During a meeting with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Monday, President Joe Biden appeared "positive" about the idea of forgiving at least $10,000 in Americans' student loan debt but did not make a definite commitment on the matter, according to a congresswoman in the room.
Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina was cited for bringing a loaded handgun through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport, authorities said.
A two-star Air Force general will pay more than $50,000 in fines after being found guilty of abusive sexual contact in a military court over the weekend in connection with a 2018 incident, according to a release from the US Air Force.
New audio of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, obtained and reported on by The New York Times on Tuesday, reveals he expressed concern about far-right House Republicans inciting violence against other lawmakers in the aftermath of January 6, 2021.
Newly obtained text messages and recent court filings fill in significant gaps about the key role a little-known Pennsylvania Republican congressman played at almost every turn in scheming to reverse or delay certification of the 2020 election.
In the immediate aftermath of the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, Mitch McConnell thought he had finally gotten his wish: Donald Trump would be excised from the Republican Party for the role he played in fomenting the insurrection.
Vice President Kamala Harris has congratulated NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei for his record-breaking 355-day stay in space, which ended when he returned to Earth late last month.
The Biden administration said Tuesday it will comply with an order from a federal judge in Louisiana temporarily blocking the end of a public health authority known as Title 42 on the US-Mexico border.
Running against Washington is nothing new. Running against Washington while your party controls the White House, Senate and House is something significantly more complicated.
Former President Donald Trump will be fined thousands of dollars beginning Tuesday for failing to comply with a subpoena from the New York attorney general, a state judge ruled.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday that he supports efforts to allow some of the proceeds from assets the Justice Department seizes from Russian oligarchs to go "directly to Ukraine."
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told CNN's Jim Sciutto on Tuesday that the entire "global international security order" put in place after World War II is at stake if Russia gets away "cost-free" following its invasion of Ukraine.
On Monday, during a trip to the US-Mexico border, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was asked why he had lied about the idea of asking then-President Donald Trump to resign in the wake of the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
The Biden administration has secured the purchase of 20 million treatment courses of Paxlovid, Pfizer's antiviral Covid-19 pill, a senior administration official told CNN on Monday.
The most chilling takeaway of a new haul of texts showing how former President Donald Trump's inner circle schemed to steal the 2020 election is not the delusional fervor of their plan or the casual way plotters rejected the legitimate will of the American people.
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