Susan Rice, Barack Obama's longtime national security adviser, declined Wednesday to testify before a Senate subcommittee about Russian activities during the 2016 election campaign.
The executive order President Trump is expected to sign Thursday will be focused on the Johnson Amendment and allow non-profit organizations to deny certain health coverage for religious reasons, administration sources told Fox News Wednesday.
The White House declined to respond Wednesday to CBS talk show host Stephen Colbert's joke about President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that some critics are calling "homophobic."
The bipartisan, $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill passed Wednesday by the House finances agency operations through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year.
The House on Wednesday approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill, with Democrats and Republicans both jockeying to claim at least partial victory as the measure goes to the Senate for final approval.
The two biggest names in Democratic politics – yes, that’s still Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton – incrementally are making their return to the public eye, after an apparent waiting period as President Trump settled into the Oval Office job the former held and the latter sought.
Jimmy Kimmel’s poignant 13-minute monologue detailing the birth of his son Billy and the subsequent surgery to repair the baby’s heart may have in a matter of hours done what few late-night hosts have: swayed a policy debate in Washington.
President Trump met Wednesday with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the White House, pressing him to do more to combat and condemn terrorism – while voicing confidence he can help mediate a lasting Middle East peace agreement.
As a gridlocked Congress threatens to stall the legislative promises that catapulted him to office, President Trump has raised hackles on the Hill by suggesting longstanding Senate rules simply be scrapped to cripple Democratic opposition.
FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday strongly defended his decision to announce his reopened probe into Hillary Clinton's private email use less than two weeks before the presidential election, saying it was a “hard choice” but the right one.
Despite the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of forfeiture laws in the early 1800s, they remained largely dormant until the 1980s when the practice saw a tremendous expansion that has lasted to this day.
More than two decades before he railed against Donald Trump’s “temperament” and “core values,” a young Barack Obama dreamed of becoming the billionaire businessman.
The vast grove of museums stretching from the U.S. Capitol across the fringes of the National Mall is about to get a new addition, albeit a decidedly less secular one: The Museum of the Bible.
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney responded Wednesday to a heartfelt appeal to lawmakers by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel that children not be denied care because of pre-existing conditions – with Mulvaney saying he agrees, and Republicans aren’t looking to kick people off their health care.
Iran is using the billions in cash resources provided under the landmark nuclear deal to engage in an unprecedented military buildup meant to transform the Islamic Republic's fighting force into an "offensive" juggernaut, according to a largely unreported announcement by Iranian military leaders that has sparked concern among U.S. national security insiders and sources on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., stepped up to bat for former President Barack Obama on Tuesday after he was criticized for accepting $400,000 for a speech at a Wall Street firm's healthcare conference in September.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., stepped up to bat for former President Barack Obama on Tuesday after he was criticized for accepting $400,000 for a speech at a Wall Street firm's healthcare conference in September.