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On Wednesday, Donald Trump wrote his name in the history books. Or, more accurately, tweeted it....

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats argued that President Donald Trump sought a phony investigation of a political rival and pursued a discredited conspiracy theory about Ukraine, while restless senators......

The White House says President Donald Trump will hold a signing ceremony for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement Wednesday...

CLAREMONT, New Hampshire Tulsi Gababrd said that the $50 million in damages sought in her defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton is not enough....

Gov. Bill Lee, (R-Tenn.) proposed an...

Tri-L's in Session...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke on stage with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event at the Riverside Church in Harlem. The two discussed King's legacy and the oversimplification of his message. Coates pointed out that while...

The move, which would be unlikely to happen until after the Senate impeachment trial, could enhance her chances of becoming vice president but could also anger liberals in California....

President Trump plans to sign the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) into law next Wednesday at the White House....

To accomplish all this with no legislation from Congress is truly astounding...

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos gave a pep talk Thursday to representatives and supporters of historically black colleges and universities gathered to discuss how to ensure... Read More The post DeVos Hails Trump's 'Partnership'; With Historic ...

In July 2018, Commentary published an article by Yuval Levin that caused everyone who thinks about the balance of power among the branches in Washington, D.C., to say: "Of course! That's it exactly!" It had long been observed that Congress had...

It's Day 2 of Democrats laying out their case to remove President Donald Trump from office. Here are 3 things to know....

The Greatest Political Scandal in US History As Cristina Laila reported earlier today — The FISC [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] admitted in a secret order that at least two of the spy warrants against Carter Page were not lawfully authori...

If the retiring Republican senator embraces a call for witnesses, it would upend plans for a quick Trump acquittal....

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, says she asked Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to reprimand Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., for accusing senators of participating in a cover-up while he was trying to convince them to call witnesses in the Senate impeachm...

This is a new one. The New York Times headline read: "Minimum Wage Raises Could Lower Suicide Rates, Study Says." But there was a subheadline: "It was the latest study to suggest that effects of wage increases reach beyond economic welfare, bu...

Bernie Sanders' campaign recently stabbed Elizabeth Warren in the back. She was the Vermont senator's comrade in arms. It also threw a pack of lies at Joe Biden, tarring him as corrupt with zero evidence. As former Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin told ...

Lawmakers, required to sit through the trial in silence and without their phones, have grown increasingly comfortable testing those rules as the trial wears on....

House Democrats on Thursday used the second day of opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial to paint a dark portrait of a president who put his own interests above those of the country — and betrayed his office in the process....

Senate Republican leaders feel confident they will have the votes to block the Democrats' attempt to subpoena additional witnesses and documents in President Trump's impeachment trial, which could allow the proceeding to wrap up by the end of next...

I don't know about you, but I'm a little tired of Rep. Adam Schiff and the Democratic horde's portraying every charge against President Donald Trump as Trump's effort to interfere with this or that election. In his opening statement at the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys general in 20 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a federal regulation that could allow blueprints for making guns on 3D printers......

Davos is just the beginning. Get ready for Alfalfa, Aspen, Milken, Sun Valley, Sicily . . ....

Two major stories top the news the Democratic Party's illegitimate leftist effort to oust our duly elected President Donald Trump by dishonest impeachment, and the rapidly-spreading epidemic from China of a dangerous respiratory disease. These two sto...

It's an uncomfortable scenario for a pro-abortion attorney general like Keith Ellison in Minnesota. As the state's top legal officer, he's required to defend its laws. But a law now under challenge is pro-life. The law requires a 24-hour waiti...

Not many people think of President Donald Trump as a detailed policy innovator. His detractors still view him as a buffoon unequipped to run the country. His supporters view him as a guy who has succeeded on great instincts. Not many view the president as...

Chris Matthews thinks that the impeachment trial is actually 'in the sentencing phase' of the impeachment trial, that lawmakers have their mind made up on whether Trump committed abuse of power....

Overheard convo between two Republican Senators who only watch Fox News. "is this stuff real? I haven't heard any of this before. I thought it was all about a server. If half the stuff Schiff is saying is true, we're up shit's creek. Hope ...

Stopped in a hallway outside the Senate chamber, Sen. Elizabeth Warren was asked what she'd seen that was "new." Her immediate response — the presentation that had just finished from Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. Warren is right. The facts that ...

Ten years ago, the Supreme Court overturned portions of a federal law that empowered government to dictate how Americans who were not connected to any candidates and political parties could practice their inherent right of free expression. It was one of t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the otherwise scripted impeachment trial, it was a rare spontaneous moment: Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump's chief defenders, stopped Rep. Adam Schiff, the......

A community in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is rallying behind a Mexican national on the waiting list for a double-lung transplant....

The British socialite who allegedly helped procure girls for Jeffrey Epstein is arguing against the further public release of court records sought by the Miami Herald. She says a previous release led someone to hack her emails....

Academics said Wednesday that they want a professor reinstated after he was fired for saying that Iran should list American sites to bomb....

Happy Thursday and welcome to Overnight Defense. I'm Ellen Mitchell, and here's your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond....

- Joe Biden says he will not participate in the impeachment trial even if he is subpoenaed. - How exactly did Mike Bloomberg make his billions?...

NEW YORK (AP) — They are circling each other like wary boxers, with taunts on Twitter, snarky asides and belittling depictions of one another. They rose to prominence in Manhattan on parallel......

Three of the House impeachment managers presiding over the impeachment trial in the Senate claimed that if the Senate votes to acquit President Trump, it would lead to the belief that the process was...

Here's why he is still winning....

The senator quickly shot down the idea that President Trump should attend the trial, a possibility the president floated this week....

White House advisers warned Trump that outreach would not help his cause, while Democrats say there is no serious effort to privately lobby the key Republicans....

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There will be 24 hours of presentation by House Impeachment Managers (over 3 days); 24 hours of presentation by Defense team (over 3 days); 16 hours of Senate questioning; 4 hours of closing argume......

The acclaimed playwright and screenwriter David Mamet told Breitbart News on Thursday that he thinks Donald Trump is a...

President Donald Trump is set to hold a re-election "Keep America Great" rally in New Hampshire the night before the state's first-in-the-nation primary....

Democrats argued that President Donald Trump sought a phony investigation of a political rival and pursued a discredited conspiracy theory about Ukraine, while restless senators played with a new toy Thursday during Trump's impeachment trial...

Former Vice President Joe Biden is leading the Democratic presidential primary field, according to a new national poll....

Mixing video, some levity, and senators' words from the Clinton impeachment era, Democrats' overstuffed pre-buttal sought to discredit the Trump defenders' case before it starts....