President Trump oversaw a massive increase in the deficit during his first full year in office, the Treasury Department announced Monday, pointing to rising spending and stagnant taxes that threaten to send the government back into the realm of trillion-dollar shortfalls.
Poor adults in states that refused to expand Medicaid are more likely to say they've gone without needed medical care than those living in states that snapped up federal dollars to extend coverage, a government watchdog said Monday.
Republican Rep. Martha McSally accused her Democratic opponent, Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, of supporting "treason," citing a 15-year-old radio interview -- a charge that Sinema dismissed as part of a "ridiculous" negative campaign during Monday's debate in the race for Arizona's open Senate seat.
President Obama's former campaign manager Jim Messina complained Monday that Sen. Elizabeth's Warren's DNA results will distract from Democratic midterm campaigning.
President Trump said Monday that he sees another groundswell of support for him building, and he promised "something big is happening."
Sen. Elizabeth Warren publicly released DNA test results Monday that support her claims of Native American heritage.
Candidates in Ohio's U.S. Senate campaign sparred Sunday over health care, approaches to climate change, student loan debt, immigration, tariffs and gun control in the first of three debates.
Congressional pressure is mounting for a full rethink of U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia as evidence grows that the kingdom, a longtime American ally, was responsible for the disappearance of, and increasingly likely the death of, a Washington Post journalist.
The incredibly close Senate race in Missouri has turned into a contest of who can keep stoking their base's anger over the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rejected Sunday the suggestion that her husband's relationship with Monica Lewinsky was an abuse of power, noting that the intern "was an adult."
Congressional Republicans are collecting evidence to show an extensive, election year, anti-Trump conspiracy between Hillary Clinton operatives such as Fusion GPS and Barack Obama appointees at the Justice Department and the FBI.
Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for Georgia governor, continued Sunday to accuse her Republican opponent of voter suppression even though the state recently broke its voter-registration record on his watch.
President Trump told CBS's "60 Minutes" on Sunday night that he doesn't trust some of his White House staff and that he considers Defense Secretary James N. Mattis "sort of a Democrat" who could leave the administration relatively soon.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent calls for incivility may come back to haunt the Democratic Party during the midterms if a new Republican ad resonates with voters.
Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS, will refuse to appear for a deposition in front of Congress, according to a letter that his lawyers sent Thursday to the House Judiciary Committee.
The Senate confirmed 15 of President Trump's judicial picks Thursday night after GOP leaders reached a deal with Democrats, clearing about a third of the backlog and closing up shop through Election Day to give senators a chance to campaign.
Florida's gubernatorial election took a legal detour Thursday when lawyers for Democratic candidate Andrew Gillum circulated a "cease and desist" letter to television stations for what they claim is a defamatory ad.
The Judiciary Committee cleared eight more judicial nominees Thursday, giving GOP leaders a total of 49 judges ready to be confirmed by the whole Senate.
Michelle Obama slammed Eric H. Holder Jr.'s alteration of her famous "when they go low, we go high" slogan, saying the former attorney general's "kick them" comment stokes fear and is "not a proper motivator" for change.
President Trump said Thursday that his political rival Hillary Clinton should have been "taken right off the campaign" and thrown in jail back in 2016.
