Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will sit down Tuesday with 9/11 first responders on Capitol Hill, following comedian Jon Stewart's high-profile criticism of Congress and his plea for the extension of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, which is struggling…
Democratic presidential candidates will descend on Miami this week for the first pair of debates with many hoping to do what only few so far have achieved: score a breakout moment.Candidates' schedules have been lighter than normal of late, with…
Two of Chief Justice John Roberts' top priorities are on a collision course as the Supreme Court nears a pivotal decision this week on the Trump administration's design for the 2020 census.Roberts has repeatedly declared that he wants the public…
Sen. Kamala Harris of California has added a fourth Congressional Black Caucus member to her list of endorsements from its influential members: Rep. William Lacy Clay.Former Vice President Joe Biden has five endorsements from the caucus, as the 2020 Democratic…
Democratic lawmakers believe they have uncovered another example of previously-hidden political calculus driving the Trump administration's decision to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census.But with the Supreme Court poised to rule on the question's validity this week,…
Iran accused the United States Tuesday of lying about wanting to resume talks between the two countries in the wake of new sanctions imposed by President Donald Trump earlier this week."You say you really want to hold talks with us,"…
Jurors in the murder trial of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher heard from NCIS investigators and forensics and pathology experts on Monday.Gallagher is accused of multiple violations of military law, including murdering a prisoner, posing for a photo next to a…
President Donald Trump balked at greenlighting a "cocked and loaded" military strike on Iran last week, but by tightening an already choking sanctions squeeze on the bitter US foe he might merely have selected a slower path to war.The administration's…
President Donald Trump is considering a visit to the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea during his scheduled trip to Seoul, South Korea, ahead of the G-20 summit, according to a South Korean government official.A South Korean Blue House…
Internal division among House Democrats made it unclear Monday night whether the party had enough to votes to pass their own border supplemental bill, leaving in question whether changes will be made or whether a vote will still happen as…
President Donald Trump wouldn't reveal his level of confidence in FBI Director Christopher Wray, who has found himself on the opposite side of the White House when it comes to the investigation into Trump's 2016 campaign and whether campaigns should…
President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of the Federal Reserve on Monday, tweeting that its decision not to cut interest rates is undermining the US economy and that the central bank is acting like a "stubborn child" for refusing to…
Senate Democrats are weighing whether to filibuster the annual defense policy bill that is on the floor this week to try to force a vote on an amendment that would require President Donald Trump to get congressional approval before launching…
Nearly 250 migrant children who were held at a Customs and Border Protection facility in Clint, Texas, will be shifted into the Department of Health and Human Services' shelter system by Tuesday following reports of poor conditions at the facility."Last…
White House lawyer Pat Cipollone told the House Oversight Committee on Monday that senior counselor Kellyanne Conway will not appear at a hearing on Wednesday after a federal agency said earlier this month that Conway was a repeat offender of…
White House lawyers told the House Oversight Committee on Monday that senior counselor Kellyanne Conway will not appear at a hearing on Wednesday after a federal agency said earlier this month that she was a repeat offender of the Hatch…
At the request of CNN, a federal judge in Washington on Monday released about 230 pages of data from the court showing new details about the scope and speed of Robert Mueller's investigation.The pages largely show limited new details about…
President Donald Trump doesn't believe he needs congressional approval to make a military strike against Iran, but he likes "the idea of keeping Congress abreast.""I do like keeping them -- they have ideas, they're intelligent people, they'll have some thoughts.…
Ever since Susan Collins cast the deciding vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court last October, Democrats have pledged that they will beat the long-serving Maine Republican senator in 2020.On Monday, they took a major step in making…
The Trump administration has not sent $600 million in emergency food stamp aid to Puerto Rico two weeks after President Donald Trump approved the funds, and the US territory does not expect to receive the funding until September, according to…
In the last three months, President Donald Trump has called Obamacare a "disaster," a "catastrophe" and something that just "doesn't work." But on Monday, he conceded, it's working "at least adequately now."Trump told the crowd at the White House for…
The fight over the future of progressive politics in the era of Donald Trump will take center stage on Tuesday in New York's Queens county, home to 2.3 million people and a captivating intraparty contest that could have implications for…
Michael Flynn is still cooperating with the Justice Department, and it will delay his sentencing for another several months.President Donald Trump's first national security adviser's "cooperation is fully ongoing," his attorney Sidney Powell said in court Monday, putting to rest…
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did not discuss the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi with Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud during their meeting on Monday in Jeddah, a senior State Department official said.Asked by the traveling press whether…
Higher education has become a focus of the ideas primary waged on the left flank of the Democratic presidential primary.There are important distinctions between plans put forward by Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, but they…
