Sen. Kamala D. Harris announced Monday that she is running for president, adding another woman and the first black contender to the 2020 Democratic race, which is poised to be more diverse and more liberal than any previous field.
The country’s fiscal picture is so bad that Rep. John Yarmuth, the new Democratic chairman of the House Budget Committee, says he doesn’t see a realistic way to write a budget that will get to balance within a decade.
Rep. Bobby Scott, Virginia Democrat, has introduced a bill that would more than double the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2024.
The big border wall showdown between President Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a veritable cast of thousands is escalating. Eager for buzzworthy drama or Trump-bashing extravaganzas, the restless news media has been confabulating multiple scenarios for better or worse as the clock ticks.
A peek inside the BuzzFeed newsroom and the decision-making process of editor Ben Smith is contained in a federal court record in Florida.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren ramped up her criticism of President Donald Trump on Monday faulting him for the partial federal government during remarks at the 49th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast in Boston.
Asked to define herself as a child of a Jamaican father or a mother who was an immigrant from India, Sen. Kamala Harris said Monday she’s a “proud American.”
Young liberal lawmakers haven’t just taken social media by storm, it turns out, but instead have helped their party catch up to what had been a Republican advantage over the last decade.
The son of Martin Luther King Jr. criticized Vice President Mike Pence on Monday for comparing President Trump to the late civil rights leader.
When gunmakers and dealers gather this week in Las Vegas for the industry's largest annual conference, they will be grappling with slumping sales and a shift in politics that many didn't envision two years ago when gun-friendly Donald Trump and a GOP-controlled Congress took office.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is laying out her strategy on health care and first up is improvements to "Obamacare" and legislation to lower prescription drug costs. "Medicare for all" will get hearings.
Senate Republicans have released a measure designed around President Donald Trump's proposal for breaking a budget impasse, its centerpiece his demand for $5.7 billion to build a southern border wall all but guaranteeing Democratic opposition and no foreseeable end to a partial government shutdown.
A North Carolina judge is considering a demand to order the victory of the Republican in the country's last undecided congressional race despite an investigation into whether his lead was boosted by illegal vote-collection tactics.
Twitter has suspended the account suspected of making go viral the misleadingly edited video of the Lincoln Memorial confrontation involving some Catholic high-school students, an Indian elder and a black hate group.
Coast Guard officials increasingly have been speaking out about the shutdown's impact on the service and on its member families, many of whom are turning to food pantries and local donation drives to get by.
President Trump acted Monday to make the Wilbur Martinez-Guzman case as notorious as the Katie Steinle slaying.
Zabi-Ullah Hemmat wasn't just one of 415,816 illegal immigrants caught at the southwest border in fiscal 2016. Nor was he just another of the 84 people from Afghanistan apprehended by Border Patrol agents that year.
Hundreds of political activists from across Virginia gathered in Richmond on Monday to lobby in favor of driving rights for immigrants, a higher minimum wage and voting rights for felons.
The son of new Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is fending off suspicions of financial irregularities that are starting to cast a shadow over the administration just four weeks in power.
