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Obama published a blog post on Medium urging activists to reject feeling cynical about the importance of voting.

Since his inauguration, Trump has espoused the need for his administration to take an "America First" approach to foreign policy.

China's state media is hitting back at American President Donald Trump's announcement last week that he would be revoking Hong Kong's favored trade status with the U.S.

Joe Biden has surged past President Donald Trump in raising cash from the health-care industry. The development comes as Trump falls in the polls during his response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer who was filmed kneeling on George Floyd's neck before he died, is in custody and has been charged with murder, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Friday.

As McConnell pledges caution, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are pushing him to quickly approve more coronavirus relief measures.

Michael Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. at the time, Sergey Kislyak. Earlier this month, the Department of Justice moved to drop its case against Flynn.

Republican National Convention organizers appear to have hit an impasse with the state of North Carolina over whether they will be required to practice social distancing at the party's nominating convention, scheduled to be held in Charlotte in late August.

The shift in Hong Kong's status immediately jeopardizes several aspects of the former British colony's relationship with the United States.

Joe Biden is angry about President Donald Trump's tweet in response to protests in Minneapolis in connection with death of George Floyd in policy custody. "When the looting starts, the shooting starts," Trump wrote.

The Democrats said they plan to publicly release transcripts of their interviews "as quickly as possible." They also vowed to take "further public-facing steps" related to their probe.

Barack Obama cited the deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery in a tweet calling the disparate treatment of racial minorities in the United States "maddeningly 'normal.'"

With tensions over Hong Kong near a boiling point, Americans will get a chance to see if there's a bite behind Trump's China bark.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned the four Minneapolis officers involved in the death of George Floyd, saying this "horrifying" situation cannot happen again.

The order came two days after Twitter, for the first time, added warning links to two of Trump's tweets, inviting readers to "get the facts."

The executive order serves as a warning shot to social media platforms that Trump is willing to put them through costly litigation if he is unhappy with the content on their sites, just six months ahead of the 2020 election.

Trump was set to receive a briefing Thursday from Attorney General William Barr on the status of a federal investigation into the death of a black man in Minnesota whose violent arrest at the hands of a white officer has sparked calls for criminal charges.

The bill lets small businesses getting coronavirus aid loans use a smaller share of the money on pay and extends the time they have to use it.

Federal authorities unmasked a massive coronavirus scheme to sell a foreign government 50 million N95 face masks that didn't actually exist. That government wired $317 million to pay for the fictional masks

The coronavirus has pulled the future forward, forcing a changed perspective of national security, and now we must quickly adapt how we operate to reflect this reality, writes former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon.