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Don McGahn

Ex-White House lawyer won't testify after Trump direction

President Donald Trump directed his former White House Counsel Donald McGahn to defy a congressional subpoena Monday, citing ...

Donald Trump

Trump team to brief Congress on Iran; Dems seek counterpoint

As questions mount over President Donald Trump's tough talk on Iran, top national security officials are heading to Capitol ...

Donald Trump

Judge sides with Congress over Trump in demands for records

A federal judge ruled against President Donald Trump on Monday in a financial records dispute with Congress and said ...

Justin Amash, Jim Jordan

All by himself: Amash alone among GOP on impeachment

He was known in the Michigan statehouse as "Mr. No" for voting against some Republican legislation. But now in Congress, on ...

NY bill to let US House see Trump's state returns narrowed

Lawmakers in New York are seeking to sharply narrow a proposal that would grant congressional committees access to state tax ...

Governor orders probe of medical board in Ohio State abuse

Gov. Mike DeWine declared the late Ohio State University team doctor Richard Strauss a monster Monday as he ordered a review ...

Mitch McConnell

Senate GOP leader would raise age for buying tobacco to 21

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose home state of Kentucky was long one of the nation's leading tobacco producers, ...

David Tepper

South Carolina: Tax break for Carolina Panthers near passage

South Carolina is getting ready to offer the Carolina Panthers around $120 million in tax breaks to move practice fields and ...

Don McGahn

The Latest: Trump tells McGahn to defy Congress' subpoena

The Latest on Congress' response to special counsel Robert Mueller's report (all times local): 3:40 p.m. President Donald ...

US Sen. Edward Markey faces Democratic primary challenger

U.S. Sen. Edward Markey is facing a challenger in next year's Democratic primary in Massachusetts. Shannon Liss-Riordan, a ...

US judge to consider blocking new Mississippi abortion law

Inside Mississippi's only abortion clinic, administrator Shannon Brewer has been fielding phone calls from women who want to ...

Michigan's Amash, GOP Trump critic, faces primary challenge

Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, the first Republican in Congress to accuse President Donald Trump of impeachable conduct, is ...

Journalists quit Russia's leading business daily over report

Leading journalists at Russia's main business daily newspaper say they have been forced to quit over an article that ...

Brexiteer Farage splattered in latest UK milkshake attack

Pro-Brexit British politician Nigel Farage was hit with a milkshake while campaigning in the European Parliament election on ...

Italy's Catholic establishment faults Salvini for rosary

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Monday defended his invocation of God at a political rally, after Italy's ...

Tim Tanksley

Trump's EPA shifts more environmental enforcement to states

Susan Holmes' home, corner store and roadside beef jerky stand are right off Oklahoma Highway 31, putting them in the path ...

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

The Latest: Ukraine prime minister to quit in symbolic move

The Latest on Ukrainian politics (all times local): 6 p.m. Ukraine's prime minister says he will resign in a largely symbolic ...

Sweden requests detention order for WikiLeaks' Assange

Swedish authorities on Monday issued a request for a detention order against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is now ...

5 Catalan separatist leaders escorted to Spanish Parliament

The five separatist leaders on trial for Catalonia's 2017 secession attempt who were elected to the Spanish Parliament last ...

Hundreds protest Alabama abortion ban: 'My body, my choice!'

Hundreds of demonstrators marched to the Alabama Capitol on Sunday to protest the state's newly approved abortion ban, ...