WASHINGTON -- Congressional Democrats and Republicans reached a deal Wednesday on a stopgap spending bill to avert a U.S. government shutdown on Oct. 1, even as the threat of a closure later in the year continues to build.

The short-term measure would keep the government open through Nov. 21 while lawmakers work out details for $1.3 trillion in...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The night of the 2016 presidential election, Robert C. O'Brien, a fixture of Republican presidential campaigns for more than a dozen years, was in London, glued to television screens with American visitors and Brits alike.

"I'm not sure anybody out there predicted a Trump win," he said several days later. "I certainly didn't."

O'...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Corey Lewandowski's mocking and defiant performance during more than five hours before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday raised new questions about whether Democrats can revive investigations they say could lead to the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

The Democrats returned from their summer break determined to ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- With the White House and Congress paralyzed over how -- or even whether -- to act on intelligence agency warnings about foreign interference in U.S. elections, Maryland opted to take matters into its own hands.

The state adopted transparency rules for political advertising on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere online. The pioneering ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- How to provide public information on payments made under President Donald Trump's trade mitigation assistance program was delaying release of a stopgap funding bill Wednesday, though negotiators said they thought the talks were nearing conclusion.

"We're hoping that the (continuing resolution) will be filed today," House Majority ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- President Donald Trump's tour of California will take him to San Diego on Wednesday, with a visit to the border and a review of a prototype of his much-debated wall.

Trump is set to tour the Otay Mesa border area in the afternoon after a fundraiser in San Diego before leaving the state. He visited the border wall prototypes last ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- If Washington fails to enact legislation to strengthen federal firearms background checks or otherwise deal with mass shootings, President Donald Trump suggests the blame will fall on a former House Democrat who wants his job.

With talks toward a measure that could pass a Democratic-controlled House and a GOP-run Senate showing no...Read more

NEW YORK -- The tight Israeli election -- and the weeks of debate it may fuel over the formation of a ruling coalition -- has put President Donald Trump on the brink of losing one of his closest foreign allies.

Since taking office in January 2017, Trump has given Netanyahu the type of political gifts most leaders could only dream of, from his ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Robert O'Brien, the special envoy for hostage affairs at the State Department, will be his next national security adviser.

O'Brien will be the fourth person to serve in the position under Trump. He replaces John Bolton, the hard-liner who held the position for more than a year before...Read more

WASHINGTON -- One of the most arresting images of Donald Trump's inaugural address in 2017 was a grim portrait of urban America, riddled by poverty, gangs, drugs and other blight.

"Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation," he said. "This ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- General Motors and the UAW said Tuesday that the Trump administration is playing no role that they know of in negotiations to settle a strike that began at midnight Sunday despite a media report to the contrary.

The Trump administration also denied the report posted by Politico on Tuesday afternoon, with Deputy Press Secretary ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump, who often touts the size of crowds at his events and knocks those of his foes, on Tuesday dismissed an audience Sen. Elizabeth Warren drew the night before in New York City.

Warren spoke in front of the iconic arch in the Big Apple's Washington Square Park before an audience numbering in the "thousands," ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, quickly clashed on Tuesday with Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee who are considering whether to impeach the president over allegations that he obstructed justice by trying to limit the investigation into Russia's election interference.

"The American ...Read more