Trump presses race as 2020 tactic, slams Cummings and Sharpton
President Donald Trump on Monday renewed his attacks on a prominent black U.S. lawmaker from Baltimore and slammed black civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton,...
Trump blasts Fed ahead of meeting, says likely to ‘do very little’
President Donald Trump on Monday downplayed any possible action by the Federal Reserve before U.S. central bank’s meeting this week, even as its rate-setting panel...
Factbox: Four moments to watch for as U.S. Democrats debate in Detroit
Twenty Democratic presidential hopefuls will take the stage in Detroit on Tuesday and Wednesday nights in their second debate of the nominating contest for the...
Kamala Harris releases Medicare-for-all plan ahead of second 2020 U.S. Democratic debate
U.S. Senator Kamala Harris on Monday released a Medicare-for-all proposal ahead of the second Democratic presidential debate, when candidates’ differing approaches to giving Americans greater...
Trump taps Rep. John Ratcliffe to replace Coats as spy chief
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would nominate Representative John Ratcliffe, a Republican who strongly defended him at a recent congressional hearing, to...
U.S. judge sets July 29 hearing in Trump lawsuit over tax returns
A U.S. judge will hear arguments on July 29 in President Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to block a House of Representatives committee from obtaining his...
Bernie Sanders visits Canadian pharmacy, talks drug prices
U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders joined diabetes patients as they drove across the border on Sunday to buy cheap insulin in Canada,...
White House defends Trump’s Baltimore insults
White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Sunday said he understood why the president’s attacks on a predominately African-American Congressional district could be...
Trump’s comments on black lawmaker hyperbole, not racism: top aide
President Donald Trump was speaking hyperbolically when he lashed out at a prominent African-American lawmaker by calling his district “disgusting, rat and rodent infested,” his...
Trump tells black lawmaker to clean ‘disgusting’ district
President Donald Trump hit out at a prominent African-American critic on Saturday, calling him a “brutal bully” who should concentrate on cleaning up his “disgusting,...