Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden sought Thursday night to limit the political damage after he said in an earlier interview that the Latino ...
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden appears to have doubled down on his praise of "diversity" within the Latino community "unlike" the ...
President Trump had a plan. He would squeeze the president of Ukraine, a U.S. ally in desperate need of our help, to assist Trump in his reelection campaign.
New York's attorney general announced civil action to dissolve the National Rifle Association after an investigation found millions of dollars in alleged fraud by ...
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced she will attempt to dissolve the National Rifle Association, accusing its senior leadership of violating laws ...
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a bombshell suit Thursday seeking to disband the National Rifle Association and alleging that top execs ...
New York City's recovery from the depths of COVID-19 has prompted a nagging question: How are people supposed to get around by subway and bus in the ...
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday suggested that Gov. Andrew Cuomo was wrong to call on wealthy New Yorkers to return to the city amid the ...
When it comes to explaining New York's crime spike, Mayor Bill de Blasio can't even keep his excuses straight. So why should anyone think he'll be able to do ...
With the resignation of New York City's health commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, this week, the city finds itself again at a precarious point. With COVID-19 spiking ...
President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order that would ban the social media app TikTok and WeChat from operating in the US in 45 days if ...
Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday meant to block all business with ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, starting 45 days from now.
After weeks of threatening to ban the wildly popular video-sharing app TikTok, the Trump administration has offered a 45-day reprieve to let Microsoft Corp.
A life sentence handed down to a Black man for stealing a pair of hedge clippers more than two decades ago was upheld by the Louisiana Supreme Court last ...
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season will be "extremely active," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday in its revised forecast.
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is racking up storms at breakneck speed. To date, the season is about two weeks ahead of record pace and it's only one ...
Colorado State University Tropical and Climate Research has issued a mid-season update on Atlantic basin tropical weather this year, and the news isn't good.
Susan Rice is an Oxford-educated foreign policy specialist who—unlike the rest of those believed to be on Joe Biden's running mate shortlist—has never held ...
Former Vice President Joe Biden is taking some heat for postponing the announcement of his choice of a running mate, a decision he once suggested would be ...
A three-hour meeting Thursday evening between senior administration officials and Democratic leaders yielded little progress as both sides seemed resigned to ...
President Donald Trump said he is preparing executive action as soon as Friday on student loan payments, as emergency relief for nearly 40 million federal ...
The Tennessee Senate Republican primary may have taken a competitive turn in its final weeks, but Bill Hagerty proved that for red-state candidates in the ...
Polls are open in Tennessee where two Republicans who tout their support for President Trump but bash each other are facing off in a Senate primary Thursday ...
Trump's request for an earlier presidential debate is denied. After a member of his V.P. search committee reportedly criticized Kamala Harris, Joe Biden said she ...
Democrats often talk about Donald Trump as though he's Bowser in the Super Mario games. Once he is defeated, the game is over. Good vanquished evil, the ...
At least two high school students at North Paulding High School in Dallas, Ga., have been suspended after sharing images of how congested their hallways ...
North Paulding High School students have reportedly been suspended over voicing their concern over how the school is managing coronavirus safety protocol.
The widely circulated photo from North Paulding High School in Dallas, Ga., showed students crowded into a packed hallway on their first day back to classes ...
The debate over reopening schools rages on, but that didn't stop multiple school districts in Georgia from welcoming students back for in person instruction this ...
At least six operatives who have been prominently involved in the Republican political world have been linked to Kanye West's captivating 11th-hour ...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell went to bed Tuesday night with one less fear of losing his gavel, his grip on power threatened by one fewer fringy ...
Facebook removed hundreds of accounts on Thursday from a foreign troll farm posing as African-Americans in support of Donald Trump and QAnon supporters.
The Washington Post sparked massive confusion Wednesday evening after erroneously reporting that President Trump was banned from tweeting because of a ...
Twitter said on Wednesday it had restricted President Donald Trump's campaign from tweeting after its account shared a video containing false claims about the ...
