WASHINGTON -- It isn't just President Donald Trump who thinks the media engages in "fake news" about him and his administration.

A poll by Morning Consult and Politico, the Washington, D.C-area media brand, shows that 46 percent of registered voters believe the nation's major news organizations fabricate stories about the president, his ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Ahead of his first trip to India, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday used a speech about the world's largest democracy to take a jab at the Pacific region's other powerhouse, China.

Tillerson heaped praise on India's vibrant growth and declared the United States its partner.

He also commended India for respecting ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Greg Pence, the oldest brother of Vice President Mike Pence, has filed paperwork to run for Congress, The Associated Press reports.

Pence has long been considering running for Indiana's 6th District, which Rep. Luke Messer is vacating to run for Senate. Pence is currently the finance chair of Messer's Senate campaign.

Pence has ...Read more

JOHANNESBURG -- A repeat presidential election in Kenya due next week was plunged into crisis Wednesday when senior electoral officials spoke out against threats and interference from politicians, and a senior electoral commissioner fled to the U.S. citing death threats.

With a new election due in just over a week, after the Supreme Court ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Two executives of a firm that helped produce an opposition research dossier that makes salacious claims about President Donald Trump's ties to Russia refused to answer questions Wednesday in a private meeting with the House Intelligence Committee.

Fusion GPS partners Peter Fritsch and Thomas Catan invoked their Fifth Amendment ...Read more

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- Crews on Wednesday continued to increase containment of a cluster of deadly wildfires that have ravaged Northern California, while authorities announced the discovery of another fire victim -- a development that brought the fatality count to 42.

Authorities confirmed a 23rd death in Sonoma County -- 22 from the Tubbs fire ...Read more

A federal judge in Maryland early Wednesday joined another federal judge in Hawaii, halting President Donald Trump's latest travel ban.

U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang's order came just hours after U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson in Hawaii issued an order Tuesday blocking Trump's ban for what he said was its violation of immigration law....Read more

A federal judge in Maryland early Wednesday joined another federal judge in Hawaii, halting President Donald Trump's latest travel ban.

U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang's order came just hours after U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson in Hawaii issued an order Tuesday blocking Trump's ban for what he said was its violation of immigration law....Read more

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions returns to face his former Senate Judiciary Committee colleagues Wednesday in an oversight hearing likely to include contentious questions about Justice Department actions since he took on the role eight months ago.

"The attorney general will earn his money that day," said committee member John ...Read more

TEL AVIV, Israel -- Israel is wasting no time in trying to translate Donald Trump's call for a tougher approach to Iran into action.

The government is making a diplomatic push to extend restrictions in the international nuclear deal with Iran to its development of ballistic missiles, sponsorship of terrorist acts and weapons proliferation to ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A Democratic Florida congresswoman became the latest target of a morning presidential twitter attack, with Donald Trump alleging Rep. Frederica Wilson "totally fabricated" his call to the widow of a U.S. soldier killed in Niger.

Trump called the widow of Sgt. La David T. Johnson on Tuesday afternoon, shortly before his body was ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump started Wednesday by twisting the findings of two senior Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans, tweeting that Hillary Clinton was among "people not interviewed" by the FBI in an investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of State.

The FBI released documents Monday that show then-FBI ...Read more

MIAMI -- President Donald Trump accused a Miami-Dade Democratic congresswoman Wednesday morning of lying about his response to a fallen soldier's widow -- that "he knew what he signed up for" -- and said he had proof of the conversation.

U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, who represents Miami Gardens, "totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a ...Read more

ISLAMABAD -- A Taliban suicide bomber attacked a vehicle carrying police in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six officers and wounding nearly two dozen other people, officials said.

The bombing occurred in the city of Quetta, the capital of the province of Balochistan, which shares borders with Afghanistan and Iran, police official ...Read more