Do Democrats have enough political momentum to seize control of the House and the Senate from Republicans in November? Three major factors will shape the outcome.
As part of his plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller, former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort agreed to forfeit real estate and cash estimated to be worth between $42 million and $46 million.
The suit, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, is in relation to two Freedom of Information Act requests submitted by members of the committee in early August.
Ditching decades of U.S. trade policy that he says swindled America and robbed its workers, Trump insists he can save U.S. jobs and factories by abandoning or rewriting trade deals, slapping taxes on imports and waging a brutal tariff war with China, America's biggest trading partner. "Prior presidents in both political parties have never really moved to try to...
After professor Christine Blasey Ford went public over the weekend with allegations that Kavanaugh drunkenly held her down and groped her during a party in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh's chances for confirmation have been thrust into uncertainty.
A woman who accuses Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of forcing himself on her during a high school party in the early 1980s has come forward publicly for the first time.
Federal authorities suspect a man accused of having threatened President Donald Trump and other officials may have stolen a truck overnight from the same northeastern Pennsylvania business he is believed to have burglarized earlier this month.
After years of public pressure, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was largely barred from the world's largest social media platforms.
With the rise of Donald Trump, who has been described as the "human distillation" of the conspiracy theorists' paranoid worldview, Jones appeared set to finally make it into the mainstream.
Bill Kristol, who served in both the Reagan and Bush administrations, is looking for a GOP candidate to challenge Trump in the 2020 primary.
California GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher has fended off challengers before but this time around he's facing one of the toughest battles of his political life against businessman Harley Rouda, a Democrat, as the two are virtually tied in polls.
"Mueller sees Manafort as a key in that regard, or a final key," said Sol Wisenberg, deputy to Kenneth Starr during the 1990s Whitewater investigation of President Bill Clinton.
Trump has offered support for his former campaign manager throughout Manafort's legal battle with Mueller. Friday's retraction raised questions about whether the goodwill could be short-lived.
A hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington is set for Friday morning, and jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday.
The positive news Wall Street savors — robust corporate profits, rising stock prices, surging output growth deliver the greatest rewards to a relatively modest share of more affluent Americans.
But the move is undercut by election pressures faced by GOP lawmakers from high-tax states where residents are hurt by the law's limits on state and local tax deductions. Prospects for the measure, which Democrats unanimously oppose, are dim in the Senate— and it may not come to a vote by the full House before the November elections. And about a dozen Republican...
Senator Dianne Feinstein has referred a confidential letter about Supreme Court nominee to the FBI. The letter is related to an incident between Kavanaugh and a woman when they were in high school.
The contents of the letter about Brett Kavanaugh were not revealed. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said she "referred the matter to federal investigative authorities."
That Senate Judiciary Committee's vote on Kavanaugh is now scheduled for Sept. 20, following a 11-10 vote along party lines.
That number represents a more than fivefold increase since last May, setting a record, according to a report in The New York Times, which first reported the numbers.
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