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WASHINGTON -- Americans are paying more attention to politics since Donald Trump's election, but many find the experience a stressful one, according to new data from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.

Slightly more than half of those surveyed by Pew said they were paying more attention to politics since Trump's victory; only about one in ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's interview with The New York Times on Wednesday has stirred speculation he may consider firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller for investigating Trump's business dealings as part of the Russia probe.

But Trump can't fire Mueller directly, according to the law that authorizes Mueller's activities. If he tried...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said Wednesday that a lack of English conversational skills on the part of Akie Abe, the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, prompted him to leave his spot next to her at dinner at an international summit and talk with Vladimir Putin instead.

Mrs. Abe "doesn't speak English ... like, not 'Hello,'" Trump told ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recusal from the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in last year's election is "very unfair to the president," The New York Times reported.

"Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Yes, the Russian government asked Rep. Dana Rohrabacher to push back against sanctions on Russians, and he doesn't see what the big deal is.

Rohrabacher, R-Calif., dismissed fresh reports on Wednesday detailing how the Russian government asked him to change his colleagues' opinions about Russian sanctions as a "nothing burger ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The last time foreign farm workers got amnesty to stay in this country, many left the farms for better paying jobs.

So as the agriculture community pushes for a way to get more farm workers into the United States, it's finding not only the political obstacle -- Republican lawmakers are reluctant to do much for undocumented ...Read more

As his party's health care plan imploded Monday night, President Donald Trump could look across the country to the state he seems to disdain the most and see success forged by the very thing he ran against: old-fashioned politics.

California Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative Democrats worked with Republicans to craft a climate change measure ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had a second encounter while at the G-20 summit in Germany earlier this month that wasn't disclosed at the time, a White House official said Tuesday.

The U.S. and Russian presidents had a conversation during a dinner July 7 at the summit in Hamburg after spending more than two hours in a formal ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Republicans are desperate for a big win as the party's inability to score a major victory by the August recess marks one of the few times in four decades a new president has failed to use his honeymoon period to achieve a huge legislative triumph.

While there's plenty of talk at the White House and on Capitol Hill about ways to ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Rarely has a president taken office so focused on undoing his predecessor's works as Donald Trump. Six months in, he has little to show.

Monday brought twin blows. Not only did the Affordable Care Act survive another Republican repeal effort, maintaining President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement, but Trump was forced...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer to obtain derogatory information about Hillary Clinton in June 2016 was attended by a California businessman born in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, according to two people familiar with the meeting.

Irakly "Ike" Kaveladze, a 52-year-old businessman from Huntington Beach, was...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Wall Street and K Street haven't hit the panic button just yet, but lobbyists for financial services and business groups are increasing their pressure on lawmakers to swiftly extend the debt limit and fund the government without drama.

Their main focus is on the debt limit, which the Trump administration has asked Congress to ...Read more