 election, final results obtained by Reuters on Wednesday showed.