Prominent California Democratic Party donor Edward Buck has been charged with operating a drug den after injecting a man with methamphetamine in his West Hollywood home where two other men previously died of apparent overdoses, prosecutors said. Buck, who donated to former President Barack Obama ...
Trump's Cabinet has had more ex-lobbyists than Obama or Bush
In less than three years, President Donald Trump has named more former lobbyists to Cabinet-level posts than his most recent predecessors did in eight, putting a substantial amount of oversight in the hands of people with ties to the industries they're regulating. The Cabinet choices ...
Cokie Roberts, longtime political journalist and role model for women reporters, dies at 75
Cokie Roberts, the daughter of politicians who grew up to cover the family business in Washington for ABC News and NPR over several decades, died Tuesday in Washington of complications from breast cancer. She was 75. ABC broke into network programming to announce her death ...
Trump administration to drop Obama-era water protection rule
The Trump administration is revoking an Obama-era regulation that shielded many U.S. wetlands and streams from pollution but was opposed by developers and farmers who said it hurt economic development and infringed on property rights. Even before the official announcement, scheduled for later Thursday, environmental ...
Electability for U.S. Democrats seen boiling down to black vote
For all the strategic calculations, sophisticated voter targeting and relentless talk about electability in Iowa and New Hampshire, the Democratic presidential nomination will be determined by a decidedly different group: black voters. African-Americans will watch as mostly white voters in the first two contests express ...
Former PM Hatoyama regrets reneging on pledge to move Futenma airbase out of Okinawa
Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama says it was a "big mistake" to abandon his pledge to move U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma out of Okinawa. Hatoyama became prime minister in September 2009, after the now-defunct Democratic Party of Japan scored a landslide victory in ...
Prominent DC lawyer and ex-Obama aide acquitted in foreign lobbying case
A prominent Washington lawyer was found not guilty Wednesday of lying to the Justice Department about work he did for the government of Ukraine in a case that arose from the special counsel's Russia investigation and focus on the lucrative world of foreign lobbying. The ...
Viola Davis set to play Michelle Obama in proposed Showtime series
Viola Davis is set to portray Michelle Obama in a Showtime series under development about America's first ladies. Davis also is an executive producer on the project, which Showtime said Monday will "peel back the curtain" on the lives of presidential spouses. The first season will ...
Evoking 1968, Biden asks: What if Obama had been assassinated?
Joe Biden pondered a most serious, and awkward, question at a campaign stop Friday: What if Barack Obama had been assassinated during his presidential campaign in 2008? Toward the end of an event in Hanover, Biden evoked two of his political heroes, Martin Luther King ...
With call for Russia to rejoin G7 framework, Trump unleashes diplomatic grenade
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave a foretaste of his convention-wrecking diplomacy at next weekend's Group of Seven summit by calling for Russia — expelled from the group of democracies — to be readmitted. Coming four days before he arrives in the French seaside ...
Toni Morrison, first African-American Nobel literary laureate, dead at 88
Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of America's best loved writers, has died following a brief illness, her family said in a statement Tuesday. She was 88. Barack Obama — who awarded Morrison the Presidential Medal ...
America's racial legacy front and center in 2020 election campaign
When Barack Obama was elected as America's first black president in 2008, many believed it was a watershed moment for a country bearing the scars of slavery. Just over a decade later, as the 2020 presidential campaign heats up, the divisive issue of race is ...
