The “public charge” rule takes effect, giving U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services the authority to refuse green cards — the key step on the path to citizenship — to people who have used a wide range of nonemergency welfare programs.
The Trump administration late Monday asked Congress for $2.5 billion to combat the coronavirus from China, underscoring fears the wily pathogen that’s taken root in Italy, Iran and elsewhere could spread within the U.S. and upend public health and the economy in an election year.
House Majority Whip James Clyburn on Sunday said Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont would add an “extra burden” for Democrats in the 2020 elections.
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is changing its business address in Washington to a smaller office as it confronts budget deficits, staff reductions and declining membership.
The news media is not particularly thrilled with the idea that President Trump’s first state visit to India is expected to be a joyous one. The coverage is rife with talk about optics and spectacle among journalists who can’t seem to get over the fact that the visit celebrates “shared values, and strategic and economic interests” between the two nations, according to the White House. The press is not thrilled that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has organized a mammoth, 14-mile motorcade for the occasion that has earned its own hashtag: #BiggestRoadShowEver.”
House Democrats will attempt to crack down on youth smoking this week when they return to Washington from a weeklong break for Presidents Day.
Attorney General William P. Barr will attend a closed-door lunch with Republican senators next week, according to a source familiar with the planning.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison asked for an example of a “Bernie Bro” behaving badly, prompting a comeback from House Minority Whip Steve Scalise.
A pro-Israel Democratic group that had been airing attack ads against Sen. Bernard Sanders in Iowa and Nevada isn’t going any further with the effort.
At least seven people, including a police officer, were killed and dozens were injured in clashes between hundreds of supporters and opponents of a new citizenship law in India that provides fast-track naturalization for some foreign-born religious minorities but not Muslims, police said Tuesday.
Tom Steyer was put on the defensive Monday after a voter pressed him on how he can bill himself as a climate warrior at the same time that he is flooding the mailboxes and doorsteps of South Carolina voters with an "overkill" of campaign flyers.
After months of resisting pressure to hand over the premiership to his named successor, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad finally quit this week. But in a confounding twist, the 94-year-old leader emerged stronger than before, while his ruling alliance, which won a historic vote about two years ago, met its Waterloo.
Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg says the high marks that Sen. Bernard Sanders gives Fidel Castro's reading programs is yet another example of how the avowed Democratic socialist could dent the party's chance of ousting President Trump in 2020.
A staffer with Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign was fired after a Daily Beast report about his having regularly mocked the Vermont socialist's Democratic-primary rivals and their families in sexist, homophobic and other personal terms.
Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont on Monday slapped down reports that he considered launching a primary challenge against then-President Obama in 2012, chalking it up to the "silly season" of the nomination race, and voicing his admiration for the ex-president's record.
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper and South Korean counterpart Jeong Kyeong-doo acknowledged Monday they still have a lot of work to resolve a divisive dispute over the payments for the U.S. troops defending Seoul from North Korea on the divided Korean peninsula.
Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont said Monday it would be a "serious, serious, problem" for the Democratic Party if the presidential nomination is steered away from a candidate that collects the most pledged delegates, but falls short of sewing up the nomination outright.
Michigan Republican congressman Fred Upton announced Monday he will seek re-election to his Sixth Congressional District seat located in the southwest corner of the state.
More than 17,000 undocumented immigrants released by sanctuary cities since 2013 remain at large, according to an audit Monday by the Homeland Security inspector general, who detailed the growing trend of states and localities refusing to cooperate with ICE.
The prospect of Bernie Sanders as the Democrats' standard-bearer is sending shivers through the less liberal ranks of the party and fueling concerns that time could be running out to prevent what some are predicting would be an electoral nightmare.
MSNBC's Chris Matthews apologized Monday to Bernie Sanders for comparing the Democratic senator's win in the Nevada caucus to the Nazi takeover of France.
The unexpected death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on the day of the 2016 Republican debate in South Carolina made the high court a top issue in the race and ultimately rallied conservative voters to help put Donald Trump in the White House.
Some Nebraska lawmakers expressed shock and outrage Monday that gun owners were allowed to bring loaded, semi-automatic rifles into the state Capitol to protest bills that would have imposed new restrictions on gun ownership.
The oldest son of President Donald Trump has received a permit to hunt and kill a grizzly bear in Alaska, officials said Monday.
The coronavirus from China infected Wall Street Monday, as U.S. stocks took a beating Monday amid fears the outbreak that hobbled the world's No. 2 economy would carve through Europe and make South Korea's economic engine seize up, too.
Election integrity activists are raising concerns about Georgia's new voting machines, saying the large, bright, vertical touchscreens allow other people in the room to see a voter's selections in violation of ballot secrecy provisions in state law.
