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At a confab in the California desert this weekend, leaders of the powerful political and policy network founded by billionaire benefactors Charles and David Koch issued a stark warning for the midterm elections: President Donald Trump's unpopularity could be churning up a Democratic wave.

Senate Republicans are looking for President Donald Trump to focus on his accomplishments in his first State of the Union address on Tuesday, but many also said they'd like to hear specifics about issues ranging from North Korea to infrastructure.

Senate Democrats say they hope President Donald Trump uses his first State of the Union address on Tuesday to bring Americans together rather than divide them further, despite their contentious relationship with him over the past year.

Vice President Mike Pence is bookending this week with two high-dollar fundraisers as he begins to push an active schedule of campaigning for the 2018 midterm elections.

President Donald Trump is set to deliver his first State of the Union address on Tuesday, before a joint session of Congress.

When police Officer Ryan Holets shared the riveting and unlikely story of how his family adopted a homeless, heroin addict's baby late last year, he could not imagine that his story also captured the eyes of the White House.

New Jersey Republican Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, announced Monday that he'll retire at the end of this term, the latest in a string of GOP members in powerful committee positions to make plans to leave Congress.

Sunday night, CNN's Ana Cabrera personally called on President Donald Trump to laud immigrants during his State of the Union address on Tuesday.

As he welcomed donors and lawmakers Saturday to an annual confab in the California desert, billionaire Charles Koch posed a new challenge to his powerful political network: "to increase the scale and effectiveness of this network by an order of magnitude, by another tenfold."

President Donald Trump says he is not a feminist because he's not solely supportive of women, but rather of all people.

The test is the same one immigrants have to pass to become US citizens.

On Sunday night, shortly after a series of musicians performed dramatic readings from Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury," US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley fired off this tweet:

Hillary Clinton's former presidential campaign manager said Monday she was overruled when she recommended firing Burns Strider, a former campaign faith adviser who was accused of sexual harassment when he worked on Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will bring San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz as her guest to Tuesday's State of the Union address, the New York Democrat announced in a tweet Monday.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is unlikely to attend President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address this week.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House are unveiling Monday their proposal to resolve the immigration standoff in Washington, even as the White House has offered a more conservative plan.

Rep. Frederica Wilson explained Monday morning why the latest development in her longstanding feud with President Donald Trump will be a refusal to attend his State of the Union address Tuesday.

The US Treasury Department plans to take the next step on Russia sanctions established following interference in the 2016 election on Monday and issue what's expected to be a "name and shame" list of companies and individuals that will be sanctioned for doing businesses with blacklisted Russian entities.