Politics News

February 26, 2020

ABC News suspends reporter caught in Project Veritas 'sting'

ABC News has suspended political reporter David Wright after he was recorded in a barroom conversation calling President ...

February 26, 2020

Report: Domestic extremists killed at least 42 in 2019

White supremacists and other far-right extremists killed at least 38 people in the U.S. in 2019, the sixth deadliest year for ...

February 26, 2020

Police: `Critical incident' at Molson Coors in Milwaukee

Milwaukee police are responding to what they are calling a “critical incident” on the Molson Coors Brewing Co. campus amid ...

February 26, 2020

Colorado poised to become 22nd state with no death penalty

Colorado is set to become the 22nd U.S. state to abolish the death penalty after lawmakers on Wednesday approved a repeal ...

February 26, 2020

Shifting demographics drive GOP nosedive on US West Coast

In the early 1990s, the population of Bend was around 25,000 and leaned Republican. A lumber mill operated in the Oregon ...

February 26, 2020

Bloomberg's online campaign tests Facebook, Twitter rules

Mike Bloomberg’s stockpile of cash, swarm of employees and paid social media influencers are testing the abilities of online ...

February 26, 2020

California wildfire victims fear coming last in PG&E payout

A $13.5 billion settlement between victims of California's catastrophic wildfires and the utility blamed for causing them was ...

February 26, 2020

House makes lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Till

Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, the House has approved legislation designating ...

February 26, 2020

US adds leader of Iraqi militia to terrorism blacklist

The Trump administration on Wednesday added the head of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia responsible for attacks on U.S.

February 26, 2020

Son of Mexican cartel boss to stay in custody, pending trial

A federal judge on Wednesday declined to release the son of a fugitive Mexican drug kingpin pending the start of the son's ...

February 26, 2020

Supervised drug injection site in US is almost ready to open

A Philadelphia nonprofit group detailed plans Wednesday to open next week what would be the nation's first medically ...

February 26, 2020

Congress warns Pentagon not to move money to fund Trump wall

Lawmakers from both parties told Pentagon leaders on Wednesday that the Defense Department is undermining its own efforts to ...

February 26, 2020

Virginia lawmakers send LGBTQ protections bill to governor

Virginia lawmakers gave final passage Wednesday to a comprehensive anti-discrimination bill that advocates said will make the ...

February 26, 2020

On education, Sanders lauded for substance, knocked for cost

During the 2016 Democratic presidential race, when Bernie Sanders pushed making college free, it was seen as a radical idea ...

February 26, 2020

Court OKs Texas winner-take-all presidential elector system

The winner-take-all system Texas and 47 other states use to assign Electoral College presidential votes is constitutional, ...

February 26, 2020

The Latest: Sanders plans rally in Klobuchar's home state

The Latest on the Democratic presidential primary contest (all times local): 2:45 p.m. After taking aim at 2020 rival ...

February 26, 2020

Biden nabs Clyburn endorsement before South Carolina primary

U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, the highest-ranking black member of Congress and the kingmaker of South Carolina's Democratic ...

February 26, 2020

Lawyer says Assange shouldn't face 'political' extradition

A lawyer for Julian Assange argued Wednesday that the WikiLeaks founder should not be sent to the United States because a U.K

February 26, 2020

Court sides with Trump in 'sanctuary cities' grant fight

The Trump administration can withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants to force states to cooperate with U.S.