The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to allow staffers on Capitol Hill to unionize, a major development for labor activists who have pushed for the option for years.
Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, along with her deputies Belinda Knisley and Julie Fisher, will not be allowed to oversee 2022 elections in the county, a Colorado district judge ruled Tuesday, marking the second time Peters has been removed from the same post.
Reflecting on the Cuban missile crisis, President John Kennedy once warned that nuclear powers "must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war."
Former President Donald Trump's candidates had mixed success in Republican primaries in West Virginia and Nebraska Tuesday night, underscoring the complicated dynamics between the de facto leader of the GOP and voters who support him but don't always back his candidates.
GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa released a staff report Tuesday concluding that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, the Biden administration's nominee to be US ambassador to India, "likely knew, or should have known," that his former political adviser Rick Jacobs "was sexually harassing multiple individuals and making racist comments towards others."
Prosecutors in Georgia investigating former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election have interviewed several individuals who served as fake GOP electors from the state, according to two sources familiar with the ongoing criminal probe.
It's Election Day in West Virginia and Nebraska, where key primary races of the 2022 election cycle are taking place. The races, which will test former President Donald Trump's influence over the Republican Party, include this year's first US House member-vs.-member matchup in West Virginia and a controversial, Trump-backed candidate facing off with the Republican supported by the state's term limited governor, Pete Ricketts.
President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that his administration is currently evaluating how to best move forward on existing tariffs on China enacted during the Trump administration, but he cautioned that no decision has been made.
The US intelligence community believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine is likely to become "more unpredictable and escalatory" in the coming months, the nation's top spymaster told Congress on Tuesday.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said the removal of not only Vladimir Putin, but the entire regime that supports him, is necessary to stop Russia's "warmongering" and predicted the Kremlin leader will become increasingly erratic as his battlefield losses grow in Ukraine.
The US intelligence community believes that China is actively attempting to build a military capable of taking over Taiwan -- even in the face of US support for the island, top US intelligence officials told Congress Tuesday.
The Democratic-led House of Representatives voted 368-57 on Tuesday evening to pass a roughly $40 billion bill to deliver aid to Ukraine as it continues to face Russia's brutal assault.
West Virginia and Nebraska are holding key GOP primary elections Tuesday that will continue to test the the power of former President Trump's endorsement. Follow here for the latest news updates, results and analysis.
Goods and services are getting much more expensive, and gas prices have hit another high. The recognized cure for inflation is to raise interest rates and slow the economy. But those hikes will hurt too, leading to job and wage losses.
A bipartisan group of more than 100 mayors on Tuesday endorsed President Joe Biden's nominee to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as the White House races to garner enough support to get Steve Dettelbach confirmed by the Senate.
Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper was asked a very simple question by Fox's Bret Baier on Monday: "Do you think Donald Trump was a threat to democracy?"
President Joe Biden on Tuesday is gearing up to blast Republicans and Russia's war in Ukraine for troubling economic news as he tries to shift focus away from mounting worries that are threatening his party in this year's elections.
Fewer competitive House districts means that some of 2022's most consequential congressional elections are happening well before November. The real action in many districts is this spring and summer as Republican and Democratic candidates jockey for their parties' nominations.
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