WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump ousted Brad Parscale as manager of his campaign, replacing him with Bill Stepien as the president seeks to reverse a decline in the polls with less than four months before the November election.

Stepien, who formerly served as White House political director, was deputy to Parscale, the campaign manager since...Read more

CHICAGO -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday vaguely referenced an upcoming announcement on how his administration intends to deal with crime in Democrat-led cities, again citing Chicago's violence as a problem he will tackle.

In a briefing with reporters about his ongoing efforts to deal with the MS-13 gang, Trump said he would have more to ...Read more

WASHINGTON --The White House said Wednesday that it has "zero concerns" that Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt -- who announced he had tested positive for the coronavirus -- interacted with President Donald Trump at a June campaign rally.

Trump is tested every day, a White House official told McClatchy.

"That would be the longest incubation period in ...Read more

TOPEKA, Kan. -- Prosecutors allege Kansas Congressman Steve Watkins lied to a Shawnee County Sheriff's detective on Feb. 10, according to court documents that reveal fresh details about the illegal voting case against him.

A criminal complaint accuses Watkins of providing the detective, Stephanie Dicken, information "knowing that such ...Read more

President Donald Trump has opened a new attack on Democrat Joe Biden, suggesting that his policies will endanger Americans' lives.

The Trump campaign released a new television ad on Wednesday, with a phone ringing at a presumably abandoned police desk, followed by images of burning buildings, with the narrator saying that "the radical left wing...Read more

The Trump administration is distancing itself from a senior adviser's critique of Anthony Fauci, the immunologist who has delivered warnings about the coronavirus's resurgence as the president pushes to reopen.

Peter Navarro, the White House's director for the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, wrote an op-ed published in USA Today, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The former White House physician under President Donald Trump as well as three other Republicans are likely heading to Congress next year after winning primary runoffs in ruby-red districts Tuesday.

The GOP contests were the main events in two districts in Texas and two in Alabama, where Republican retirements opened up House ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he had signed legislation that establishes a regime for gradually sanctioning foreign banks if they continue to indirectly support Chinese officials' crackdown on Hong Kong.

In a Rose Garden news conference, the president also announced he had signed an executive order that would revoke the...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- President Donald Trump called the decision by Los Angeles schools to not reopen campuses next month a "mistake" during a CBS News interview on Tuesday.

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner announced Monday that the nation's second-largest school system will continue with online learning until further ...Read more

When President Donald Trump wore a face mask in public for the first time last weekend, his supporters were exultant.

"Goodnight, Joe Biden," tweeted Boris Epshteyn, a campaign adviser. "Game on," declared Sebastian Gorka, an official who recently rejoined the administration. Campaign manager Brad Parscale simply tweeted a photo of the masked ...Read more

Attorney Mondaire Jones is poised to become the first openly gay Black man in Congress after winning a crowded Democratic primary in New York's 17th District. But he may share that distinction with another New York Democrat whose primary has yet to be called.

Jones, who worked in former President Barack Obama's Justice Department, had the ...Read more

The New York judge who ruled it was too late to block a tell-all memoir by President Donald Trump's niece, Mary Trump, also signaled that the controversial airing of "family laundry" probably doesn't violate a 2001 confidentiality agreement at the center of the case.

On Monday, state Supreme Court Justice Hal Greenwald in Poughkeepsie denied a ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump swept to power by championing the hardships of forgotten men and women, but his reelection bid has so far centered on the plight of just one person: himself.

Trump is struggling to respond to a resurgent pandemic, an economic downturn and nationwide protests for racial justice. The coronavirus has weakened ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Joe Biden plans to unveil a proposal for rebuilding the economy that focuses heavily on restoring American leadership in the fight against global warming, directing government recovery efforts toward expanding clean energy and rapidly reversing the Trump administration's abandonment of climate efforts.

In a speech Tuesday in ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- While Julian Castro's run for president may have ended earlier this year, his work as a key, multifaceted purveyor of progressive politics in the 2020 election has only started gaining steam.

In his time on the primaries debate stage, Castro unapologetically centered conversations about immigration, policing, climate justice, and ...Read more