A top newspaper in Minnesota on Tuesday joined the legal effort to unseal the divorce records of Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., who has been the focus of an investigation into allegations of physical abuse leveled by a former girlfriend.
Rachel Mitchell, an experienced career sex crimes prosecutor, will handle the questioning of Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault decades ago, at a scheduled hearing on Thursday, Senate Republicans announced late Tuesday.
Just days before Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee plan to hold a critical vote on whether to recommend Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, a key swing vote Republican senator, Lisa Murkowski, seemed to suggest her support for the nominee is wavering.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said Tuesday that the House will subpoena memos drafted by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe that may indicate Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed secretly recording President Trump.
A lawyer for the second woman who publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct said Tuesday night that he wants the FBI to investigate his client's claims.
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Tuesday rejected the requests from Democrats to delay a key hearing on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke, who is leading an insurgent challenge against incumbent Ted Cruz, claimed during a debate on Friday that he never left the scene of a DWI crash near El Paso in 1998, but a leading Washington Post fact-checker challenged the claim, giving it "four Pinocchios."
The Senate Judiciary Committee rescheduled a planned key vote on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination for Friday morning, one day after Kavanaugh and sex-assault accuser Christine Blasey Ford are scheduled to testify to lawmakers.
Sen. Cory Booker might look like he’s prepping for a potential 2020 presidential run, but a recent stop in his home state of New Jersey has him looking toward the midterms – at least for now.
National Security Adviser John Bolton delivered a searing, no-holds-barred warning to Iran at the United Nations on Tuesday, telling the regime that "we are watching, and we will come after you."
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee acknowledged Tuesday she can’t guarantee the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault will show up to testify at a looming hearing, as her attorneys raise concerns about the format.
As Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has continued to deny the sexual misconduct allegations levied against him in recent days, his wife, Ashley, has remained by his side.
President Trump on Tuesday traded fiery accusations with Iran's president on the floor of the U.N. General Assembly, calling on the international community to isolate the regime as Hassan Rouhani accused Trump of having a "Nazi disposition."
With world leaders in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, one of the underlying storylines of the meeting is the simmering tensions between the United States and China after the Trump administration last week slapped economic sanctions on a Chinese military agency and its director over the purchase of Russian fighter jets and surface-to-air missile equipment.
President Trump used a warning from Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday to increase pressure on fellow Republicans to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, suggesting control of Congress is at stake.
Sen. Ted Cruz became just the latest target Monday of a harassment campaign that has gone after GOP lawmakers and Trump administration members, as protesters forced him and his wife to flee a restaurant in Washington, D.C.
A Rhode Island town council that last week approved a nonbinding resolution to boycott Nike products over the Colin Kaepernick ads has reversed its decision after widespread backlash.