National Politics

When former Olympian and reality TV personality Caitlyn Jenner announced that she planned to challenge California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in the…

New mask guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week has divided experts and fueled a new debate about the best way to…

Congressional Democrats are not waiting around for President Joe Biden to propose big changes they want to see in the nation’s health care…

Weeks before Elizabeth Warren launched her first senatorial campaign, she made a call to a woman she said was a longtime Democratic activist in…

As the US began turning over military bases to the Afghan security forces Saturday, the top US general warned of the potential for “bad…

Several Senate Republicans insisted on Sunday that they were open to a bipartisan deal on a narrow infrastructure plan, despite slamming the size and…

Republicans Susan Wright and Jake Ellzey will advance to a runoff in the special election for Texas’ 6th Congressional District. CNN projected…

Cindy McCain said Sunday that if her late husband, Arizona Sen. John McCain, were alive, he would be watching the US’ approach to withdrawing…

White House officials on Sunday denied Iranian state media reports that the US has reached an agreement with Iran to lift economic sanctions against…

Sen. Susan Collins said Sunday that she was “appalled” to see fellow Republican Sen. Mitt Romney was booed by members of his state party…

Here’s a look at the life of former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Personal Birth date: May 15, 1937 Birth place: Prague,…

Things have been quieter around here in presidential-fact-check land. Not because President Joe Biden is accurate all the time. He certainly…

Letters signed by President Joe Biden have begun to go out notifying beneficiaries of their direct payments under the administration’s Covid…

The Biden administration disclosed Trump-era rules on Friday regulating the use of deadly force against terrorism suspects abroad, releasing them…

The Treasury Department’s special inspector general for pandemic recovery is warning of “reduced oversight” of two Covid relief…

The FBI in late 2019 knew Rudy Giuliani was the target of a Russian influence operation intended to damage now-President Joe Biden in the 2020…

The Biden administration will maintain the National Space Council and Vice President Kamala Harris will chair it, according to senior administration…

Progressives in the House were apprehensive when Joe Biden stepped into office — the President was an unabashedly moderate Democrat and ready…

Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos will not run for reelection in 2022 after a decade in office and disappointing Democrats in her 2020 performance as the…

Republicans have seized on a recent claim that former Secretary of State John Kerry told Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif about Israeli strikes…

Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is suing Interior Department officials including Secretary Deb Haaland for declining to grant a permit for a…

President Joe Biden’s major public — and prime time — push this week for his sweeping $4 trillion economic agenda was only one…

In his first major policy speech, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin laid out a vision of warfare starkly different from how “the last of the old…

Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Matt Gaetz of Florida have a lot in common. As each lawmaker increasingly finds themselves at…

One signature now stands between Florida voters and a slew of new restrictions on casting ballots in the Sunshine State. After days of contentious…

More than a dozen Army officers and non-commissioned soldiers face disciplinary actions related to the response to Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén‘s…

At the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix, workers line up in their cars to check in with uniformed security. As each car files into the…