House Speaker Paul Ryan, pressed about Donald Trump's praise of the strongman Russian leader, trashed Vladimir Putin, but wouldn't criticize the GOP presidential nominee.
Hillary Clinton unleashed a torrent of attacks against Donald Trump's preparedness to be commander-in-chief Thursday morning, hours after an NBC forum exposed her opponent to criticism on multiple fronts.
Donald Trump stood by his past comment that military sexual assaults should be expected "when they put men and women together" in the US armed forces during an NBC-hosted forum Wednesday night. But he added that a "court system" should be set up in the military to better deal with what he called "a massive problem."
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell told his successor, Hillary Clinton, that he used his own personal computer to communicate with friends and foreign leaders and sent emails without going through the State Department server, according to emails released Wednesday by congressional Democrats.
FBI Director James Comey is defending the bureau's Friday afternoon release of documents from the Hillary Clinton email investigation, saying "we don't play games" and that the documents were put out when ready.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said "steadiness" is the most important quality needed for a commander in chief, during a presidential forum on Wednesday.
Hillary Clinton told an Israeli news channel Wednesday that ISIS is "rooting for Donald Trump," citing an article by a former head of the US National Counterterrorism Center.
Would the United States have become mired in the costly Vietnam War had President John F. Kennedy escaped an assassin's bullet in 1963? His daughter says no.
President Barack Obama warned Thursday against becoming immune to Donald Trump's more outlandish statements, arguing that the stakes of the US presidential contest were too high for Americans to tune out.
In 1975, 14-year-old Barack Obama and 23-year-old Sombath Somphone were both living in Oahu, the future US president starting high school and the Lao exchange student on his way toward a bachelors degree from the University of Hawaii.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an audience Wednesday night that she thought "cooler heads will prevail" when asked about the Senate's refusal to hold hearings to fill the seat of Justice Antonin Scalia, adding she hoped it would happen "sooner rather than later."
For a brief period of time Gavin Grimm, the transgender male high school student at the center of a national debate on gender identity, was allowed to use the boys' bathroom at his school.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus tweeted Wednesday night his critique of Hillary Clinton following a national security candidate forum during which she was grilled on her email use, ISIS plans, Iraq War vote and more: She didn't smile.
Criticism about Donald Trump's donation to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has renewed focus on Trump's history of political giving, sparking questions of whether he was serious earlier in his campaign when he bragged of being able to buy politicians.
Donald Trump, resurfacing attacks hurled against Hillary Clinton during her Senate campaign, argued that the Democratic presidential nominee is "not a New Yorker" while speaking at an event hosted by the New York State Conservative Party.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday he doesn't know whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton would be a better commander in chief for the United States.
US nuclear security facilities are dangerously decrepit and putting national security goals at risk, according to nuclear officials who are asking Congress to back the administration's push to modernize the system.