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The White House held its second State Dinner under President Donald Trump on Friday to mark Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's visit to the United States. A number of politicians, officials and celebrities including Attorney General Bill Barr, House…

The social media giant’s founder spent three days engaged in quiet diplomacy with members of Congress and President Donald Trump.

For at least one day, Mayor Bill de Blasio was in a New York state of mind.Far from the Iowa farms and South Carolina churches he frequented during his unlikely bid for the presidency, the mayor ended his campaign Friday with a subway ride to join tens of…

Joe Biden on Friday called on President Donald Trump to make public a July phone call at the center of a report that Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to find dirt on the Democratic presidential candidate's family."If these reports are…

The U.S. military is dispatching an undetermined number of additional forces to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to beef up air and missile defenses after blaming Iran for recent attacks on Saudi oil facilities, Defense Secretary Mark Esper told…

It's a familiar response when controversy seems to imperil Trump’s presidency.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson defended his comments about transgender people this week in an agency-wide email late Friday afternoon, calling press reports of the remarks “blatant mischaracterizations.”The Washington Post reported…

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Iowa Democrats could hold some of their 2020 primary caucuses outside of the state — perhaps as far away as Arizona and Florida — to accommodate “snow birds” or college students who are Iowa residents.Iowa Democrats floated the…

Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed changing federal law to specify that a sitting president can be indicted, even as she indicated she was no closer to moving to impeach President Donald Trump. In an interview with NPR published Friday, Pelosi argued that despite a…

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is sticking by his calls for forgiveness for Shane Gillis, the 31-year-old comedian who was hired and quickly fired by “Saturday Night Live” over past racist statements.“I actually sat there and watched some…

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will headline a big-ticket fundraising event for the Democratic National Committee in October, according to an invitation obtained by POLITICO.The pair will star at the DNC’s Women’s…

Facebook today announced that its internal probe of application developer conduct has led to tens of thousands of app suspensions, a disclosure that came amid a rare Washington visit from CEO Mark Zuckerberg.“To date, this investigation has addressed…

President Donald Trump on Friday shared details of his administration’s newest sanctions on Iran, targeting the Islamic Republic's national bank over Tehran’s alleged involvement in a series of drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities last weekend. Trump…

Gilbert Kaplan, the Commerce Department’s top trade enforcement official, resigned Thursday, further underscoring the turmoil that has gripped the agency under the leadership of Secretary Wilbur Ross.The departure of Kaplan, who served as undersecretary for…

The Human Rights Campaign excoriated Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson over a report that he disparaged transgender people in meetings with staff this week.“Ben Carson has spent his career in politics expressing disgust toward the existence…

South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign has hired Cecilia Cabello, a former operative for Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and state director for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, to run its operation in California. Cabello…

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Tensions are rising in the House Democratic caucus as a number of members say they feel they are being kept in the dark while nine of their colleagues negotiate changes to the new North American trade pact with the Trump administration. Members of the working…

Mayor Bill de Blasio ended his long-shot presidential bid Friday morning four months after he began, acknowledging he had no chance of winning the Democratic nomination.“I feel like I’ve contributed all I can to this primary election, and it’s clearly…

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds…

Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign has hired a black engagement director to improve the mayor's standing among African American voters in the Democratic primary.Angela M. Angel, a former state legislator in Maryland, will take charge of the Buttigieg…

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A power play by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ousted the woman responsible for winning Trump Florida in 2016.

Four fundraisers in the state netted a Trump fundraising committee $15 million.