CNBC Politics

New York Mayor Eric Adams has appointed to a top city job an executive with ties to the Trump Organization and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.

Secretary of State Blinken told his Russian counterpart that the Kremlin could defuse concerns about an invasion by moving troops away from Ukraine's borders.

The energy secretary failed to disclose at least nine stock sales within the required 45-day window.

Former President Donald Trump and others are being eyed in a criminal probe in Georgia in connection with the 2020 election against President Joe Biden.

"The Court may look the other way, but I cannot," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a fiery dissent joined by liberal Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.

The Friday meeting between top U.S. and Russian diplomats comes as Western officials expect Moscow to soon launch an invasion of Ukraine.

Ivanka evidently has direct knowledge about what went on at the White House during the Capitol riot, committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said.

Treasury Secretary Yellen defended the administration's economic achievements and said that she hopes to see inflation closer to 2% by the end of 2022.

A day earlier, President Joe Biden said he expected President Vladimir Putin would invade Ukraine. Biden vowed that that move would be "a disaster" for Russia.

Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell have pointed to revelations of a juror who convicted her of crimes related to sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein in a bid for a new trial.

Facing high daily Covid cases and major legislative defeats in Washington, President Joe Biden defended his course of action in his first year in office.

Senate Republicans blocked two voting rights bills, while Democrats Sinema and Manchin joined the GOP in opposing filibuster rule changes.

President Joe Biden had refused to invoke executive privilege, as Donald Trump wanted to prevent White House records from going to the January 6 riot panel.

The January 6 Capitol riot is being probed by a House select committee that is seeking hundreds of pages of Trump White House records.

Biden said he believes Congress will support climate and early childhood education policies contained in his Build Back Better plan.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he supports Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's expected move to begin tightening monetary policy.

"My guess is [Putin] will move in, he has to do something," Biden said when asked about the more than 100,000 Russian troops positioned along Ukraine's border.

Statements from the court came after a report said Justice Gorsuch refused to wear a mask, despite a request from Chief Justice Roberts to do so.

Gorsuch's refusal to wear a mask has led Sotomayor, who has diabetes and is at a higher risk from Covid, to attend proceedings remotely, the report said.

Nearly 4 million children could fall into poverty this month following the end of monthly child tax credit payments in December, according to a new study.