Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's well-known candor was on display in her chambers late Monday, when she declined to retreat from her earlier criticism of Donald Trump and even elaborated on it.
President Barack Obama warned Tuesday that a week of violence and racial tension exposed the deepest fault lines in American democracy, but urged Americans not to despair because the nation would overcome its divides.
As #WriteInBernie trends on Twitter and #BernieOrBust activists pledge their loyalty to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, comedian and Sanders fan Brandon Wardell told CNN that he is now ready to let go of Sanders and vote for Hillary Clinton.
Anthony Kennedy fled the confines of Washington for the big skies of Montana to deliver his first public comments since the grand finale of a tumultuous term.
In the weeks before Republicans descended on Cleveland, the band of conservative delegates fighting against Donald Trump promised a scrappy but ardent effort to take the convention by storm.
As anticipation builds for Donald Trump to name his vice presidential pick, two hopefuls -- Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich -- appear to be the front-runners, according to a person familiar with the deliberations.
Citing a desire to balance "public trust" with the rights and safety of law enforcement officers, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed legislation that blocks the release of law enforcement recordings from body cameras or dashboard cameras with limited exceptions.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has one of the toughest jobs in politics right now: safeguarding the future of the Republican Party while simultaneously uniting the party around Donald Trump, its controversial presumptive nominee.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will not be speaking at the NAACP Annual Convention in Ohio next week, the civil rights organization's president and CEO said Tuesday.
When Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow this week, the big loser may be the man who isn't there: Defense Secretary Ash Carter.
Senate Republicans and Democrats clashed Tuesday over how to resolve a handful of remaining bills before they leave for an extra-long summer recess at the end of the week.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been invited to be the marquee speaker the first night of the Democratic convention, according to two people familiar with the scheduling.
Many establishment Republicans on Capitol Hill have been reluctant to embrace Donald Trump's candidacy, but they are now talking up one of their own as a possible vice presidential pick -- Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who served in House GOP leadership -- as a plus to the 2016 ticket.
The group that has forced a series of difficult test votes on LGBT issues at the Republican National Convention early meetings plans to take that fight all the way to the floor of the convention.