The prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey hit another hurdle Wednesday as the Justice Department encountered mounting questions about how the case was presented to a grand jury for indictment.

When is a president not a president? When he’s a lame duck. President Donald Trump has not reached that stage yet, but it’s no longer outlandish to wonder when he will. He arrived in office in January with extraordinary potency. He’d won the presidential election not in a landslide but nevertheless convincingly. He’d been victorious […]

American involvement in the Middle East is not ending, but it is changing. Many Americans, including many policymakers and pundits, want the United States to have less involvement in the region. But the Middle East will continue to matter for decades to come, and here’s why. On Monday, the Trump administration said it would approve the […]

The September jobs report showed the U.S. added 119,000 jobs as the unemployment rate rose to 4.4 percent, according to data released Thursday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than six weeks after it was initially set to be published. Late Wednesday, a bill forcing the release of information related to the late sex...