Politics

Twitter said it is “actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on January 20th, 2021,” Twitter spokesperson Nick Pacilio said in an email statement. The...

House lawmakers left Washington on Friday for Thanksgiving recess with no sign of progress on a new coronavirus relief package.Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and President-elect Joe...

Fox News pundit Geraldo Rivera on Friday proposed naming a coronavirus vaccine after President Donald Trump as a "nice gesture" after his election loss. Rivera, a longtime friend of the...

Donald Trump and his, uh, lawyer Rudy Giuliani are moving into the next phase of Trump's attempted coup, which entertainingly involves Giuliani sweating out the previous day's martinis into his hair...

Earlier this year, Kelly Loeffler—by many accounts the richest person in Congress—decided she wanted just a little more. Publicly, Loeffler, a former asset management executive whom Georgia’s Republican governor had...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley clashed on Twitter over government funding for struggling Americans amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Ocasio-Cortez tweeted earlier Thursday, suggesting that, in...

Federal data shows nearly 11 percent of adults – including up to 14 percent of adults living with children — report their households do not have enough to eat. Hopes that Congress...

Dire budget problems in cities from coast to coast mean that furloughs and layoffs of essential workers could ring in the new year. So President-elect Joe Biden will face instant,...

President-elect Joe Biden has laid out his plan to pull the economy back from the brink as Covid-19 cases snowball — but while economists say he is unlikely to get...

WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is asking the Supreme Court to put off upcoming arguments about whether Congress should have access to secret grand jury testimony from special...