U.S. Defense chief Lloyd Austin will testify before House lawmakers on his secret hospitalization for prostate cancer treatment after apologizing to President Biden.
A former attorney for the Trump White House predicts that the Supreme Court will rule unanimously against the 45th president on his claims to be immune from criminal prosecution. Ty Cobb, who was special counsel to the White House as Trump sought to fend off the investigation headed by Robert Mueller, was speaking after an...
President Biden is trying to stitch back together his 2020 coalition as he goes into the general election with a much more fractured Democratic Party than four years ago. Biden has focused on union workers and Black voters in pivotal states of Michigan and Nevada in recent days, underscoring his need to rebuild and solidify the coalition...
Democrats are pressing President Biden to take on his third-party and independent opponents amid concerns they could seriously damage him in November. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West and Jill Stein have all sparked party-wide fears that they could earn enough votes to help former President Trump win back the Oval Office. So far, Biden has...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's warning about the “unsustainable” national debt is raising questions about the depth of the country's fiscal woes among some economists who see the Fed as part of the problem. Powell warned in an interview released Sunday that the U.S. is on a dangerous path after running up a $34 trillion national...
Life, liberty — and a clean environment? A national coalition of environmental activists is trying to amend state constitutions to establish a guaranteed right to a safe climate or a clean environment — analogous to the right to freedom of religion or freedom of speech. They argue that such language, which the constitutions of Pennsylvania,...
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) lost a significant battle to former President Trump and his supporters with the collapse of the bipartisan border bill Tuesday, underscoring how his control of his conference is increasingly on difficult ground. McConnell argued to colleagues last week that the border legislation would crack down on the huge flow...
Former President Trump left the White House in 2021 under the cloud of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, rendering him politically toxic after he refused to accept his election loss. His first administration was marked by rapid turnover — from the public firing of the FBI director to a revolving door of chiefs...
Immigration concerns are threatening to tank Democrats’ chances at flipping the seat formerly held by ex-Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.). Republicans have sought to tie former Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) to President Biden’s immigration policies ahead of the special election next week as members of Congress haggle over a bipartisan border security bill. The attacks underscore...
Following Nevada's Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, where Nikki Haley was the only candidate on the ballot, Donald Trump is the only major contender in Thursday's GOP caucus