Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, said Wednesday she hopes Congress "puts politics aside" and quickly approves funding for Harvey disaster relief.
The head of President Donald Trump's voter integrity commission is reaching out to fellow panel members to ensure the group's meeting next month operates with "the highest levels of transparency," after the Justice Department fell on its sword about prior document disclosure failures to a federal judge in DC Wednesday.
The US military has deployed more than 6,000 active-duty troops to aid response efforts in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, with an additional 1,100 prepared to deploy, according to the Department of Defense.
The US Air Force took over the NATO mission responsible for ensuring the security of Baltic airspace Wednesday, a move that comes amid increased Russian air activity in the region and just weeks before Moscow plans to launch a massive military exercise that has put the region on edge.
Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana. To mark the solemn anniversary, this week's #TBT looks back on one of the more joyful moments of her too-short life.
The lawyer for a close ally of President Donald Trump fought back against some of the most explosive allegations included in a Russia dossier and argued that congressional investigators should be searching for the donors who paid for it.
The Trump administration is looking at whether the state attorneys general who are pushing for a decision on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program would be willing to extend their deadline of September 5 for action from Trump, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
As President Donald Trump weighs scrapping protections for nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants, focus is intensifying on Capitol Hill on whether congressional leadership can reach a deal to continue the popular Obama-era program.
With floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey swallowing entire Texas cities, the US military is mobilizing its resources from states across the country to help local law enforcement and civilian volunteers in the rescue effort.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that "talking is not the answer" when it comes to reining in North Korea -- seeming to contradict a statement from his top diplomat that the US will continue to seek a peaceful resolution to tensions with Pyongyang despite its provocative missile tests.
Email correspondence, flight manifests, hotel bills, credit card statements and Federal Election Commission filings will all be deployed as evidence of an alleged bribery scheme carried out for seven years by New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez and an associate, according to a new brief filed by prosecutors in federal court Wednesday.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday will begin in earnest the effort of selling a sweeping overhaul of the tax code, pitching Republican plans as a boon for the middle class ahead of members of Congress' return to Washington.
Sen. Kamala Harris is the first Democrat to announce she'll co-sponsor Sen. Bernie Sanders' single-payer health care bill when it's introduced in September.
A preliminary investigation into contact between Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and two Alaska senators regarding support for health care legislation has been dropped, the Interior Department inspector general said Wednesday.
Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden is seeking information from the FBI and the Department of Energy about a Trump administration appointee who says there is an ongoing federal investigation into "cyber attacks and Internet crimes" committed against him.
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