The USS Antietam, a US Navy Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, damaged its propellers and spilled hydraulic oil into the water after running aground off the coast of Japan.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's possible conflicts of interest could be among the more than 40 items the House Oversight Committee investigates.
President Donald Trump's nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme Court has supporters and opponents alike digging into Gorsuch's record during his decade-long tenure on the Denver-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
Joe and Jill Biden launched The Biden Foundation on Wednesday, telling supporters in a video that "as long as he has a breath in it" the former vice president will be working on issues that matter to him.
As progressive anger with President Donald Trump spills over, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and other top lawmakers are attempting to channel the resistance into legislative victories.
Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump's speechwriter, confidante and the author of his controversial immigration ban, has operated on the fringes of his own political party since he was a teenager.
President Donald Trump's travel ban increases the possibility of an attack on America, former CIA Director and US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
Within minutes of President Donald Trump's selection of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, Democrats who will lead the fight in the Senate delivered scathing assessments -- but held fire on perhaps the most important question facing them: whether they will filibuster the nomination.
Less than two weeks into Donald Trump's presidency, the United States is staring down the barrel of a crisis echoing the fraught final months that ended with Richard Nixon's resignation in August 1974.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday slammed the rollout of President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration, saying it was "terrible" even if the President's intentions were good.
Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Education, appears to have lifted a quote from an Obama administration civil rights official in written answers to the Senate committee tasked with approving his nomination.
Congress is preparing this week to start the process of rolling back multiple regulations, one of which is a bipartisan rule that requires extractive industry corporations, like oil, gas and mining companies to disclose payments they make to foreign governments for access to natural resources.
When President Donald Trump presents his nominee for the Supreme Court with all the White House pageantry Tuesday night, much more will be riding on this coveted appointment than when Justice Antonin Scalia died last February and created the opening.
Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban on Tuesday night bashed President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban, saying he believes the plan will do more harm than good.
President Donald Trump begins his 11th day in office shrouded in crisis, roundly criticized for a chaotic unveiling of immigration measures and under new scrutiny after he fired the nation's top law enforcement officer who refused to enforce them.
After a dozen days of the Trump administration, Senate Democrats are fed up enough that they've decided to boycott some committee votes. This may delay the Obamacare repeal and replacement plans, as Tom Price will probably need to wait another week before being confirmed as HHS secretary. At midnight, the fairy godmother (and the US government) will no longer allow any more Obamacare enrollees. As the deadline approaches, some are wondering if it's the last enrollment period ever for Obamacare.
An outgoing top State Department official told his colleagues on Tuesday to stay in their posts to defend the US Constitution and protect America from "all enemies foreign and domestic," in a thinly veiled critique of the Trump administration.
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