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.
Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted President Trump as a racist Monday during a speech honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
The Transportation Security Administration announced that wait times in security screening lines at major airports remain within the normal range Sunday, although more TSA workers are calling in sick amid the partial government shutdown.
House Budget Committee chairman John Yarmuth has retracted his call for a ban on Make America Great Again hats, saying he was joking, following a widely reported incident between MAGA-capped teens and a Native American elder.
Sen. Kamala Harris on Monday formally announced her candidacy for the 2020 presidential race.
Republicans unleashed Sunday on the media “obsession” with tearing down President Trump after last week’s uproar over a since-disputed article in BuzzFeed, while the news outlet continued to stand by its report.
All presidential contenders bring baggage to their campaigns, and for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, New York Democrat, the issue coming back to haunt her is political opportunism.
President Trump has announced the U.S. is withdrawing from the Paris climate accord negotiated by President Obama, but some activists say Republicans should do more and truly put the spike into it.
Chances for a broader immigration deal in the future rest on Democrats’ ability to negotiate over the border wall and the government shutdown, top White House officials said this weekend.
Former Democratic Rep. David Sawyer has registered as a lobbyist months after he lost his primary election following an investigation that found he violated the House's policies on harassment, decorum and ethics.
A commemorative service for Martin Luther King Jr. that was nearly imperiled by the federal government shutdown was held Monday morning in Atlanta at a church called King's "spiritual home." King's daughter, the Rev. Bernice King, said in her remarks that the annual service at Ebenezer Baptist Church came during a moment of crisis in America.
President Trump's attorney Rudolph Giuliani told CNN Monday that the White House's legal team reached out to special counsel Robert Mueller after a bombshell BuzzFeed report surfaced late last week.
Idaho's House has approved a bill intended to promote government transparency by exempting public records requests from a sales tax on top of copying and other fees.
French President Emmanuel Macron's former security aide, at the heart of a damaging political scandal, told a Senate commission Monday that he turned in his two diplomatic passports after being fired last summer but they were returned to him two months later.
A Democratic newcomer who challenged indicted California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter last year will run again for the seat in 2020.
President Trump on Monday observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day by visiting the memorial in Washington to the civil rights legend.
The University of Notre Dame will cover murals in a campus building that depict Christopher Columbus in America, the school's president said, following criticism that the images depict Native Americans in stereotypical submissive poses before white European explorers.
Kosovo's president on Monday said he would respond positively if summoned by a European Union-funded court investigating crimes against ethnic Serbs during and after the 1998-99 independence war with Serbia.
Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, Jan. 11
