McConnell says a fall led to his hospitalization, breaking weeks of silence about health condition
Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, 84, in a statement Sunday said a fall was what landed him in the hospital four weeks ago.
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Senate returns to Washington after Sen. Lindsey Graham’s death with uncertain agenda
Senate Republicans will return to Washington with an uncertain agenda after the death of prominent Republican Lindsey Graham.
Crews are draining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool again as part of Trump’s troubled revamp
The president initially suggested his renovations would last a century.
Detainees tell their lawyer an ICE officer shot a Houston driver through a passenger window
ICE faces scrutiny after a fatal Houston shooting. Witnesses dispute agency claims that the victim rammed an officer during a traffic stop.
Trump will let bipartisan housing bill become law without signing in protest over GOP voter ID law
President Donald Trump has chosen not to sign a housing affordability bill, in protest of Congress not approving a strict voter ID bill.
Donald Trump ousts election commission members in latest push to reshape US voting process
President Trump ousted members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission charged with assisting state and local elections officials.
Unclaimed airstrikes target Iran after US attacks, raising questions of who launched them
Mysterious airstrikes have hit Iran after the U.S. said it ended its attacks, raising questions about who targeted the Islamic Republic.
Judge orders E. Jean Carroll be paid $5.8M in Trump sex abuse and defamation case; Trump appeals
A federal judge says writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5.8 million that was set aside after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became president and defamed her after she publicly revealed the attack.
Judges deny request to return Trump’s name to Kennedy Center pending an appeal
A three-judge panel has denied a request from the Kennedy Center’s board to keep President Donald Trump’s name on the institution while they appeal an earlier ruling that dubbed the name change illegal.
Trump blasts NATO for rejecting his efforts to claim Greenland as leaders hold a summit in Turkey
President Donald Trump criticized NATO allies at a summit over their resistance to his Greenland ambitions and lack of support in Iran.