A top Republican recruit announced Monday she wouldn't challenge Sen. Claire McCaskill for her Senate seat in 2018, sparing the Missouri Democrat a potentially stiff challenge in the high-stakes midterm elections next year.
The majority of Americans -- seven in 10 -- say the level of civility in Washington has declined since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds.
Downing Street has said it is "not aware" of any plans for US President Donald Trump to visit the UK in the next few weeks, after British media reported that he would visit Scotland following the G20 Summit in Germany next weekend.
US President Donald Trump spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Sunday night over the threat from North Korea's nuclear program.
President Trump plans to focus heavily on disputes in Syria and Ukraine, two urgent challenges for the White House, during his meeting this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to administration officials.
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday denied an allegation that his office might have pressured a Vermont bank to speed up the loan process for a real estate acquisition his wife Jane orchestrated for Burlington College while president of the school.
Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse on Sunday clarified his suggestion that lawmakers "repeal and then replace" Obamacare, saying if Republicans can't agree on a replacement plan in the next week or so, they should repeal the law "with a delay" and then agree on a replacement plan later.
Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse said Sunday that he is troubled by President Donald Trump's latest attacks on the news media because he is concerned about the danger of "weaponizing distrust," which can harm the freedoms that define a democracy.
A defiant President Donald Trump resumed his attacks on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on Saturday morning, calling Scarborough "crazy" and Brzezinski "dumb as a rock," despite days of bipartisan criticism over his initial attacks on the pair earlier this week.
The fundraising power of the President's media-bashing, several wrinkles to watch in the Senate health care debate, a testy month for the GOP in Alabama and the changing tone of US-China diplomacy: It's all in this week's Inside Politics forecast.
A US Navy destroyer on Sunday sailed within 12 miles of a disputed island in the South China Sea that is claimed by China, a US military official told CNN.
