U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions blasted Chicago for its “sanctuary” policies during a speech in Florida on Wednesday, while praising Miami-Dade County for its commitment to the rule of law and helping the federal government enforce immigration laws.
Read moreTaking the stand after his editorial for The New York Times drew legal fire, an opinion editor said Wednesday that he “didn’t remotely intend” to implicate former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in a mass shooting.
Read moreA Muslim-American radio host is accusing the publisher of a notorious neo-Nazi website of defaming him by falsely labeling him the “mastermind” of a deadly concert bombing in England, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Read moreA federal judge on Wednesday denied former Rep. Corrine Brown’s requests that he either toss her fraud convictions or give her a new trial.
Read moreA conservative county mayor moved a step closer to seizing the seat of retired U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, after winning a Utah Republican primary dogged by negative campaigning.
Read moreArmy Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley on Wednesday joined three of his colleagues on the Joint Chiefs of Staff in using social media to denounce racism, intolerance, and extremism in the wake of the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va.
Read moreA federal appeals court panel has ruled that Arkansas can block Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood over videos secretly recorded by an anti-abortion group.
Read morePresident Donald Trump said on Wednesday he is disbanding two business advisory councils after a flood of criticism led some chief executives to quit over the president’s response to violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
Read morePresident Donald Trump renewed his attacks at online retail giant Amazon Wednesday morning, accusing the company of harming traditional brick-and-mortar retailers and emptying American cities of the jobs they create.
Read moreMichael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, on Wednesday attempted to distance himself from his client’s increasingly muddied comments on the violence in Charlottesville by denouncing racism and sharing pictures of himself with black associates on Twitter.
Read moreConfederate monuments in Baltimore were quietly removed and hauled away on trucks in darkness early Wednesday, days after a violent white nationalist rally in Virginia that was sparked by plans to take down a similar statue there.
Read moreAlabama’s former Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, twice suspended for defying the law, will face a runoff election in September against Luther Strange, who was appointed to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions when he became U.S. attorney general.
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Supporters of a policy that has shielded 800,000 immigrants from deportation rallied at the White House and in Austin on Tuesday, as pressure mounts on the Trump administration to rescind the policy or face a lawsuit from Texas.
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(CN) – President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will role back environmental protections and streamline the federal permitting process
Read moreThe Trump administration’s pledge to end billions in federal insurance subsidies will worsen the federal deficit, and spike health insurance premiums, the Congressional Budget Office warned Tuesday.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that counterprotesters at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville over the weekend acted violently and should share the blame for the mayhem that left a woman dead and 19 others injured.
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The deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is accelerating the removal of Confederate monuments in cities across the nation in much the same way that a 2015 mass shooting by a white supremacist led to the end of the Confederate flag being flown on public property.
Read morePeople buying individual health care policies would face higher premiums, and some may be left with no insurance options at all if President Donald Trump makes good on his threat to stop Affordable Care Act payments to insurers, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday.
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The Trump re-election campaign accused CNN of censorship Tuesday for its refusal to run a new political ad, the rebuke coming just hours after the president deleted a controversial retweet disparaging the cable news network.
Read moreThe leaders of four minority House caucus groups have sent a letter to President Donald Trump, calling for the removal of White House aides Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller and Sebastian Gorka.
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