Denial is not just for climate change anymore. In a political environment in which charges of puffery, deception and fake news abound, a new controversy has been joined, and it returns to grounds that have long proved fertile for conspiracy theories: medicine.

The newest charge of "fake news" has been lodged against those who would argue that ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- House Majority Whip Steve Scalise is still in the hospital, but strong enough that he called in to the weekly whip team on Monday.

The Louisiana Republican was patched in "to thank the whips for their hard work and let them know he is looking forward to working through the rehab process and returning to the Capitol once he is ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO -- It has been a decade since Al Gore released "An Inconvenient Truth," the Oscar-winning documentary that catapulted the one-time presidential candidate to the front lines of climate change activism. Now he's back with "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power," which follows the former vice president as he travels the world to talk...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions faced increasing questions about his future on Monday, a day that began with a fresh public slap from his boss, President Donald Trump, and continued with new calls to testify about his conversations with the Russian ambassador last year.

Sessions, the first senator to endorse Trump and a strong ...Read more

SEATTLE -- The Seattle LGBTQ Commission on Monday released a letter calling on Mayor Ed Murray to resign now, before his term expires at the end of the year, "due to allegations and mounting evidence that you have repeatedly engaged in sexual abuse of minors."

But four former Seattle mayors -- Wes Uhlman, Charles Royer, Norm Rice and Greg ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- Sen. Kamala Harris' pitch to revamp the nation's bail system so lower income people don't get stuck in jail got a rousing reaction Monday at the NAACP's annual convention.

But her effort faces tough opposition from law and order groups.

Harris, D-Calif., unveiled her bail overhaul plan last week, legislation she's co-sponsoring ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Monday morning criticized the Democratic leader of the House investigation into Russian attempts to interfere with the 2016 election, calling California Rep. Adam Schiff "sleazy" and "biased."

Schiff is the highest ranking Democrat on the House Select Intelligence Committee, which is examining whether the...Read more

BERRYVILLE, Va. -- The Democratic Party's top leaders talked about reviving Teddy Roosevelt's fights against big corporations, mimicked Bernie Sanders' calls for a massive minimum wage hike, and echoed Franklin Roosevelt's promise to deliver a "New Deal" to the American public.

It was the kind of message the party's liberal wing has waited ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- African-American activists have a message for Democrats: If you want to win back the White House, strongly consider a black person on the ticket.

On their list are a growing roster of black politicians, notably Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Kamala Harris, D-Calif., former Attorney General Eric Holder and Deval Patrick, former ...Read more

LONDON -- Quiet sobs reverberated in a London courtroom Monday as the parents of the terminally ill baby Charlie Gard told a judge that they had decided to let their "sweet, gorgeous and innocent" boy go and were withdrawing a bid to bring him to the United States for experimental treatment.

Bowing to the consensus of medical experts, Charlie's...Read more

MIAMI -- Attorneys for former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli, who is being detained in Miami on an extradition request to his homeland, filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that asserts his constitutional rights have been violated because his bid for bond was denied.

Martinelli's legal team argued that ...Read more