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Vance was once a fierce Trump antagonist, but he has made a U-turn to establish himself as one of the billionaire’s most ardent defenders
The two sides squared off in fiery exchanges that circled around the procedures for the trial and gave the Democrats an opportunity to spell out their arguments for Trump’s guilt…
Expect bare-knuckle political sparring when 2020 frontrunner Joe Biden battles his Democratic rivals this week
The biggest American political debate since the 2016 presidential campaign is occurring over two nights in Miami
A livid Trump abruptly shut down a White House meeting with Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer
Biden, a veteran Democrat who spent 36 year in the US Senate, boasts the thickest resume of any candidate seeking to deny Trump a second term
The former vice president jumped into a crowded Democratic field as an immediate frontrunner in the battle to oust President Donald Trump in 2020
Donald Trump, the oldest person ever elected US president, will be 74 on Inauguration Day 2021
Trump’s February 15 emergency declaration gives him access to billions of dollars to construct his wall on the Mexican border
President Trump backed down late on Wednesday in a spat with Democrats over his State of the Union address
Keeping Donald Trump in check will be among the California Democrat’s top challenges as she presides over the House of Representatives
Fears of a shutdown — which could send thousands of federal employees home without pay just before Christmas — helped send US stocks tumbling
Nancy Pelosi is seeking to reclaim the gavel that she first wielded a dozen years ago when she became the first female speaker of the House
The runoff in the Republican stronghold between Hyde-Smith and Espy came under national scrutiny when unsettling remarks by the senator
The US midterm election has been a tug of war over key issues, but none has had a more dramatic impact on voters than Donald Trump
Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a replacement for retiring justice Anthony Kennedy was controversial from the start
If he wins confirmation, Kavanaugh will seal a conservative majority on the nine-seat high court for years to come
Pollsters rate the Ohio race between Republican state senator Troy Balderson and Democratic lawyer Danny O’Connor as a toss-up
Facebook shut down 32 fake pages and accounts involved in an apparent ‘coordinated’ effort to stoke hot-button issues ahead of midterm US elections
The court ruling handed a major victory to Trump in a tortuous legal battle over the Republican leader’s efforts to restrict immigration
