Sen. Elizabeth Warren says there are "more questions than answers" about what led to four US soldiers being killed in the October 4 Niger ambush, and she's arguing for Congress to have a bigger role in determining how US troops operate in countries like Niger where they don't have an active combat mission.
President Donald Trump will use an event at the White House on Thursday to declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency, White House officials tell CNN.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved Thursday to break filibusters of four appeals court nominees, acting aggressively to break what he complained is "often mindless" Democratic obstruction of President Donald Trump's judicial appointments.
Touted as the world's most technologically advanced fast attack submarine, the USS South Dakota is set to join the US Navy fleet amid a growing threat to American undersea dominance from several foreign rivals.
CNN's Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb just reported this important nugget from the ongoing investigation into who paid an opposition research firm to put together a dossier on Donald Trump:
An undocumented 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy was taken into US Customs and Border Protection custody shortly after emergency gallbladder surgery in Texas in a case that advocates say shows the harmful extent of the President's hard line on immigration policies.
President Donald Trump personalized his anti-drug message on Thursday at the White House, discussing how his elder brother's struggle with addiction led him to never drink or smoke.
President Donald Trump's nominee to be White House senior adviser for environmental policy wrote an essay in 1995 in which she argued that because of federal overreach, including environmental regulations, Texas would be better off as an independent republic.
President Trump called for a "big, beautiful wall" between the United States and Mexico. And the vision is now morphing into reality with the construction of eight 30-foot tall prototypes in no-man's land on the border south of San Diego.
Since this is our last #ThrowbackThursday before Halloween, it only seemed right to highlight the ways in which the White House has gotten into the spookiest of holidays.
First lady Melania Trump was the first voice heard during Thursday afternoon's opioid event at the White House, speaking ahead of President Donald Trump.
The Senate intelligence committee this week advanced legislation that renews the overseas internet surveillance program known as FISA Section 702 through 2025.
The Government Accountability Office will investigate President Donald Trump's voting commission after a request by Democratic senators, the agency said in a letter made public Thursday.
One day after Kid Rock announced his possible run for US Senate seat in Michigan was a hoax and he that had a new album coming out, a fellow musician from his home state appears to possibly have his own stunt campaign.
Armed clashes between Iraqi and Kurdish forces in Northern Iraq are undermining the fight against ISIS, even as Iraqi troops launch an operation to capture what the US-led military coalition has called the terror group's "final stronghold" in Iraq.
The House of Representatives votes Thursday on a budget resolution that would allow Congress to fast-track a tax reform bill, a major legislative effort that Republicans are desperate to launch.
The Pentagon on Thursday provided lawmakers with a classified briefing detailing what the agency has uncovered so far in its investigation of the Niger ambush that left four US service members dead, amid swirling questions on Capitol Hill about the larger US strategy in Africa in the wake of the attack.
On the 50th anniversary of his capture in Vietnam, Sen. John McCain recalled the specifics of his ordeal -- and fellow prisoners recounted the courage with which he faced it.
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