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 ...
Documents from the Pentagon show that "far more taxpayer funds" were spent by the U.S. military on overnight stays at a Trump resort in Scotland than previously known, two Democratic lawmakers said on Wednesday, as they demanded more evidence from the Defense Department as ...
If the president wants to challenge a New York state law, let him do it on New York's turf. That's what lawyers for the state told a federal judge in Washington on Wednesday in a hearing on Donald Trump's suit over a law that could ...
Trump takes aim at blue state California over homeless crisis
U.S. President Donald Trump hit out at California Tuesday over the handling of its homelessness crisis, which he said was destroying cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles and prompting foreign residents to flee. "We can't let Los Angeles, San Francisco and numerous other cities ...
Democratic 2020 candidate Elizabeth Warren releases anti-corruption plan
Elizabeth Warren has released a proposal aimed at government corruption, providing a detailed policy roadmap for a fight she says is at the core of her presidential campaign. The Democratic senator from Massachusetts is announcing the plan Monday in Manhattan's Washington Square Park, near the ...
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar says she's confident Trump will be impeached
Rep. Ilhan Omar said it's a matter of when, not if, President Donald Trump will be impeached and she's not worried about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others not moving ahead right now. "It is OK for some people to have hesitations, for other people ...
Trump defends Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh over fresh sexual misconduct claim
U.S. President Donald Trump mounted an angry defense of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Sunday as the controversial judge faced calls for an investigation over fresh allegations of sexual misconduct. Trump blasted the media and "Radical Left Democrats" after a former Yale classmate of ...
Gun control must include background checks, Democrats tell Trump
Congressional Democratic leaders warned President Donald Trump on Sunday that any proposal on gun control must include a House-passed bill to expand background checks for gun purchases — or else risk no legislation at all. In a joint statement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate ...
Candidate Joe Biden on racism: Whites 'can never fully understand'
At a black church known nationally for the white supremacist violence that occurred there more than a half-century ago, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Sunday declared the current era of racial tensions a defining national crucible on par with the civil rights movement. "We ...
Don't vote? If you're in a U.S. swing state, the Trump campaign would like a word with you
Ashley Arentz is a political unicorn. The 28-year-old marine from Jacksonville, North Carolina, didn't vote in 2016, and she wasn't even registered to vote in the state. But there she was on Monday, standing in line for hours in the 90-degree heat waiting to enter ...
Coming for your AR-15? Beto O'Rourke scrambles Democrats' gun message
Beto O'Rourke's "hell yes" moment at the Democrats' presidential debate is scrambling his party's message on guns. The Democrats have long contended their support of gun control laws does not mean they want to take away law-abiding citizens' firearms. But on Friday, they struggled to ...
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is shrugging off thinly veiled criticism from younger rivals that he is too old for the Oval Office. The 76-year-old former vice president told reporters Friday that he'll prove his fitness through the campaign, even asking one questioner jokingly: "You ...
