A Kentucky Senate panel heard testimony last week from a woman who says she was coerced into marrying at age 16. She urged lawmakers to pass legislation making marriage only for adults -- and curb an endemic child-marriage problem in the state.
President Trump on Thursday threatened to pull U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from California if state officials continue to refuse to assist federal agents in immigration initiatives.
Tennessee investigators say they have found nude photos of a woman on a phone belonging to Nashville Mayor Megan Barry's former bodyguard, along with evidence of deleted messages they believe proves the pair engaged in an extramarital affair while the guard was on duty.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed a 32-count indictment Thursday hitting former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and aide Rick Gates with fresh charges of tax evasion and bank fraud.
Missouri Governor Eric Greitens was indicted Thursday by a St. Louis grand jury on a felony invasion of privacy charge stemming from a March 2015 incident.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected to recommend to President Trump that transgender people can serve in the U.S. military if they can deploy overseas, a U.S. official with knowledge of the secretary’s thinking on the issue told Fox News Thursday.
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro on Thursday told activists that the “era of political correctness is over” in the age of Donald Trump as president, while encouraging conservatives to fight liberalism with the “truth.”
President Trump on Thursday floated the possibility of paying teachers a “bonus” to carry concealed firearms, stressing the importance of school security even as he calls for strengthening gun laws in the wake of the Parkland mass shooting.
A former State Department official and associate of Sen. John McCain has invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to testify in connection with questions from the House Intelligence Committee about the anti-Trump dossier’s Russian sources, according to a law enforcement source.
Vice President Pence fired back Thursday at the “fawning” media coverage of Kim Jong Un’s sister during their appearance at the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Winter Games, reminding reporters that she represents the “most oppressive regime on the planet.”
A former Florida state Republican who was hailed as a “good and decent man” by his onetime Democratic opponent plunged to his death Monday night after leaping off a highway overpass.
The centerpiece of a New Yorker story on Karen McDougal, who says she had an affair with Donald Trump, is scribbled notes kept by the former Playboy playmate. But they were written years after the purported events.
Right-wing French former parliamentarian Marion Maréchal-Le Pen warned the Conservative Political Action Committee Thursday about the dangers of Islamic mass migration and said that France should embrace a French version of Trump’s “America First.”