Pete Buttigieg served as a two-term mayor of South Bend from 2012 to 2020, making urban development and economic revitalization cornerstones of his administration.

The president ordered the ambassador recalled after complaints from allies outside the administration that she was undermining him and obstructing efforts to persuade Kyiv to investigate Joe Biden,...

The Kentucky Republican senator wants more oversight of spending but rejects holding an amendment vote on the nearly $40 billion U.S. aid package.

The prominent member of the progressive “squad” in Congress who has sparred with President Trump won her primary, putting her on track for a second term.

The company said it is raising domestic mask production, importing masks from its plant in China and taking action against price-gouging on masks that medical workers need to treat patients infected...

Sen. Bernie Sanders, who criticized opponent Hillary Clinton for her recent comments on former first lady Nancy Reagan and AIDS, will propose his own platform Monday to spur development of drugs that...

Despite warnings from the Vatican, U.S. church leaders agreed to prepare a document that would lay out the conditions under which politicians who support abortion rights, including President Biden,...

President Trump’s executive order calls on law enforcement to adopt stricter use-of-force standards and create a database to track officers accused of misconduct, amid sustained public anger over...

At a lively Sunday march in support of former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, chants of "lock her up," "Hillary for Prison" signs and t-shirts and calls for indictment were common...

The district attorney’s office is investigating President Trump’s Westchester, N.Y., estate, expanding a criminal probe set to follow the president after he leaves office.

Trump’s U.N. ambassador says the Republican Party needs the former president, but she believes he was defeated in 2020 election.

The Trump administration’s addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census was unlawful “for a multitude of independent reasons,” a federal judge in New York ruled.

Boxes recovered from Donald Trump’s Florida home in January contained more than 700 pages of classified material, including documents marked as extremely sensitive, according to correspondence...

While the challenges by 11 current or incoming Republican senators aren’t expected to succeed, they highlight deepening divisions within the party.

The president launched efforts intended to push back on Beijing for tightening control over Hong Kong and for alleged misdeeds from espionage to its coronavirus response, in moves likely to heighten...

U.S. senators are introducing a bipartisan bill that would sanction Chinese officials and entities who enforce the new national-security laws in Hong Kong, and penalize banks that do business with...

Despite his claims, former President Donald Trump privately conceded he lost to Joe Biden, according to video testimony from former administration officials. He also took dramatic steps to potentia...

Support for Donald Trump among Republicans has declined in the past month, leaving him slightly behind Sen. Ted Cruz in the GOP presidential race, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran is usually a reliable supporter of his party’s leadership, but he spent more than an hour poking holes in the GOP health bill at an overcrowded forum in this town of 278 people.

Some Republicans in this tidy Cincinnati suburb, long a GOP stronghold, say they are unhappy with President Trump’s tone.

A federal judge voiced skepticism of a request by President Trump and several Trump entities to block a subpoena by House Democrats seeking financial records from the president’s longtime accounting...

The Trump administration imposed sanctions on a Chinese organization and two current and former officials that U.S. officials say are linked to human-rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim populat...

President Trump has opened a new charm offensive aimed at appealing to America’s oldest voters who polls show are souring on his re-election amid the coronavirus crisis.

Gary Fishman is one of the two assistant attorneys general working with the Manhattan district attorney’s office on the Trump investigation as part of an unusual collaboration with the New York...

The Justice Department is investigating ZTE for possible bribes of foreign officials, which could subject the Chinese telecom giant to a fresh round of criminal penalties amid increasing tensions...

New legislation aims to stop China and others from stealing U.S. taxpayer-funded research at universities by enhancing the authority of federal agencies to monitor and punish the schools and scient...

The Justice Department is investigating ZTE for possible bribes of foreign officials, which could subject the Chinese telecom giant to a fresh round of criminal penalties amid increasing tensions...

An indictment of a Chinese researcher, who is accused of concealing on her U.S. visa application that she is a lieutenant in the Chinese military, shows how American universities’ openness to...

President Trump’s decision to downgrade relations with Hong Kong shows how his clashes with China increasingly feature ideological differences that are more difficult to resolve than trade disputes.

President Trump said he signed into law a bipartisan sanctions bill to punish Chinese officials over Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong, in an hour-long press conference at the White House dominated by...

The Education Department has asked the University of Texas System to provide documentation of its dealings with the Chinese laboratory U.S. officials are investigating as a potential source of the...

The State Department said it is classifying the China-backed Confucius Institute U.S. Center as a foreign mission to draw scrutiny to the ways the Trump administration says the center’s Chinese...

Former Attorney General William Barr’s book recounts a confrontational meeting in the Oval Office and says the Republican Party needs to focus on rising new leaders.

New legislation aims to stop China and others from stealing U.S. taxpayer-funded research at universities by enhancing the authority of federal agencies to monitor and punish the schools and scient...

An indictment of a Chinese researcher, who is accused of concealing on her U.S. visa application that she is a lieutenant in the Chinese military, shows how American universities’ openness to...

The financial-technology company is cutting off the president’s campaign account for violating its policies against encouraging violence.

The recent arrest of a Harvard chemistry professor is but one case of how Chinese funding for American researchers is creating tension between national security and academic freedom.

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri cited election-integrity concerns around the November presidential vote. No significant evidence has emerged that would challenge the result.

Expanding broadband access has broad bipartisan support, but Republicans say Democrats are taking the wrong approach.

The U.K. Foreign Office defended its ambassador to the U.S. after a British newspaper published what it said were leaked diplomatic cables to London critical of President Trump.

The 2019 report sought to recall the lasting strengths and perpetual vulnerabilities of the constitutional system.

President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a cabinet-level task force addressing veteran suicide, to be directed by Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has so far won 70.7 million votes across the nation, according to the Associated Press tally, breaking the previous record held by former President Barack Obama in the...

The agency outlined criteria for approving a Covid-19 vaccine, including that any such treatment be at least 50% more effective than a placebo in preventing the disease—a common benchmark for flu...

The legislation assembled by the Congressional Black Caucus wraps together a flurry of bills with a new focus on holding police officers accountable for misconduct in response to the protests sparked...