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California launches new push to help close gender pay gap in state

A group led by California’s first partner, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, on Monday launched a new campaign to raise awareness of the gender pay gap as part of an effort to achieve pay equality for women....

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Mike Gravel has filed to run for president but intends to drop out after...

Former Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska, 88, is running for president, his campaign said, a month after college-age fans eager to push the Democrats further to the left started boosting his Twitter cred....

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House votes to condemn Trump support for Obamacare repeal

Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, speaks during an event to call for the protection of affordable healthcare for those with preexisting conditions during a press...

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NY Dem calls AOC’s Green New Deal a ‘socialist’ lie, dares her to recruit...

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal is “a lie to voters” and a “massive socialist” program, a fellow New York Democrat, U.S. Rep. Max Rose, asserted in a television interview. Rose...

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Lockheed Martin, Raytheon prepare big changes amid US dispute with Turkey on...

In September, CNBC learned that Turkey was in the process of constructing a site for the Russian S-400 system despite warnings from the United States to not buy the platform, according to a source...

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Russian academic linked to Flynn denies being spy, says her past contact was...

Was Michael Flynn targeted? Russian woman claims she was manipulated into entrapping Gen. Flynn; Fox News chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reports. EXCLUSIVE: A Russian-born...

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Trump hires law firm to fight House Democrat bid to get tax returns

The letter escalates the legal dispute between the White House and House Democrats, who formally requested the president’s tax returns on Wednesday evening. Trump, who came into office in 2017 still...

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Trump says Dems have let anti-Semitism ‘take root’ in their party

President Donald Trump speaks at an annual meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Saturday, April 6, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) President Trump said Saturday that Democrats have...

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Has not read the Mueller report but ‘has every right to do so’

President Donald Trump declared on Saturday that he has “every right” to read the extensive report submitted by special counsel Robert Mueller last month. Mueller delivered the conclusions of the...

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Booker raises $5 million, lagging behind multiple Democrats running for White...

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker’s campaign for president announced Sunday it raised over $5 million in February and March, and it had over $6.1 million cash on hand. It was among the smallest fundraising...

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Secret Service Chief is fired: NBC News

U.S. Secret Service Director Randolph Alles is out of his job, NBC News reported Monday. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Alles “has done a great job at the...

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Hawley suggests Trump admin strip Yale of federal funding if ‘targeting’ of...

Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley sent a letter early Tuesday to Attorney General William Barr calling for the Justice Department to closely monitor Yale University — and to cut off the institution’s...

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Texas Tech med school agrees to no longer consider race in admissions

The move appears to be the first time the Trump administration has secured a commitment from a school to no longer consider race in admissions. The agreement requires that the school revise all of its...

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White House rips Omar for calling Stephen Miller a ‘white nationalist,’...

The White House on Wednesday slammed Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for calling White House adviser Stephen Miller a white nationalist, describing her remarks as “completely ignorant” and accusing her of...

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Vice President Mike Pence backs Trump’s call to lower interest rates

Vice President Mike Pence said that despite his bullish view of the state of the economy, he backs the president’s calls for further rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. The comments came in response...

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Ohio governor signs ‘heartbeat’ abortion bill into law

Ohio Gov. Bill DeWine signed into law on Thursday one of the nation’s toughest restrictions on abortion. The Republican governor signed the so-called “heartbeat” bill after the state legislature...

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White House considered dumping migrants in ‘sanctuary cities’

Trump administration officials sought to bus detained immigrants to so-called sanctuary cities as a way to retaliate against the president’s adversaries, two sources with knowledge of the discussions...

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AOC faces backlash for using ‘First they came …‘ Holocaust poem in defense of...

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., continues to ignite outrage while defending freshman colleague Rep. Ilhan Omar, this time by using a poem about the Holocaust to defend the Minnesota...

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Trump tweets he is considering releasing ICE detainees in sanctuary cities

“….The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy – so this should make them very happy!” the president wrote in a second tweet. Trump’s announcement is a near-total reversal...

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Trump reciprocates after North Korea’s Kim says he’s open to third summit

President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un take a walk after their first meeting at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi hotel, in Hanoi in February. (Associated Press) President Trump on...

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