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The Founders feared a direct, “popular” election of the President.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) indicated Thursday that congressional Republicans might push to defund Planned Parenthood using the budget reconciliation process.

A little-known mayor from Indiana on Thursday joined a crowded field of candidates seeking to become the next head of the Democratic National Committee.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday Republicans would strip federal dollars for Planned Parenthood as part of the GOP effort to repeal the health care law, prompting an outcry from the century-old organization and Democrats.

Before his farewell address, President Barack Obama plans a farewell bash Friday night to celebrate the end of his presidency.

A Massachusetts sheriff says he’s ready to help provide President-elect Donald Trump the labor to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday picked former Indiana Senator Dan Coats as director of national intelligence, a person briefed on the decision told the Associated Press.

Dems are happy to keep the story going, but will Trump decide he's had enough?

Seattle politicians have it figured out: The city is now giving taxpayers their own money back, on the condition they "donate" that cash back to political candidates.

If you thought your Thursday wasn’t going well, spare a thought for the design team at The Washington Post’s “Express” – the paper's free daily edition -- who managed to make a front page gaffe for the ages.

The White House on Thursday condemned the "depravity" of the shocking Chicago attack streamed on Facebook Live in which assailants were shown beating a mentally disabled man while shouting racial slurs and anti-Donald Trump statements.

President-elect Donald Trump gave a videotaped deposition Thursday stemming from a lawsuit he filed after a celebrity chef backed out of plans to open at a restaurant at one of his hotels.

A task force of bipartisan lawmakers on Thursday released a report recommending a detailed cybersecurity agenda for the incoming Trump administration, even as the issue dominates talk on Capitol Hill.

The election’s over – but Hillary Clinton’s emails are still coming to light. And they help illustrate why the FBI declared she was “extremely careless” with the information flowing across her secret server.

The Obama administration imposed sanctions Thursday on a son of Sept. 11 mastermind Usama bin Laden, saying the younger bin Laden poses a risk to U.S. national security.

President-elect Donald Trump’s outsider candidacy defied all political convention during the 2016 campaign – and with two weeks to go until he’s inaugurated, the billionaire tycoon already is breaking the mold of the presidency itself.

Western state lawmakers, ranchers and those in the oil and gas industry, on the other hand, have widely panned Obama’s monument proclamations – claiming that the president’s so-called “midnight monuments” doesn’t represent the interests of the people in those states and will in time do more harm than good to the environment.

President Obama has received a much-anticipated classified report on alleged Russian and other foreign meddling in American elections, heightening interest in what evidence the file contains as Republicans spar over the cyberattack claims – and wait for their chance to see the findings themselves.

The vicious attack on a mentally disabled white man in Chicago who was bound, gagged and beaten while his captors yelled racial and anti-Donald Trump slurs is just the latest example of violent attacks waged by assailants who’ve used Trump’s election to the presidency as a motive for mayhem.

The outgoing commander-in-chief is saying farewell over a series of essays, memos and addresses that started with a closing national security speech in Tampa a month ago and will continue through his official farewell address in his hometown of Chicago next Tuesday.