Attorney General Jeff Sessions unleashed a blistering assault on federal judges Monday, saying anti-Trump bias has led some to abandon their role as legal referees and become “political actors” erecting roadblocks to the president’s policies.
Florida voters were handed another issue Monday for next month’s gubernatorial contest as the state Supreme Court ruled the next governor — not Rick Scott, the term-limited incumbent — will pick three new justices in 2019.
After a full week of campaign rallies, problem solving and partisan attacks, President Trump also had an in depth interview with Leslie Stahl on CBS’ “60 Minutes” Sunday night. The overnight ratings from Nielsen Media Research are very telling here. Mr. Trump’s interview drew a respectable 11.8 million viewers for CBS. The debut of the “Alec Baldwin Show” on ABC, however, garnered 2.2 million. But that, as the sages say, is show biz.
What will it take to keep the planet habitable? According to some eco-warriors, all that’s necessary is to end capitalism — the one economic system that has lifted billions from poverty and suffering.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s newly released DNA results show that the Democrat’s Native American ancestry is roughly the same as that of the average white American, and may be less.
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.
President Obama’s former campaign manager Jim Messina complained Monday that Sen. Elizabeth’s Warren’s DNA results will distract from Democratic midterm campaigning.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren publicly released DNA test results Monday that support her claims of Native American heritage.
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.
Hundreds of Hondurans hoping to reach the United States bedded down for the night in this Guatemalan town after that country's authorities blinked first in attempts to halt their advance.
Idaho's gubernatorial candidates struck starkly different tones on topics ranging from transparency to health care and education during a live televised debate Monday evening.
The latest Project Veritas video accuses Sen. Claire McCaskill, Missouri Democrat, and her campaign staffers of hiding their views on gun control and President Obama from the state's conservative voters.
Democrats lead Republicans in the money race in many of the key Senate and House campaigns three weeks ahead of midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.
The Latest on a debate in the tight House race in Utah (all times local):
While investigators in Turkey searched the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul seeking clues to the fate of missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was heading to Riyadh seeking answers of his own, the bigger question for the Trump administration was how to manage an incident that could irrevocably tarnish a critical ally at a critical time.
The Latest on the Arizona Senate debate (all times local):
With the midterms approaching, candidates in a race for an open U.S. House seat that represents Albuquerque tried Monday to win over undecided voters in a rapid debate.
President Trump's tour Monday of devastation wrought by Hurricane Michael took him close to Florida's Tyndall Air Force Base, where more than a dozen F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets were damaged after being left in the path of the powerful storm.
After President Trump branded him as "sort of a Democrat," Defense Secretary James Mattis shot down the charge on Monday and said flatly that he's never been a Republican or Democrat.
South Dakota Republican congressional candidate Dusty Johnson has brought in more than double his Democratic opponent's third-quarter fundraising haul.
West Virginia Supreme Court candidates took turns touting themselves as the best option for restoring the public's confidence in the court system following an impeachment shakeup, and some urged residents to show up on Nov. 6 in what one candidate described as "the most critical election in our state's history."
A federal judge on Monday dismissed porn star Stormy Daniels' defamation lawsuit against President Trump, saying the president was well within his First Amendment rights when he took to Twitter to mock her.
A Republican appointed to the U.S. Senate in Mississippi and one of her Democratic challengers both report raising more than $1 million from July through September.
It was the tweet seen around the world.
