House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer slammed President Trump’s executive orders on coronavirus relief as “meager” solutions that don’t appreciate the gravity of the crisis.
The House Ethics Committee is demanding Rep. Rashida Tlaib pay back $10,800 to her campaign for taking a salary in violation of federal election laws, but finds no “ill intent.”
White House and Democratic negotiators emerged from their tenth covid-relief negotiation late Thursday still “very far apart” on major issues they need for a deal.
President Trump is looking to unilaterally extend several coronavirus relief measures as negotiations with Congress drag on while evidence of economic pain — including 1.2 million new unemployment claims filed last week — deepens.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer demanded Thursday that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy reverse recent policy changes they argued are undermining the U.S. Postal Service.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday ahead of President Trump’s trip to the state before testing negative later in the day.
President Trump issued executive orders Thursday night banning the Chinese applications TikTok and WeChat, saying they pose a threat to U.S. national security.
Sen. Gary Peters demanded to know Thursday why Homeland Security didn’t ask for help from Oregon officials before sending in officers and agents to help protect the federal courthouse in Portland.
President Trump continues to bypass major pollsters. He has been conducting his own surveys for a while. A news and entertainment guy himself, President Trump has been polling his followers about campaign issues, popular sentiment and media performance since his campaign days in 2015. This week is no exception. Mr. Trump’s campaign issued a new 25-question “Mainstream Media Accountability Survey” on Thursday — and it is specific, indeed. A few sample questions reveal the campaign is still very much in touch with the concerns of Trump voters:
India said Sunday that it will ban the imports of 101 items of military equipment in an effort to boost local production and improve self-reliance in weapons manufacturing.
The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday marked its 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, with the mayor and dwindling survivors urging world leaders including their own to do more for a nuclear weapons ban.
Joseph R. Biden on Saturday assailed President Trump's executive action to send coronavirus relief to Americans, calling it "half-baked measures" and a failure of leadership.
President Trump signed executive orders on Saturday to provide more aid to people hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, including extending $400 weekly unemployment benefits and granting a payroll tax holiday for workers making less than $100,000, as he accused congressional Democrats of "stonewalling" negotiations.
Demonstrators turned out in Warsaw and other Polish cities Saturday to protest anti-LGBT attitudes promoted by the government as well as the detention of pro-LGBT protesters.
It's only been four years since Hillary Clinton ran for president, but New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd apparently forgot, declaring in a Saturday column that it had been 36 years since "a man and a woman ran together on a Democratic Party ticket."
Voters in Georgia will return to the polls Tuesday for runoffs to settle party nominations in four congressional races and 17 legislative races, as well as a closely watched contest for who will claim the Democratic nod for district attorney in Fulton County. Here's a look at some top races:
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid predicted this week Democrats will retake control of the U.S. Senate after the fall elections.
A Port Townsend, Washington, man who left a heroin overdose victim in a car outside a hospital emergency room pleaded guilty Friday to drug trafficking and illegal firearms possession charges.
The man who served as mayor of Alpena for the past year and a half never was mayor.
California lawmakers are pushing to enact nearly a dozen policing reform laws driven by nationwide outrage and protests after George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis in May. Lawmakers have until Aug. 31 to approve and send legislation to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
This political campaign was likely the last for Joe Arpaio, the former six-term sheriff of metro Phoenix known for leading immigration crackdowns and building a political career around the harsh treatment of jail inmates. The 88-year-old lawman narrowly lost a race to win back his old job, his second failed comeback bid four years after getting voted out of office.
Sydney Powell, the lawyer for FBI perjury-trap target Michael Flynn, used to think she was on the same side as the judge who now refuses to let FBI misconduct stand in the way of prosecuting her client.
The death of George Floyd and widespread protests over racial injustice have prompted several states to move at a lightning pace to pass significant policing reform proposals that in some cases have languished for years.
Nature is returning to craters left from lakes drained by two dams that failed in May during torrential rain in mid-Michigan.
The latest on the explosion in Beirut (all times local):
Culture differences, language and often other barriers can stand in the way of immigrant business owners who could benefit from assistance programs to help them navigate the new world created by COVID-19.
President Trump, responding to a government report Friday about continued foreign interference in the U.S. presidential election, said the biggest risk from adversaries is meddling with mail-in ballots.
President Trump on Friday said supporters at his New Jersey club didn't have to observe social distancing rules because his press conference qualified for a political-activity exemption.
