[ad_1] Co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and former Republican U.S. congressman Joe Scarborough said on Tuesday that he is leaving the Republican party and becoming an independent during an appearance on a late-night talk show.…

[ad_1] By Steve Holland | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Fresh off one foreign trip and preparing for another, Donald Trump was enjoying a period of relative calm – until the White House was rocked by a fresh…

[ad_1] By Doina Chiacu and Arshad Mohammed | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON President Donald Trump’s eldest son eagerly agreed to meet with a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have information incriminating…

[ad_1] By Eric M. Johnson | SEATTLE SEATTLE Seattle’s city council unanimously passed a pioneering income tax on the city’s highest earners on Monday, a measure that has become a clarion call for Democrats there…

[ad_1] By Susan Cornwell and Amanda Becker | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Republican senators returned to Washington on Monday following a 10-day holiday recess still at odds with one another over legislation President Donald Trump wants passed…

[ad_1] By Phil Stewart and Valerie Volcovici | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday backtracked on his push for a cyber security unit with Russia, tweeting that he did not think it could…

[ad_1] By Valerie Volcovici | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Two senior Republican U.S. senators criticized Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Sunday for saying that Russia may have the “right approach” on Syria and for what they…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. agreed to meet with a Kremlin-linked lawyer during the 2016 campaign after being promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton, the New York Times reported on Sunday,…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON Senator John McCain, a senior U.S. Republican, predicted on Sunday that the bill to roll back Obamacare would likely fail in the Senate if put to a vote. “My view is that it’s…

[ad_1] By Andrea Shalal | HAMBURG HAMBURG U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday promised $639 million in aid to feed people left starving because of drought and conflict in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen.…

[ad_1] The state of Hawaii renewed its bid to narrow President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban, following court rulings which said the state had taken the wrong procedural approach in attempts to challenge the administration’s…

[ad_1] HAMBURG U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said it may take time to rein in North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, but expressed confidence that Washington and Beijing could eventually do so. Chinese President Xi Jinping…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON President Donald Trump’s commission to investigate possible election fraud will convene this month, a government notice said on Friday, as more U.S. states have refused to hand over at least some voter data.…

[ad_1] By Dan Levine | SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO The state of Hawaii asked a federal appeals court on Friday to issue an emergency order blocking parts of President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban while…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has appointed Kurt Volker, the former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, to serve as a special representative to Ukraine, the State Department said on Friday. Volker will be…

[ad_1] By Karen Pierog and Dave McKinney | CHICAGO CHICAGO Illinois’ first full-year budget since 2015 became law on Thursday after the House of Representatives overrode the governor’s vetoes of a $36 billion fiscal 2018…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday that Congress must act to shore up private health insurance markets if it fails to repeal Obamacare, comments seen as providing a pathway to…

[ad_1] LJUBLJANA Slovenian President Borut Pahor, attending a meeting of EU leaders with Donald Trump in Warsaw, has invited the U.S. president to visit Slovenia and Trump has accepted the invitation, Pahor’s cabinet said in…

[ad_1] By Noel Randewich | MEXICO CITY MEXICO CITY A meeting between Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday at the G20 summit in Germany will last about 30 minutes…

[ad_1] By Dave McKinney and Karen Pierog | CHICAGO CHICAGO Even if Illinois’ House of Representatives takes action to enact a new budget on Thursday, the state still risks a downgrade in its credit rating…

[ad_1] By Valerie Volcovici | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The Trump administration will soon begin a review that will question the veracity of the climate change science used by President Barack Obama’s administration as the basis for…

[ad_1] By Dave McKinney and Karen Pierog | CHICAGO CHICAGO The fate of a spending plan and tax hike aimed at ending Illinois’ unprecedented two-year budget impasse moved on Tuesday to the Democratic-controlled House of…

[ad_1] KABUL A bipartisan delegation of U.S. senators visiting Afghanistan on Tuesday called for a new strategy from the Trump administration to turn the tide against an increasingly strong Taliban insurgency and end the longest…

[ad_1] By Roberta Rampton | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON During his presidential campaign, Republican Donald Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “strong leader” with whom he’d like to reset tense U.S.-Russian relations. But as Trump…

[ad_1] By Mica Rosenberg | NEW YORK NEW YORK The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump opposed opening the door to grandparents from six Muslim-majority countries on Monday, arguing in a court filing that the…

[ad_1] By Elinor Comlay | ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie brushed off criticism on Monday after he was caught on camera taking a break from dealing with a government…

[ad_1] BRIDGEWATER, N.J. U.S. President Donald Trump spoke separately to the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar on Sunday to discuss his “concerns about the ongoing dispute” between Qatar and its Gulf and…

[ad_1] By Dave McKinney and Karen Pierog | CHICAGO CHICAGO Illinois’ Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed big, permanent income-tax rate increases on Sunday with the help of some Republican votes as the cash-strapped state scrambled…

[ad_1] By Jeff Mason | BRIDGEWATER, N.J. BRIDGEWATER, N.J. President Donald Trump stepped up his feud with the media on Sunday by tweeting a mock video of himself tackling and repeatedly striking a man with…

[ad_1] President Donald Trump will speak by phone on Sunday with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping, the White House said on Saturday. The White House, which announced the calls in…