Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks during a press conference with the other House impeachment managers before the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump resumes at the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. Caroline Brehman | CQ-Roll Call | Getty Images WASHINGTON – A former acting undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security accused top
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Democratic presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden speaks on the state of the US economy on September 4, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is tapping some of the most experienced trade professionals in Washington to help chart a new course on
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Cwalks pass the Ohio Clock Corridor on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., the United States, Aug. 10, 2020. Ting Shen | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images The Senate will vote on a coronavirus stimulus bill as early as this week, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday. In a
Officials in North Carolina are scrambling to counteract President Donald Trump’s call for residents of the state to attempt to vote twice in the upcoming contest for the White House, issuing a notice on Thursday warning voters that doing so intentionally is a felony. Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board
President Donald Trump in East Room of the White House in Washington. Leah Millis | Reuters A super PAC led by a group of “Never Trump” Republicans is planning to unleash a Facebook grassroots army in its latest effort to erode support for President Donald Trump. The Lincoln Project on Friday will launch the new initiative,
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to residents during a community meeting at Grace Lutheran Church after a week of unrest in the aftermath of the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by a white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, September 3, 2020. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters WASHINGTON —
The Trump administration and Congress have agreed to pass a bill to avoid a government shutdown without tying funding to separate measures such as coronavirus relief, Vice President Mike Pence said Friday. Approving a continuing resolution, which would temporarily set federal spending at current levels, would not inject the heated politics of pandemic aid into efforts
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks following the ceremonial swearing-in of James Mattis as secretary of defense on January 27, 2017, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON — Surrogates for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, including two military veterans and a Gold Star father, ripped into President Donald Trump on
An election worker opens envelopes containing vote-by-mail ballots for the August 4 Washington state primary at King County Elections in Renton, Washington on August 3, 2020. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images The contest between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden has officially entered the voting phase. North Carolina was scheduled
National security advisor, John Bolton, right, attends a meeting with President Donald Trump and President of Chile, Sebastian Piñera in the Oval Office of the White House on September 28, 2018 in Washington, DC. Oliver Contreras | The Washington Post | Getty Images Former national security advisor John Bolton said Friday that President Donald Trump‘s
WASHINGTON — A furious Joe Biden demanded Friday that President Donald Trump “humbly apologize” to the families of fallen U.S. service members following reports that Trump called them “losers” and “suckers.” Biden, the Democratic nominee, invoked the military history of his own son — Beau Biden, who died of cancer in 2015 — as he
President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a Keep America Great Rally at the Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky, November 4, 2019. Yuri Gripas | Reuters James wants Eric Trump, who runs the Trump Organization with his brother, Donald Trump Jr., to testify in the investigation, and is also seeking thousands of pages of documents related
President Donald Trump is seen tapping the screen on a mobile phone at the approximate time a tweet was released from his Twitter account, during a roundtable discussion on the reopening of small businesses in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 18, 2020. Leah Millis | Reuters Twitter on
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden discusses his plan to safely reopen schools amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic during a speech in Wilmington, Delaware, September 2, 2020. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Wednesday that if he were president, he would direct the Federal
Joe Biden is still beating President Donald Trump in most general election polls – but averages of recent surveys show signs that the Democratic nominee’s lead is narrowing slightly following the parties’ national conventions. A shift in the wake of the nominating conventions is hardly unprecedented, and most national polls indicate no dramatic bump for
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Tuesday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will invoke its authority to halt evictions through the end of the year in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The moratorium – a draft of which was posted to the Federal Register – is the
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told CNBC on Tuesday that aid to state and local governments poses the biggest obstacle to a pandemic relief deal, even as “real progress” was being made between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats have pushed for nearly $1 trillion in aid to municipalities hit by revenue shortfalls as a result
U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies before a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on slowdowns at the Postal Service ahead of the November elections on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., August 24, 2020. Tom Williams | Reuters House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said Monday that she plans to issue a subpoena to Postmaster General Louis