House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday demanded an investigation into Homeland Security’s treatment of pregnant illegal immigrants after the ACLU filed a complaint claiming one woman was left to deliver her baby while standing up in a border detention facility.
With all eyes on the coronavirus pandemic, presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden has called on President Trump to act more quickly on several fronts.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Wednesday laid down markers for what congressional Democrats want to see in the next legislative package in response to the coronavirus pandemic, including more money for small businesses, hospitals and local governments.
The senior Republican in the Senate led a bipartisan group Wednesday scolding President Trump for his ouster of the intelligence community’s inspector general, calling it a worrying attack on a key watchdog, and perhaps even a violation of the law.
Sen. Kelly Loeffler, Georgia Republican, on Wednesday defended stock sales she made before the coronavirus-related economic crash really took hold, saying her investments are in the hands of third-party managers.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is telling House Democrats that direct deposits to Americans will begin next week under the coronavirus aid package.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum on Wednesday defended his decision to not issue a statewide stay-at-home order, saying the state’s targeted approach is working to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
According to a Politico/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday, a majority of American voters said Mr. Obama would be doing a better job of handling the coronavirus epidemic than President Trump has done.
An anti-corruption group is organizing a global coalition of like-minded organizations to defend whistleblowers during the coronavirus crisis.
The president is emerging as the leader in the race for the White House. Indeed, a new Politico/Morning Consult poll released this week found that 44% of U.S. voters picked Mr. Trump as the best leader during the pandemic, compared to 36% who felt that way about Mr. Biden.
The Louisiana attorney general announced an aggressive move against elective surgeries Thursday, a step he said was designed to help health officials in the coronavirus crisis but seemed sure to spark controversy as it included abortion clinics.
Americans will be adding a wonkish term -- "serological test" -- to their vocabularies in the coming days as federal and state officials point to immunity-screening as the key to getting back to normal when coronavirus cases tail off.
With coronavirus keeping most of the country in self-isolation and raising concerns about returning to Capitol Hill, House leadership doubled down on opposition to lawmakers being allowed to vote remotely.
The World Health Organization has never had more than one director-general from the same nation, so when Dr. Margaret Chan of Hong Kong left after two terms in 2017, China pushed to have her succeeded by an Ethiopian microbiologist named Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
A judge in southwest Virginia on Thursday rejected a lawsuit that sought to carve ought a religious exemption to Gov. Ralph Northam's executive order requiring people to stay at home.
Former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile was so eager for Colin Kaepernick to play in the NFL that she fell for a Twitter hoax.
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden is joining a growing call for the release of comprehensive racial data on the coronavirus pandemic, which he says has put a spotlight on inequity and the impact of "structural racism," according to a not-yet-published Medium post obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
Construction plans for an immigration detention center in Uinta County have been canceled after several groups protested against the southwestern Wyoming facility.
Joe Biden attempted to lure progressives to his presidential campaign on Thursday with promises to expand Medicare and forgive college debt.
A partisan fight over voting in Wisconsin was the first issue linked to the coronavirus to make it to the Supreme Court. Efforts to limit abortion during the pandemic could eventually land in the justices' hands. Disputes over guns and religious freedom also are popping up around the country.
Hamas-run security forces have arrested several peace activists in the Gaza Strip on treason charges after they took part in a web conference with Israeli activists, officials said Thursday.
House Republican Conference chair Liz Cheney said Thursday that the World Health Organization head "absolutely should go," arguing that having a Chinese Communist Party "puppet" in charge is "costing lives around the world."