Is it possible that President Trump could do a worse job handling the covid-19 pandemic, causing even more needless illness and death? I fear we're about to ...
Donald Trump lies. The man lies about crowd sizes. The man lies about voter fraud. The man lies about medical science. The man lies so much that news outlets ...
Michelle Obama said that she's dealing with "some form of low-grade depression" due to the coronavirus lockdown, racial strife in the U.S., and the Trump ...
Former First Lady Michelle Obama says she's suffering from a "low-grade depression." The reasons? The pandemic, race relations in the US and the political ...
On the latest episode of her new podcast, Michelle Obama talked about home life with husband Barack Obama and their collage-age daughters, Malia and ...
President Trump visited Ohio on Thursday for official and campaign business, targeting a battleground state where he finds himself in a tight race with ...
President Trump can't postpone E. Jean Carroll's defamation case against him by using an immunity defense, a judge ruled Thursday --citing a recent Supreme ...
More than one million customers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were without power for a third day since Tropical Storm Isaias battered the region.
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers were still without power Thursday after Tropical Storm Isaias unleashed its wrath this week — and some may not get the ...
The governors of New York and Connecticut are launching investigations into utility companies' response to Tropical Storm Isaias, which tore through the ...
With Republicans divided and President Trump undercutting negotiations on a pandemic relief package, the majority leader is in a difficult bind, partly of his own ...
Amid struggles to secure bipartisan agreement over a further stimulus package, barbs continue to fly between lawmakers seeking to attribute blame for the delay ...
Rep. Roger Marshall won the GOP primary for an open Senate seat in Kansas on Tuesday, turning aside the controversial Kris Kobach — to the relief of ...
Rep. Roger Marshall won the Republican Senate nomination in Kansas on Tuesday night, defeating former secretary of state Kris Kobach and easing GOP fears ...
WASHINGTON – Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf defended the federal response to the unrest in Portland, Oregon. He blamed local and state ...
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf on Thursday detailed to senators the assaults that federal law enforcement had been subjected to from rioters in ...
Department of Homeland Security acting secretary Chad Wolf on Thursday defended his handling of the protests in Portland, Ore., and bristled at criticism from ...
Dr. Anthony Fauci has publicly disputed President Donald Trump's repeated claims that his response to the coronavirus pandemic has been among the best in ...
As he continues to help steer the nation through the coronavirus outbreak, top infectious diseases doc Anthony Fauci says he has another worry on his mind ...
Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious-disease expert, says the United States is facing a "concerted challenge" to navigate the resurgent Covid-19 outbreak ...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, said Wednesday drugmakers will likely have tens of millions of coronavirus vaccine doses ready by ...
Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, has found herself a woman without a country, denounced by Democrats and called ...
President Trump on Wednesday announced he is dispatching members of his coronavirus task force to different states to help them tailor their response to the ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis says the portal was designed to frustrate users, "so people just say, oh, the hell with it, I'm not going to do that." Florida has been among the ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rescinded an order requiring people traveling from New Jersey, New York and Connecticut to the Sunshine State ...
In an interview with CNN's Brianna Keilar, Dr. Adrian Burrowes said it is reckless and irresponsible for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to say it is safe to hug with PPE ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Tuesday that it was safe for visitors to nursing homes to hug family members as long as they used personal protective ...
The Minneapolis Star Tribune offered a stunning rebuke of the House Democratic "Squad" Wednesday by endorsing Rep. Ilhan Omar's primary challenger, ...
The Minneapolis Star Tribune is endorsing Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) challenger ahead of next week's primary, saying the first-term lawmaker "wants to lead a ...
The Trump administration is making new inroads into the operations of the US Postal *Service*, raising fears that the agency is degrading services ahead of a ...
Concern over the US Postal *Service* comes as Trump has railed against absentee voting by mail for months, calling it “fraudulent,” and even drawing a ...
The head of the U.S. Postal *Service* acknowledged in a meeting with top Democrats that he instituted new policies restricting overtime and extra mail processing ...
In late June, Arizona was confronting a dramatic rise in Covid-19 cases, forcing officials to reimpose a slew of coronavirus restrictions about two months after the ...
