Politics

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has accused the Democrats of “playing politics” for rejecting a GOP proposal he said could avoid a looming government shutdown, as a game of brinkmanship...

North Korea fired an unidentified short-range missile into the sea early Tuesday morning, just moments before Pyongyang called on the U.S. to end military activity around the Korean Peninsula. The...

At the end of June, when Malaysians were grappling with a drastically worsening pandemic, pictures of black flags, and people waving them from their cars or their homes, appeared on...

A just-retired Department of Homeland Security official who filed a whistleblower complaint last year ticked off the dangerous ways Donald Trump “politicized” DHS and why it would be a “disaster”...

Two American siblings prevented from leaving China since 2018 have returned to the United States, according to a US official, shortly after the US ended an extradition case against a...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that he had received his coronavirus booster shot on Monday, telling Americans that “mountains of evidence” show the vaccines are safe and effective....

Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., preached from a pulpit in Brooklyn on Sunday that citizens should be thankful to God for the COVID-19 vaccines, which she claimed were divinely inspired. Hochul,...

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) got shot down by critics on Monday after tweeting a false analogy comparing the coronavirus to a headache. “I woke up with a headache this morning....

WASHINGTON — The Senate failed on Monday to pass a key procedural vote to advance the House-passed short-term government funding bill as the deadline to avert a shutdown looms at...

Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic measure aimed at averting a government shutdown and raising the federal debt limit Monday evening, leaving Congress with just days to cobble together a government...