It wasn't even an hour after we took off for South Korea on Air Force Two after a refueling stop in Alaska that a few of the vice president's aides came back to the press cabin to tell us what was probably inevitable: North Korea had just tried to launch a rocket.
National security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster talked up the US relationship with the current government of Afghanistan Sunday at a time when the US is considering increasing its military commitment there.
North Korea is still on its way to having the ability to hit any part of the US with a nuclear missile despite a failed test over the weekend, the House foreign affairs committee chairman said Sunday.
President Donald Trump suggested Sunday that his about-face on labeling China a currency manipulator was a strategic move meant to entice the country's cooperation on North Korea.
The US must not get involved in "perpetual warfare in the Middle East," Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday in explaining why he was one of the few senators to oppose the recent US missile strike on Syria.
It was supposed to be a slow week in Washington. Congress was gone for the Passover and Easter holidays. President Donald Trump was headed to Mar-a-Lago -- natch -- for a long weekend with promises that it would be newsless.
President Donald Trump's launch of two major military strikes in the last two weeks raises a question about his 2016 declaration that the US can no longer be the world's policeman: Has Trump changed his mind?
Top Republicans in Washington are privately sending this message to a GOP congressman once viewed as a top recruit in North Dakota: Don't run against Sen. Heidi Heitkamp next year.
President Donald Trump will nominate former members of Congress Scott Garrett and Spencer Bachus to two vacant positions at the US Export-Import Bank -- an entity Trump has in the past called "excess baggage" and agreed with conservatives on shutting down.
A Democrat on the House intelligence committee flew to Cyprus this week as part of the panel's broad investigation into allegations that Russian operatives and top aides on President Donald Trump's campaign colluded to influence the US election.
Representative Jerry Nadler has guaranteed that it won't be the Democrats who shut down the government over Obamacare payments. Speaking to CNN's Kate Boulduan, the New York Democrat made it clear any shutdown would be "the Republicans' decision because they have a majority in both houses."
Former Vice President Joe Biden condemned reported anti-LGBT violence in the Russian republic of Chechnya and called on President Donald Trump's administration to raise the issue directly with Russians in a statement to CNN Friday.
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