WASHINGTON Reuters The conservative U.S. political network led by billionaire Charles Koch on Tuesday endorsed Nikki Haley for the Republican presidential nomination, giving the former South Carolina governor a boost among party rivals struggling to make a dent against frontrunner Donald...

   WASHINGTON Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden on Tuesday offered to testify publicly in the House Republican impeachment inquiry of his father’s Democratic administration, while a leading lawmaker stuck to his demand of testimony behind closed doors.Escalating a months long...

   WASHINGTON Reuters A judge on Monday rejected Donald Trump’s request to see records from the congressional investigation of the Jan., attack on the U.S. Capitol, which the former president said may be relevant to his defense against election interference charges.U.S. District Judge Tanya...

   WASHINGTON Reuters Donald Trump has vowed to intensify his crackdown on immigration if he returns to the White House and has left the door open to resuming his most controversial policy family separations at the U.S. Mexico border but key allies who could join a new Trump administration as...

   Reuters U.S. Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota, a long shot challenger to President Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, on Friday said he would not run for reelection.The year old millionaire businessman and three term congressman last month said he would run against...

   Reuters The head of a political action committee PAC supporting Republican Ron DeSantis resigned on Wednesday, dealing a further blow to the Florida governor’s struggling White House campaign.Chris Jankowski, the chief executive of Never Back Down, the main super PAC backing DeSantis’s bid to...

   WASHINGTON Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden is more aggressively going after his likely election rival Donald Trump as polls show efforts to campaign on his own economic record are not working.Ramping up the rhetoric, Biden has in recent weeks said Trump uses language you heard in Nazi...

   Reuters Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was endorsed on Tuesday by an influential Iowa evangelical leader, Bob Vander Plaats, a much needed boost for a presidential campaign still struggling to find momentum ahead of next year’s Republican nominating contests.But with former President Donald Trump...

   WASHINGTON Reuters The U.S. Congress is facing growing calls to find a way to stem rising budget deficits and debt following this month’s warning by Moody’s that political dysfunction could lead it to lower the federal government’s credit rating.There is no rocket science to the three basic...

   Reuters A woman on Wednesday accused New York Mayor Eric Adams of sexual assault and other offenses in a court filing, alleging they occurred in while both of them worked for the city of New York.A spokesperson for Adams denied the claim and said the mayor does not know the accuser and does...

   WASHINGTON Reuters Former U.S. President Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in , has promised to crack down on illegal immigration and restrict legal immigration if elected to a second term in office.Here are some of the policies under...

   Reuters Former U.S. President Donald Trump faces a tangled calendar in the year ahead as he seeks the Republican nomination while defending himself in four criminal and at least three civil trials, some related to his attempts to overturn his loss.Here are key dates in Trump’s legal and...

   WASHINGTON Reuters Republican Donald Trump is planning to punish his political enemies, deport millions of migrants and reshape global trade with pricey tariffs if he wins a second White House term in the November presidential election, according to his campaign and media reports.Here is a...

   WASHINGTON Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden turned on Monday, a milestone that drew attention to his status as the oldest person ever to occupy the Oval Office, with opinion polls showing Americans worried he is too old for the post he is seeking re election to.White House press secretary...

   Reuters Elon Musk threatened on Saturday to sue media watchdog Media Matters and those who attacked his social media platform X, following moves by several large U.S. companies to halt advertising on the site after being promoted alongside antisemitic content.Musk and X have been under a...

   Reuters Former President Donald Trump leads a pack of seven Republican candidates jostling to be their party’s presidential nominee for the election, while President Joe Biden faces little opposition in the Democratic Party.Here is a timeline of events related to the Nov., , election...

   WASHINGTON Reuters U.S. appeals court judges on Monday signaled skepticism toward Donald Trump’s bid to overturn a gag order imposed on the former president in a federal criminal case in which he is accused of illegally trying to overturn his election defeat.As Trump lawyer D. John Sauer...

   Reuters Republican Donald Trump won the endorsement of Texas Governor Greg Abbott at an event near the U.S. Mexico border on Sunday, a location meant to highlight the former U.S. president’s plans to crack down on immigration if he wins the election.Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican...

   FORT DODGE, Iowa Reuters Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, said on Saturday that he would kill off a Pacific trade pact being advanced by U.S. President Joe Biden if he were to win the election and return to the White House.Speaking to supporters in...

   WASHINGTON Reuters A Colorado judge on Friday allowed Donald Trump to remain on the ballot in the state’s election next year, but found that he engaged in insurrection by sparking the Jan., , attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.The ruling from Judge Sarah Wallace, which is...

   WASHINGTON Reuters Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump’s election interference case in Georgia on Friday proposed starting the trial on Aug., , just months before the November U.S. presidential election.If that date is accepted by Judge Scott McAfee, Trump could potentially be on...

   WASHINGTON Reuters The White House on Friday challenged the validity of an impeachment inquiry run by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives into President Joe Biden’s son’s business dealings.A letter from White House legal counsel Dick Sauber sent to House Republicans leading the...

   WASHINGTON Reuters Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows filed notice on Tuesday seeking to move a case brought against him by the district attorney in Georgia’s Fulton County to federal court, according to a court document.Meadows, who served in the Trump administration, was among...

   WASHINGTON Reuters Embattled U.S. Representative George Santos faced a fresh effort to expel him from Congress on Friday, the day after fellow lawmakers released a report that suggested federal prosecutors should bring additional criminal charges against him.House of Representatives Ethics...

   NEW YORK Reuters Facing a likely choice between Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Joe Biden in the presidential race, many Americans are desperate for younger, less divisive options.A large and potentially consequential market for third party candidates one not seen since the s is...

   Reuters Donald Trump wasted little time attacking a New York judge’s top clerk on Thursday after an appeals court paused a gag order barring the former U.S president from speaking publicly about court staff amid his civil fraud trial.Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential...

   SAN FRANCISCO Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden signed on Thursday a stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown, a day after the Senate passed it, the White House said.Biden signed the document on the sidelines of a dinner at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco, where leaders...

   NEW YORK Reuters A New York appeals court judge on Thursday paused a gag order that had barred Donald Trump from speaking publicly about court staff amid the former U.S. president’s civil fraud trial.Appeals court Justice David Friedman said the gag order would be temporarily lifted. Considering...

   NEW YORK Reuters A federal judge rejected Donald Trump’s bid to add a new expert witness just two months before a trial addressing how much the former U.S. president owes for defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll, saying Trump made his own bed by waiting too long.Trump had claimed he would...

   WASHINGTON Reuters Embattled Republican U.S. Representative George Santos said on Thursday he will not run for re election in an announcement made shortly after the release of a scathing report by fellow lawmakers that referred more uncharged and unlawful conduct to the Justice Department for...