U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand formally launched her presidential bid on Sunday morning, announcing she will deliver her first major speech next week in front of Trump International Hotel in New York City. Gillibrand, who launched an explorator... Read more
One of former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s supporters from his 2018 Senate campaign has been reaching out to top Democratic Party donors to see if they will back him to run for president in 2020. Louis Susman, former U.S. ambassador to... Read more
President Donald Trump will “make his decision” on whether to pardon his former campaign chief Paul Manafort “when he’s ready,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday. The comments from Sande... Read more
Nearly all Senate Democrats running for president in 2020 have embraced a massive overhaul of how students pay for college. Four of the six senators in the Democratic primary co-sponsored legislation aiming to make public college debt-free, whic... Read more
Business advocacy groups are going on the offensive against a financial transaction tax that’s been proposed by Democrats as a way to curtail high-frequency trading and reduce the budget deficit. Groups from the political arm of the influe... Read more
Two of President Donald Trump’s biggest allies in Congress on Thursday told the Justice Department that Michael Cohen appears to have lied in his sworn testimony to Congress, where he made a slew of damning claims against Trump. House Over... Read more
The United States is planning to delay a menu of additional Chinese tariffs that were scheduled to begin on March 1, President Donald Trump announced on Sunday, as the world’s two largest economies hash out a definitive end to a wide rangi... Read more
Federal prosecutors, including current Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, violated the rights of sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein’s victims during their investigation of the once-influential financier a decade ago, a judge ruled on Thursday. U.S. Di... Read more
The government’s top ethics watchdog disclosed Tuesday that it had refused to certify a financial disclosure report from Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. In a filing, the Office of Government Ethics said it wouldn’t certify the 2018 a... Read more
Justice Department officials were so concerned about President Donald Trump’s fitness for office in May 2017 that they discussed whether Trump could be removed from office by convincing Vice President Mike Pence and a majority of the presi... Read more
