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Martin Scorsese has tackled the mob, the Dalai Lama and the real-life Wolf of Wall Street. But Mr. Scorsese appears to have met his match in Bill Clinton.
Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney did not emerge from a Salt Lake City meeting on Thursday with a proposal about how to reconcile their competing plans to run for the…
NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo wasn’t the one in custody on Thursday. But the arrest of powerful New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver could spell plenty of trouble…
President Barack Obama said during a YouTube interview Thursday that he believes more states will consider legalizing recreational marijuana, citing his administration’s hands-off approach to prohibition-ending cannabis laws in Colorado…
WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) – The United States and Iraq have started preparing for an offensive by summer to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul, which was taken by Islamic…
WASHINGTON — Less than a month into his first term as a U.S. Senator, Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton is already proving to be one of the most hardline foreign policy…
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) appeared to be have pulled off a masterful political victory against the Obama administration Wednesday when he revealed that he had invited Israeli…
By Mark Hosenball and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) – The United States has pulled more staff out of its embassy in Yemen, U.S. officials said on Thursday as…
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are gearing up to fight their new Republican chairman’s attempts to reclaim the panel’s report on the CIA’s torture program, setting the…
WASHINGTON — A group of anti-abortion millennials showed up at Rep. Renee Ellmers’ office Thursday afternoon to tell her how angry they were that she helped sink a bill that…
President Barack Obama released a statement Thursday on the death of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. – Read more on the king’s death here.
WASHINGTON — Last August, two young undocumented immigrants approached Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) while they were eating lunch to ask whether the lawmakers thought they…
WASHINGTON -– The world crept closer to doomsday on Thursday. That’s according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which each year updates the hands on a clock meant to…
The result of that redrafting process is a significantly watered-down version of the Nuclear Free Iran Act of 2013, also known as Kirk-Menendez, that addresses much of the criticism the…
This story was originally published by The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C. It will take hundreds of millions of dollars to win…
“Recent events have highlighted that recovering flight data can be costly and difficult when an accident occurs in a remote area, outside radar coverage,” the NTSB wrote in the letter…
WASHINGTON — While Republican lawmakers squabbled over a single bill banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, the anti-abortion movement’s leadership found common ground Wednesday discussing long-term strategy at a…
Now it looks like Netanyahu will be coming later than expected. Boehner originally said Wednesday Netanyahu’s address would be Feb. 11. But on Thursday Boehner tweeted that “at his request”…
WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday he hoped the Supreme Court would issue a ruling that would prevent states from banning gay marriage when…
WASHINGTON — One of the most powerful House Democrats on trade offered a ray of hope to President Barack Obama on Thursday, seeking to draw attention away from a controversial…
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Thursday tapped former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to serve as chairman of his education foundation, turning over the organization to the former diplomat…
The Tom Brady deflation scandal roiled Washington, a town with little patience for rich white men giving themselves unfair advantages. Mitt Romney says he’s “the kind of Republican who believes…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday mocked former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush for meeting privately in Utah as both men consider bids for the…
READ: Top health official involved with Obamacare resigns According to a copy of the letter obtained by CNN, “The committee is concerned … that sensitive consumer information submitted by visitors…
“Glad to be back,” Reid said, seated in front of reporters and cameras at a conference table in his office. The Democratic Senate leader described in graphic detail what surgeons…
Poll: Clinton clobbers potential GOP foes – Because Clinton is a former first lady and secretary of state, she regularly travels with a cadre of agents who protect her wherever…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee on Thursday endorsed continuing the federally required annual testing of students under the No Child Left Behind…
Rep. Adam Schiff is the latest California Democrat to eye retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer’s seat, saying he is giving “serious consideration” to running in the 2016 race. – “The demands…
This photo series originally appeared in the February issue of National Geographic magazine. Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan often return home with wounds that can’t be seen…
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill in the House on Wednesday that aims to put an end to the federal ban on hemp production in the United States….