The crowded 2024 contest to fill the seat of retiring Democratic U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is considered wide open, but U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff has built a substantial fundraising edge over his chief rivals, federal records showed Monday.

Jury selection began Monday in Michael Cohen's civil lawsuit against the Trump Organization, in which the former president's personal attorney and fixer claims he is owed more than $1 million.

First it was "mothers" and "pregnant women," and now Democrats are targeting another two sex-based words: "husband" and "wife."

An Iowa judge on Monday temporarily blocked the state's new ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, just days after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the measure into law.

Democrats on Monday scolded one of their own, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, in a scramble to smooth over her anti-Israel rhetoric ahead of Israeli President Isaac Herzog's address to Congress this week.

The White House on Monday defended the Secret Service's investigation into the packet of cocaine discovered in the West Wing, despite the agency's inability to find a culprit or much evidence.

President Joe Biden on Monday invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet with him in the U.S. this fall, the White House said, even as he expressed ongoing concern about Netanyahu's controversial plans to overhaul his country's judicial system.

The Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of leaking secret military papers challenged a judge's decision that he remain behind bars, pointing Monday to the pretrial release of former President Donald Trump and others charged in high-profile classified documents cases.

President Biden recently declared in an emphatic tweet that real wages for the average American worker are higher than they were before the coronavirus hit in 2019.