Politics

President Donald Trump signaled that infrastructure could be a key area of focus next year, which has been a priority for Democrats for decades. Democratic congressional leaders, however, are coming ...

WASHINGTON—Unless U.S.–China trade talks wrap up successfully by March 1, new tariffs will be imposed, U.S. Trade Representative ...

The United States on Dec. 10 placed sanctions on three senior officials of North Korea's communist regime for ...

Maria Butina, allegedly an unregistered agent of the Russian government, is ready to change her previous not guilty ...

Some Californians who were listed as poll voters in county data were classified as voting by mail in ...

WASHINGTON—Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, Nick Ayers, announced Dec. 9 that he will be leaving by ...

A controversial and classified document, alleging potential misconduct by former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, resurfaced on Dec. 7, ...

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said Saturday that chief of staff John Kelly will leave his job by year's end ...

President Donald Trump said he will nominate former Attorney General William Barr to return to lead the Justice ...

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump announced on Dec. 7, he's nominating State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert to be the next ...

A new supervisor of elections was sworn in this week in Broward County, Florida, one of the most ...

The Democrat trailing in a North Carolina congressional race withdrew his concession on Dec. 6 as state election ...

As former FBI Director James Comey heads to Washington to testify before the House committees on Friday, Dec. ...

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said Friday he will nominate William Barr, former President George H.W. Bush's attorney general, to ...

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration, which has had strained relations with technology companies, met on Dec. 6 with top tech ...

There are few people left in the FBI and the Justice Department (DOJ) who were involved in the ...

A crucial email string sent by top FBI and Justice Department (DOJ) officials in late 2016 is expected ...

WASHINGTON—On the same day John O’Brien was appointed as the next senior adviser to the Health and Human Services (HHS) ...

The U.S. Interior Department on Dec. 6, proposed easing Obama-era protections for a bird, the greater sage grouse, ...

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is expected on Dec. 6, to roll back an Obama-era rule requiring new coal plants ...

The U.S. Postal Service should charge businesses more to mail packages, monetize its exclusive access to mailboxes, and ...

WASHINGTON—Two U.S. senators from opposite sides of the aisle are proposing legislation that would close a loophole in ...

Bill Priestap, assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division, is retiring by the end of the year. After ...

President Donald Trump and the GOP have paid significant attention to attracting black and Latino voters, but so ...

Republicans in Wisconsin passed legislation on Dec. 5 that will weaken the power of the governor and attorney ...

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who ran against President Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican primary, said that ...

TIJUANA, Mexico—Leslie Yoana Coban left her four children in Honduras—on her ex-husband’s doorstep. She told them she was ...