The Democratic Party's draft platform calls for the Justice Department to join several state prosecutors in investigating whether fossil fuel companies misled the public on global warming -- marking an escalation in a controversial campaign that critics liken to censorship.
In the thick of mosquito season, Congress is about to start its holiday break with no deal on money to combat the Zika virus -- and no signs that a compromise is looming in the five-month debate.
Quoting a founding father is standard campaign fare -- but Democratic congressional candidate Oliver Rosenberg raised eyebrows this week by attributing a quote from the musical "Hamilton" to the actual historical figure.
Secretary of State John Kerry faced swift criticism Wednesday for suggesting the terror attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport was evidence the Islamic State is getting “desperate” – an assessment one top Republican official said “defies reality.”
Democratic primary voters in Colorado and Utah on Tuesday chose two transgender women as their nominees in House and Senate races -- making them the first transgender candidates for Congress on a major-party ticket.
Residents of a remote county in eastern Oregon where an armed group seized a federal wildlife refuge have voted overwhelmingly to keep in office a top local official who had denied the occupiers access to a county building.
Republican Gov. Gary Herbert easily defeated Overstock.com executive Jonathan Johnson Tuesday to win a closely watched primary race that helped boost voter turnout to the highest level in two decades.
Republican National Convention crews are working essentially around the clock to get the Cleveland venue ready for the July 18 start, event organizers said Tuesday, giving a glimpse into the scramble to deliver on what Donald Trump promises will be a star-powered convention like no other.
Hillary Clinton claimed Tuesday that the final report issued by the House Republican investigation into the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi terror attack “had found nothing,” and that it’s time to “move on.”
The U.S. Consulate is working to see whether any Americans were among the victims in Tuesday’s attack at an Istanbul Airport, a State Department spokesman told Fox News.
Republican National Convention crews are working essentially around the clock to get the Cleveland venue ready for the July 18 start, event organizers said Tuesday, giving a glimpse into the scramble to deliver on what Donald Trump promises will be a star-powered convention like no other.
More than 2,000 illegal immigrants were turned loose on American streets after serving prison sentences last year - often because their home countries refused to take them back - and many subsequently committed crimes including rape and murder, a key lawmaker charged Monday.
Scott Stump had the idea for a Persian Gulf War memorial years ago. But it wasn’t until the 25th anniversary of the 1991 cease-fire arrived – and the Pentagon chose not to hold a single official event marking the day – that he truly realized how important it was.
Republican Donald Trump took aim at U.S. free trade deals in a speech delivered in Western Pennsylvania Tuesday that painted his likely Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as a champion of the kind of globalization that has pushed manufacturing jobs overseas.
It’s every reporter and editor’s nightmare -- an incorrect front page headline. And the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star published one for the ages on Tuesday, when the Virginia newspaper wrongly claimed on its front page that Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe just had his corruption conviction thrown out by the Supreme Court.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign strongly refuted the highly controversial House Benghazi Committee report released Tuesday, accusing the Republican-led committee of playing election-year politics and “refusing to issue its report on a bipartisan basis.”
EXCLUSIVE: In 2014, a single U.S. government agency was hit with a blizzard of more than 1,370 external attacks on its most vital computer systems, with three out of every eight incidents resulting in a loss of data, according to a new report by the watchdog Government Accountability Office, suggesting hackers have been far more successful at getting at sensitive government information than previously disclosed.
