President Trump aimed pointed criticism at the OPEC oil cartel on Twitter Wednesday, saying it was "doing little to help" high gas prices in the U.S. "If anything, they are driving prices higher as the United States defends many of their members for very little $’s," Trump claimed.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer was in the hospital on Wednesday after getting a pneumonia diagnosis a day earlier, and was expected to make a full recovery.
Mayor Eric Garcetti’s laudable attempt to warn of the dangers of fireworks possibly backfired when a PSA video instead showed a fun and cool use for the mini-explosives: blowing up fruit.
Michael Avenatti, the attorney for adult film star Stormy Daniels, set off Independence Day fireworks on Twitter Wednesday when he declared that he would run for president in 2020 if President Trump seeks re-election and if Avenatti believes no other candidate can win.
The U.K. government has reportedly told President Trump he must not meet Brexit architect and former U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage when Trump visits the U.K. this month.
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz said Tuesday he won’t let radicals like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders steal the spirit of the Democratic Party and doubled-down on his attack on fellow liberals who “shunned” him at Martha's Vineyard.
A federal judge tossed out Tuesday a lawsuit claiming the Trump campaign and former adviser Roger Stone colluded with WikiLeaks and the Russian government to publish hacked Democratic National Committee emails during the presidential election.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Monday—citing an equipment issue that grounded his small plane—was forced to cancel a town hall in Brooklyn, annoying some in attendance who waited hours for his arrival in a hot synagogue.
The FBI's and CIA's significant "analytical disagreement" with the NSA over whether Russia tried to help the Trump presidential campaign was "reasonable," according to an unclassified report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released Tuesday.
President Trump touted his administration's accomplishments for the military and veterans at a charity dinner in West Virginia on Tuesday, honoring what the president called the "sweat, blood, and sacrifices" of the armed forces.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, denied on Tuesday reports that he “turned a blind eye” to alleged sexual abuse perpetrated against students by an Ohio State wrestling team doctor when the lawmaker coached at the university more than two decades ago.
More than one million Americans decided to drop their health insurance plans last year, after policy changes dictated that about 20 percent of those with coverage through ObamaCare’s marketplace would no longer get government help paying for it.
Embattled Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt on Tuesday strongly denied reports that he had asked Trump to fire Jeff Sessions and make him the next attorney general.
The Trump administration is doing away with a series of affirmative-action policy documents put in place under former President Barack Obama that encourage colleges and universities to use race in admissions processes to promote campus diversity.
Vandals threw bricks at the Nebraska Republican Party headquarters and spray-painted “Abolish ICE” outside the office early Tuesday morning, causing about $1,200 in damage, officials said.
Both the White House and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, have confirmed that the Republican lawmaker was one of four candidates interviewed by President Trump on Monday to fill the empty seat on the U.S. Supreme Court vacated by retired Justice Anthony Kennedy.