Less than a week after Facebook gave details about Libra, two Congressional committees set July dates for hearings about the social networking giant's cryptocurrency plans.

Late Monday, Rep. Maxine Waters, chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, said she would hold a hearing July 17 on Libra. Waters, D-Calif., called for hearings ...Read more

Endeavor CEO and Hollywood uber agent Ari Emanuel was the role model for fictional super-agent Ari Gold on HBO's "Entourage." As it turns out, he was also vetted for an unspecified role in the Trump administration during the transition in November 2016.

The disclosure came as Emanuel's vetting dossier was revealed as part of a trove of nearly ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court will delve into how much power members of Congress wield when they insert riders on appropriations bills, in a trio of cases that deals with $12 billion in payments to insurers related to the 2010 health care law's exchanges.

The justices agreed Monday to decide whether lawmakers can essentially repeal a previous...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Los Angeles clothing maker had a free-speech right to win trademark protection for his FUCT brand.

The court said the government could not reject a trademark claim because it viewed the words or messages as "scandalous."

"The most fundamental principle of free speech law is that the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday struck down part of a 1980s-era crime law that adds longer prison terms for offenders who carried a gun during a "crime of violence," with Justice Neil M. Gorsuch speaking for the court and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh in dissent.

The court by a 5-4 vote ruled for two Dallas men who were convicted of ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bernie Sanders will introduce legislation Monday to zero out student debt for millions of borrowers.

The proposal -- the College For All Act -- would relieve the debt of all borrowers and would be paid for by a series of taxes on Wall Street, The Associated Press reported.

The Vermont senator's bill follows a signature ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said that his biggest mistake was naming former Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions to be his first attorney general.

"I would say if I had one do-over, it would be, I would not have appointed Jeff Sessions to be attorney general," Trump said in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" broadcast on Sunday. "That was ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump put off for two weeks the start of a planned nationwide roundup of undocumented immigrants, tempering a vow made earlier Saturday to have them "removed from the country." He said he was acting "at the request of Democrats."

The delay will give time "to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- With so many candidates onstage, the Democratic presidential debates risk becoming a stilted, parallel-play affair, with candidates trying to squeeze scripted messages into tiny scraps of airtime.

But the prospects of an unruly political feeding frenzy, particularly on the second night of the two-day extravaganza, have soared as ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court's conservative majority gave a major boost to property rights Friday, ruling that developers and land owners may go directly to federal court and seek compensation for a "taking" of their property.

The 5-4 decision overturned a 1985 precedent that said property owners may not sue in federal court if their ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Iran's military got a glimpse of how President Donald Trump would attack their country despite his years-old pledge never to "telegraph" U.S. military operations to an enemy.

"My administration will not telegraph exact military plans to the enemy," then-candidate Donald Trump said on Aug. 15, 2016 -- less than three months before ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of senators is speaking out against a pay raise for lawmakers.

The letter, co-signed by Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema and Republicans Rick Scott of Florida and Mike Braun of Indiana, urges Legislative Branch appropriators to include language in their fiscal 2020 bill to extend the lawmaker pay freeze for ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's last-minute decision to cancel a planned military strike on Iran has exposed a deep-running rift in the Republican Party between foreign policy hawks and those hewing to the president's "America First" vow to withdraw from foreign wars.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican and an Air Force pilot, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the murder conviction of an African American man from Mississippi who had been tried six times by nearly all-white juries.

The justices, by a 7-2 vote, said the prosecutor had wrongly excluded potential black jurors because of their race.

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh speaking for the court, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- As Democratic presidential hopefuls prepare to descend on his hometown of Miami for their first 2020 primary debate, GOP Sen. Marco Rubio has a little candid advice.

"If one of your opponents attacks you, don't repeat the same answer three times," Rubio quipped. "It doesn't go well."

Rubio was referring to one of the more ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Returning to Capitol Hill after a meeting at the White House about the shooting down of an American drone, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer increased the pressure for a floor vote to make clear that authorization would be needed for military action against Iran.

The New York Democrat highlighted an amendment that has been...Read more