ST. LOUIS—Democrats approved a draft of the party platform early Saturday that includes steps to break up large Wall Street banks, advocates for a $15 an hour wage and urges the abolition of the death penalty, reflecting the influence of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. Supporters of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton defeated measures pushed by […]

Bernie Sanders said that he is going to vote for Hillary Clinton in the November general election, stopping short of throwing his full support behind her.

WASHINGTON—An Associated Press review of the official calendar Hillary Clinton kept as secretary of state identified at least 75 meetings with longtime political donors, Clinton Foundation contributors and corporate and other outside interests that were not recorded or omitted the names of those she met. The fuller details of those meetings were included in files […]

Donald Trump asserted his support for Brexit and compared it to his 2016 Presidential campaign.

WASHINGTON— By deadlocking on President Barack Obama's immigration program, the Supreme Court not only scuttled a policy the White House hoped would be a cornerstone of the president's legacy — it added another chapter to Obama's turbulent history ...

Corey Lewandowski got a new job just 3 days after getting fired from Donald Trump's campaign.

WASHINGTON — Former Secretary Hillary Clinton failed to turn over a copy of a key message involving problems caused by her use of a private homebrew email server, the State Department confirmed Thursday. The disclosure makes it unclear what other work-related emails may have been deleted by the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. The email was […]

Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has narrowed her list to three contenders. But that list does not include the running mate favored by the public—her Democratic rival in the primaries, Bernie Sanders.  In a new poll conducted by Monmouth University, 39 percent of registered voters said Sanders would make them more likely to support Clinton. Among […]

Quillupangui had hoped the Supreme Court would vote in favor of Obama's immigration policies—which, in simple terms, would have meant a better job and a driver's license for her mother. And neither of her parents having to worry about deportation.

Democrats continued to hold a sit-in on the House Floor by the afternoon of June 23, but it may not have a big impact on gun control.

Members of the Bush presidential administrations have split their support between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

WASHINGTON—A drained and dwindling group of Democrats carried their remarkable House floor sit-in into the morning Thursday, disrupting the business of Congress in the wake of the Orlando shooting rampage and making demands for gun-control votes in an extraordinary protest broadcast live to the world. Republicans, who control the chamber, refused to yield, branding the […]

WASHINGTON— Democrats carried a remarkable House floor sit-in into a second day, disrupting the business of Congress with demands for gun-control votes in an unruly scene broadcast live to the world. Republicans branded the move as a publicity stunt ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.— Republican Sen. Marco Rubio's decision to run for president set off a scramble to replace him. His last minute decision to run for re-election set off a scramble — though much smaller — to get out of the Senate race.A crowded R...

Ted Cruz has yet to make a presidential endorsement, but he has endorsed Marco Rubio's reelection as a Florida Senator.

Donald Trump shifted gears towards a general election and took aim at Hillary Clinton's policies while giving an outline of what a Trump presidency would look like.

In another push for tighter gun control measures to be enacted, Democrats held a sit-in on the House Floor on June 22. Led by Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), the move follows a string of failed gun control measures following the Orlando shooting on June 12, in which 49 people died and 53 were injured. Lewis had the Floor when he asked […]

Donald Trump vowed to "go it alone" with or without the support of the establishment GOP, and it appears more likely that his assertion will be put to test.

WASHINGTON — What about Bernie? Sanders was mathematically eliminated from the Democratic presidential race earlier this month, but the Vermont senator isn’t ready to bow out and that means highly trained Secret Service agents shadow his every move at a cost to taxpayers of tens of thousands of dollars a day. Sanders, who touts his […]

WASHINGTON— House Republicans are unveiling new proposals to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's health care law, as Speaker Paul Ryan seeks to showcase a GOP governing agenda amid the tumult of the presidential campaign.The plan, revealed We...

WASHINGTON— The "dump Trump" movement is gaining followers among delegates to next month's Republican National Convention, an effort that could tarnish Donald Trump's coronation even if it ultimately fails.Several hundred Republican delegates are org...

A growing unease among GOP leaders about their presumptive candidate, Donald Trump, has renewed talk within the party of blocking Trump from becoming their nominee at the Republican National Convention in July. That debate took a concrete step the week of June 19 when 400 Republican delegates joined a movement called “Free the Delegates,” which […]

WASHINGTON — White House spokesman Josh Earnest is denouncing as “a shameful display of cowardice” the Senate’s failure to pass gun control measures in the aftermath of the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida. Earnest told CNN on Tuesday that the Republican-led chamber’s blocking of four gun control proposals Monday does nothing to keep extremists from acquiring […]

  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton plans to portray Republican Donald Trump as an erratic and unfit steward of the nation’s economy, returning to Ohio to press the case that workers would bear the brunt of the business mogul’s policies. Clinton’s Tuesday address in Ohio, one of the nation’s most prominent […]

  LAS VEGAS—A man arrested at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas told authorities he tried to grab an officer’s gun so he could kill the candidate, according to federal authorities. A complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Nevada charges Michael Steven Sandford with an act of violence on restricted grounds. He’s […]

Donald Trump's presidential campaign took a dramatic turn with the firing of campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Monday, June 20.

WASHINGTON— Democrats get their long-sought votes on gun control a week after the massacre in Orlando, Florida, but election-year politics and the powerful National Rifle Association dim any prospects for changes in the nation's laws.The Senate will ...