It's Election Day in Tennessee, where Republican Senate candidates are squaring off in a heated primary. Trump and Biden announced huge fund-raising ...
The mail-in ballots of more than 84,000 New York City Democrats who sought to vote in the presidential primary were disqualified, according to new figures ...
With less than six weeks before early voting starts in the U.S. presidential election, the risk of an electoral meltdown is rising along with the country's coronavirus ...
President Trump is suing Nevada over its recent decision to send absentee ballots to all voters, and warning the country “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In ...
The Trump administration and the Democrats are already facing off in court over the planned expansion of mail voting, but Florida already figured out how to ...
The mayor of Los Angeles has said the city will be authorised to shut off water and power to properties where large parties and gatherings are held despite ...
Los Angeles police were dispatched to a wedding reception in the tony Holmby Hills area Wednesday night after receiving multiple noise complaints, hours after ...
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at boosting U.S. production of medicines and medical equipment, lowering drug prices ...
Wielding a rigorous scalpel that would make David Frost envious, Axios reporter Jonathan Swan eviscerated President Trump in an interview that aired Monday.
President Trump's wild interview on HBO's Axios left a lot of people wanting more. “The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon offered just that Tuesday with a funny ...
Alabama State Rep. Will Dismukes, R-Prattville, who last week came under fire for attending a birthday party for the Ku Klux Klan's first leader, has been charged ...
An Alabama state representative who recently made headlines for attending a birthday celebration for an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan is being sought by ...
Alabama state Rep. Will Dismukes (R), who sparked national outrage after attending a private birthday celebration for the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan ...
Video released of five North Carolina detention officers restraining an inmate in a cell shows the prisoner saying "I can't breathe" before he lost consciousness ...
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Body camera videos from a North Carolina jail show a man who died days after his arrest struggling with guards to get up from ...
When Congress authorized the first stimulus checks in the spring, clear rules were included as to who was eligible and who was not. But it turns out that ...
As Congress continues to debate what the second coronavirus stimulus bill will look like, the IRS continues to offer clarifications about the first stimulus payment.
Did you get the wrong amount in your stimulus check? Help may be available sooner than you think. Initially, the Internal Revenue *Service* (IRS) advised that ...
One day before a Friday deadline to reach a deal on the next round of stimulus legislation, top policymakers in Washington are facing deep divisions and ...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., expressed incredulity on Wednesday after receiving a letter from the tony beachside California city of Malibu ...
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Thursday that the Senate will technically be in session next week but signaled he's letting senators leave ...
Amy McGrath is keeping Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell on his toes, after she won the Democratic nomination for Kentucky Senate earlier this summer.
Sen. Bernie Sanders said he will introduce legislation that taxes the "obscene wealth gains" of billionaires during the coronavirus pandemic. Sanders ...
CNBC.com's MacKenzie Sigalos brings you the day's top business news headlines. On today's show, CNBC's Robert Frank explains Senator Bernie Sanders' ...
A 7-year-old African American boy has died of Covid-19 in Georgia, the youngest victim of the virus in the state, according to data compiled by the state health ...
A 7-year-old boy from the Savannah area has died from COVID-19, Georgia health officials reported Thursday, making him the youngest person in the state ...
One day after surpassing 200,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, Georgia crossed another milestone Thursday, recording more than 4,000 coronavirus-related ...
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday it was possible the United States would have a coronavirus vaccine before the Nov. 3 election, a more optimistic ...
President Trump returns to Cleveland Thursday for a fundraiser at the Shoreby Club in Bratenahl. A new poll by Your Voice Ohio and the University of Akron now ...
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday that White House trade adviser Peter Navarro touted as "pure Trump" in an interview with "CBS ...
Late-night hosts mock Trump's floundering interview, from his 'it is what it is' shrug at the Covid death toll to well wishes for Ghislaine Maxwell. Jimmy Fallon on ...
President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has claimed Black Lives Matter is a "domestic terrorist group," despite the group never being tied to a ...
