The U.S. Supreme Court rejected death row inmate Rodney Reed's appeal Monday, but Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote separately to urge Texas courts to conduct a "full and fair" examination of evidence that raises questions about his guilt.

"In my view, there is no escaping the pall of uncertainty over Reed's conviction. Nor is there any denying the...Read more

NEW YORK -- As U.S. stocks tumbled on Monday, hit by mounting coronavirus fears, analysts also flagged the possibility that investors haven't been taking Bernie Sanders seriously enough, after the Vermont senator's surprisingly broad support in the Nevada caucus Saturday.

Sectors with exposure to the progressive candidate, including managed ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Joe Biden unveiled a new $640 billion housing plan on Monday that includes certain homeowner and renter protections already in place in California.

While he won't cap annual rent increases, which California lawmakers did last year, he supports a national Bill of Rights similar to the California Homeowner Bill of Rights.

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WASHINGTON -- The highest-ranking African-American in Congress warned that if Bernie Sanders is the 2020 Democratic nominee the party could lose many of the moderate seats they won to retake the House in 2018.

"It's going to be tough to hold on to these jobs if you have to make the case for a self-proclaimed democratic socialist," House ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Trump's national security advisor, in an exchange that touched on a perennial sore point for the president, said Sunday he had no knowledge of intelligence agency warnings that Russia is trying once again to help Trump by interfering in the 2020 campaign.

Another senior White House aide, meanwhile, insisted that last ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Bernie Sanders said he would meet with adversaries, including North Korea's Kim Jong Un, but that he would do so better prepared than President Donald Trump.

"Meeting with people who are antagonistic is, to me, not a bad thing to do," the Democratic presidential candidate said in an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" that was to ...Read more

SAN ANTONIO -- It was the high point to date of his now soaring presidential campaign, and Bernie Sanders, looking ahead to Super Tuesday March 3, shared his Nevada victory with a diverse and ecstatic Saturday night crowd of some 4,000 at Cowboys Dancehall in Northeast San Antonio.

"Based on what I have seen today in Texas, we were in El Paso, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump offered tepid support for Mick Mulvaney, days after the acting White House chief of staff made candid comments in the U.K. that broke with elements of the administration's policies.

"Yeah, he's here now, sure, no problem," Trump told reporters outside the White House as he prepared to depart for India, when ...Read more

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Former Vice President Joe Biden, leaving Las Vegas behind, is placing all his chips on South Carolina as his best -- and perhaps last -- chance to reverse a string of losses in early-voting states and mount a serious challenge to Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination.

As the Democratic contest moves here, the ...Read more

SEATTLE -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, despite a disappointing showing in another early caucus on Saturday, promised a crowd of thousands in Seattle that she would continue to fight for "big, structural change." "I wasn't born a politician, but I was born a fighter and these times call for a fight," Warren told an overflow crowd at Seattle Center, ...Read more

When President Trump ticks off his accomplishments since taking office, he frequently mentions his aggressive makeover of a key sector of the federal judiciary -- the circuit courts of appeal, where he has appointed 51 judges to lifetime jobs in three years.

In few places has the effect been felt more powerfully than in the sprawling 9th ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is returning to Washington after a western swing that will provide plenty of material for campaign ads and fundraising blasts for down-ballot races.

Republican Sens. Martha McSally of Arizona and Cory Gardner of Colorado had already ensured they would be tied to the president when they voted to acquit him on...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The FBI would no longer be able to purge incomplete gun background checks from its systems if legislation by Rep. Jimmy Panetta becomes law.

The California Democrat introduced the bill Friday in response to a CQ Roll Call report that revealed the bureau purges hundreds of thousands of background checks each year -- a practice that...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- On the eve of the Nevada caucuses, Bernie Sanders took a detour to California to strengthen his support in a state that is crucial to his path to the Democratic presidential nomination.

Polls show the Vermont senator with a solid lead over his rivals in California's March 3 primary. But at a campaign stop in Santa Ana, he ...Read more

A Hobart, Ind., pair have been charged with intimidation and criminal recklessness after being accused of driving a set of twins off the road in July for having pro-Trump flags on their bikes.

Kyren G. Perry-Jones, 23, and Cailyn M. Smith, 18, have each been charged with two counts of intimidation and criminal recklessness, both felony charges,...Read more