Powerful GOP lawmaker Darrell Issa dropped a bomb this week when he said he would not defend his House seat in November, but the California congressman may yet wind up on the midterm ballot.
The lawyer for a man who says Eliot Spitzer crudely threatened him in a Manhattan restaurant plans to file a formal complaint with New York police investigators as well as a lawsuit against the disgraced ex-governor.
Citing White House encouragement, U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci on Thursday jumped out of the Republican governor's race and into Ohio's U.S. Senate primary in an effort to unseat two-term Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown.
The House voted Thursday to renew a key foreign surveillance program after a heated floor debate, amid mixed messages from President Trump about his support.
President Trump briefly took aim Thursday at a key surveillance program despite his administration's official support for renewing it, suggesting the program was used to "badly surveil and abuse" his campaign based on the "phony" Trump dossier.
President Trump briefly took aim Thursday at a key surveillance program despite his administration's official support for renewing it, suggesting the program was used to "badly surveil and abuse" his campaign based on the "phony" Trump dossier.
The Justice Department’s decision to open the door anew to pot prosecutions across the country is sparking backlash from congressional Republicans in states that allow recreational and medical use of the drug – territory that makes up crucial battlegrounds for the GOP in this year's midterm elections.
The Trump administration announced Thursday that it will open the door for states to impose work requirements for Medicaid recipients, in a major shift that could affect millions of low-income people receiving benefits.
Canadian officials are increasingly worried that President Donald Trump will withdraw the U.S. from NAFTA, the decades-old trilateral trade agreement that Trump has repeatedly maligned, according to multiple reports.
The Vermont Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a bill that would allow the recreational use of marijuana, putting the state on course to become the first in the country to legalize pot by an act of the Legislature rather than through a referendum by voters.
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it is creating a task force to take a fresh look at drug-trafficking and money-laundering operations linked to Hezbollah after an investigative report last month claimed that the Obama administration turned a blind eye to such activities in order to preserve the Iran nuclear deal.
After a tumultuous few months that saw numerous lawmakers accused of sexual misconduct, a majority of state legislatures across the country are considering strengthening sexual harassment policies that have gone unheeded or unchanged for years.
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens acknowledged he was "unfaithful" in his marriage but denied allegations that he blackmailed the woman with whom he had the affair.
A high-ranking Obama administration official unlawfully billed taxpayers more than $4,000 for taxi rides from his home to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office headquarters, an internal investigation has found.
Female lawmakers are calling on their colleagues to wear all black, in solidarity of support for the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement, to President Trump’s State of Union at the end of the month.
A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday barred the Trump administration from turning back the Obama-era DACA program, Reuters reported, citing the judge’s ruling.
A Center for American Progress (CAP) Action Fund memo obtained by The Daily Caller admits the Democratic Party needs to protect illegal immigrants brought here by DACA in order to insure getting votes.
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