U.S. Senate Democrats ask for details on antitrust probes into tech firms
Seven U.S. Senate Democrats asked the Trump administration on Friday to disclose details of possible Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department antitrust investigations into Amazon.com...
U.S. House Speaker Pelosi says she is glad Trump called off Iran strikes
U.S. House of Representatives’ Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday she was glad that President Donald Trump called off planned military strikes on Iranian targets,...
Wisconsin high court upholds legislature’s lame-duck curb of Democratic governor
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday upheld a last-ditch Republican move late last year to curb the powers of incoming Democratic Governor Tony Evers, ruling...
Conservative U.S. justices draw criticism by overruling precedent again
For the second time in six weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Friday overruled a decades-old legal precedent set by the court, this...
U.S. House panel subpoenas Trump associate Sater after no-show
A U.S. House panel issued a subpoena for testimony to Felix Sater after the Russian-born former business associate of President Donald Trump failed to appear...
Trump associate Sater cites health for skipping Congress meeting
Felix Sater, the Russian-born former business associate of President Donald Trump, failed to appear before a House of Representatives panel because of health issues, his...
U.S. Democratic 2020 candidate Warren calls for ban on private prisons
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Friday called for the elimination of privately run prisons and detention centers at the federal and state level,...
Centrist House Democrats back U.S. bills to protect elections, punish Russia
A bloc of centrist U.S. House Democrats on Friday threw their support behind a number of proposed bills aimed at securing future U.S. elections and...
For lesser-known Democrats, debates offer opportunity and risk
For most of the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders, next week’s debates will be their first leap into the high-risk, high-reward glare of the national political...
Democratic presidential hopefuls seek black support at South Carolina fish fry
A fish fry in South Carolina on Friday will draw the largest crowd of Democratic presidential candidates yet and give them a chance to gauge...