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Donald Trump's chief White House strategist Steve Bannon said in 2013 that Sen. Joseph McCarthy was right in his 1950s campaign claiming widespread Communist infiltration into the United States government.

Twitter briefly suspended David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader, on Monday.

Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota summed up how it felt like to lose the Democratic National Committee race on February 25 in two words: "It sucked."

US Marine Corps officers on Monday huddled on how to proceed with tackling a new and shocking scandal: the online posting of potentially hundreds of explicit photos of current and former female Marines and other service members on a private Facebook page.

Iraq was removed from a revised version of an executive order banning travel from certain Muslim-majority countries after intensive lobbying from the Iraqi government at the highest levels, a senior US official told CNN Monday.

President Donald Trump's updated executive order on travel appears to offer more flexibility to would-be travelers than its January predecessor, spelling out several exemptions to the ban on nationals from six designated countries, and giving others wiggle room to apply for waivers.

The Trump administration's second swipe at a travel ban and temporary suspension of the US refugee resettlement program has met with swift backlash from leading human rights groups and activist opponents, who are already planning protests in response to the Monday order.

CNN's Jake Tapper weighs in on President Donald Trump's baseless claim that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The cast of "Underground" has a message for those who say they are tired of slave narratives: We don't have the luxury to turn away from such painful stories.

"The chairman's flight," as Port Authority Chairman David Samson called it, perfectly fit his schedule.

ESPN will lay off some of the personalities who appear on TV, radio and online.

More than 300 staff members at Alexandria City Public Schools have requested leave for "A Day Without a Woman" this Wednesday, prompting school closure for the day.

In his first remarks to agency personnel, HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson referred to the people who crossed the Atlantic in the bottom of a slave ship as "immigrants."

It's only been public for three days, but Snap Inc.'s successful market debut might be just what the IPO market needs.

President Trump has announced a new executive order on immigration. It is a slightly more lenient version of the extremely controversial "travel ban" he issued in February -- Iraq has been exempted, leaving six instead of seven Muslim-majority countries on the list.

Former White House officials are strongly refuting President Donald Trump's stunning allegation that his predecessor, Barack Obama, wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 election.

A six-day reprieve in Chicago's shooting deaths ended this weekend with the killing of a 32-year-old man whose body was found in a vacant lot on the west side of the city, police said.