President Trump has tapped a California lawyer for a vacancy on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals over protests from the state’s Democratic senators, who oppose the man who would become the first Filipino-American judge and second openly gay man to serve on a federal circuit court.
The Trump administration signed an asylum agreement Friday with El Salvador, giving the U.S. the right to repatriate migrants who cross through El Salvador to reach the U.S. and who then request asylum here.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan this week ordered his department to resume granting stays of deportation to sick illegal immigrants, even in cases not specifically covered by law, The Washington Times has learned.
The Trump administration is losing conservative House members on efforts to expand background checks for buying firearms, with Freedom Caucus members rejecting the proposals floated by the attorney general.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday attempted to angle the political debate away from impeachment with the rollout of a plan to lower prescription drug prices, incorporating ideas President Trump has endorsed to give the legislation a chance of actually becoming law.
The debate over race and policing exploded into a shouting match in a Capitol Hill hearing room Thursday when the Rev. Al Sharpton was confronted about bigoted statements regarding Jewish people, white people and black people.
Louisiana’s gubernatorial candidates sparred on taxes and economic issues Thursday night but displayed surprising unanimity on many other hot-button topics.
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York said Wednesday that White House hopeful Beto O’Rourke is the only fellow Democrat he knows in support of confiscating certain guns.
Republican lawmakers in Virginia are renewing their push to hold a bipartisan hearing into sexual assault allegations two women have made against the state’s Democratic lieutenant governor.
Long after midnight, when the heat has finally relented and the walled courtyard is scattered with men sleeping in the open, someone begins to sob.
Long Beach has named its new main library after tennis star and women's rights activist Billie Jean King, who was born and raised in the city.
Colombia's president compared Nicolás Maduro to Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milosevic as he goes on a diplomatic offensive to corral the Venezuelan socialist, warning that he would be making a "stupid" mistake if he were to attack his U.S.-backed neighbor.
The New York Post roasted New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Saturday by running an obituary for his failed Democratic presidential campaign on the publication's front page.
Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey suggested Saturday that his struggling campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination could soon end over lack of support.
Protesters have marched several miles from Denver to an immigrant detention center where dozens of counter-demonstrators were waiting.
Violent white supremacists' tactics, narratives and radicalization process bear a striking similarity to those used by extremist jihadist groups, including the Islamic State, experts told Congress.
Democrats were quick to back working-class United Auto Workers in their strike against General Motors, delivering doughnuts and holding picket signs outside factories to show solidarity. It's a union they long have aligned with politically.
The House of Representatives will vote next week on a landmark marijuana banking bill with broad bipartisan support, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced Friday.
President Trump said Saturday the media is "fabricating" a story about him pressuring the president of Ukraine to investigate the son of Democratic frontrunner Joseph R. Biden, while ignoring a story about Mr. Biden essentially blackmailing Ukrainian leaders to lay off his son. Meanwhile, campaigning in Iowa, Mr. Biden angrily accused the president of "using every element of his presidency to try and smear me." He called for an investigation into Mr. Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian president.
Gov. Tom Wolf busied himself in the quiet Capitol over the summer with plans that didn't involve lawmakers: a way to finance new voting machines, new charter school regulations to write, gun violence prevention programs to create and more.
A state attorney is asking Florida's governor to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate if the board that oversees Florida's busiest airport violated state law on open public meetings.
Fresh off the climate strike that took hundreds of thousands of young people out of classrooms and into the streets globally, youth leaders gathered at the United Nations Saturday to demand radical moves to fight climate change.
Sen. Bernard Sanders on Saturday promised that if elected president he would wipe out all of the medical debt owed by Americans.
A former northwestern Indiana mayor is continuing to fight the bribery and tax obstruction convictions that forced him from office earlier this year.
Rare anti-government protests broke out in several Egyptian cities late Friday calling on President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to step down. The small street demonstrations were quickly dispersed by riot police using batons and tear gas.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged that he let down his supporters - and all Canadians of color - by appearing years ago in brownface and blackface. Yet the scandal's fallout may be limited in a country without the harsh and still-divisive racial history of the neighboring United States.
A federal judge said Friday that he was struggling with a request to more narrowly define what behavior justifies separating children from their parents at the border after complaints that the Trump administration has abused discretionary powers to split families under limited circumstances, like criminal history or questions about whether the adult is really the parent.
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday decried reports that President Donald Trump urged the president of Ukraine to look into his son's business dealings there.
