The campaign of former President Donald Trump on Friday came out swinging against Attorney General Merrick Garland's decision to elevate David Weiss, the U.S. attorney for Delaware, to special counsel in his investigation of President Biden's son Hunter Biden. Mr. Weiss has already been in charge of the investigation into the younger Mr. Biden's tax and other legal problems under both Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden.
Vice President Kamala Harris told young activists they are "critical" to changing the federal calculus on guns, saying their voices and votes can usher in a ban on military-style rifles and make firearm companies liable for gun violence.
The IRS has taken plenty of flak for sending stimulus checks to dead people, but a new inspector general's audit says the agency also has the reverse problem: It refused to send checks to some living people, claiming they were already dead.
When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed, it would have been hard for its supporters to imagine that roughly half the country would consider it a mediocre victory decades later. But that appears to be the case.
Mike Pence has the same long odds as much of the rest of the GOP presidential primary field. Yet one thing sets the former vice president apart from all the others: His candidacy has a point other than winning.
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — It’s 10:30 a.m. on a Thursday morning and a homeless man is curled up against the decorative angled brick below the archways of the large pane windows that line the office building known as the Fort Pitt Commons.
The effects of school closures during the pandemic persist even now, more than three years after the pandemic began, and it will take even more time to fix the cultural issues they have created.
Democrats regularly like to claim that spreading misinformation is a dangerous thing. They’ve often claimed it “threatens our democracy” and endangers the nation. Yet, despite all these warnings, Democrats are among the biggest purveyors of incorrect information, and pass it off as truth. And there may be no greater example of this than the annual claim that Michael Brown, a black teenager from Ferguson, Missouri, was killed by police officer Darren Wilson in 2014 and it happened because of racism and white supremacy.
A 3-year-old child died on Thursday aboard a bus of asylum seekers that was headed to Chicago, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) confirmed in a statement Friday. An investigation is underway to determine the circumstances behind the death. "IDPH is working with local health officials, state police, and federal authorities to the fullest...
The downgrade of the U.S. government’s credit rating by Fitch Ratings, from AAA to AA+, shouldn’t have shocked Washington. The federal government’s top auditor, Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, has been warning Congress and the president for years that the nation’s fiscal path is “unsustainable.” Yet there’s been little appetite for real fiscal compromise at either end of...