Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) in a new ad released Wednesday pledged to fire Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos within her first 100 days as president—a likely unnecessary move given that DeVos would depart with sitting President Donald Trump.
Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday officially announced the formation of a presidential commission on criminal justice, revitalizing an influential body that in the 1960s fundamentally altered the American criminal justice system.
The Environmental Protection Agency is working to clear a backlog of anti-air pollution plans that the Obama administration failed to process within federally required deadlines.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday said the United States has no intention to harm Persian culture—unlike the regime of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) compared the U.S. killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani to Iran hypothetically assassinating the U.S. Secretary of Defense on Friday.
The Trump administration will continue to expose and sanction Iranian regime leaders found guilty of human rights abuses, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday, a message that comes as protesters across Iran take to the streets to protest the ruling regime.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday that the United States had reversed a Carter administration-era State Department legal opinion calling Israeli settlements in the West Bank "inconsistent with international law." The decision, apparently long in the works, comes days after a ruling by an E.U. court requiring Israeli products made in disputed territories to carry special labels—a decision widely seen as creating a legal pretext for the E.U.'s eventual adoption of boycotts on Israeli goods.
Singer Brandi Carlile joined two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in dropping out of Fortune’s "Most Powerful Women Summit" because former DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is set to speak.
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke on Sunday repeated his comparison of the Trump administration to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Thursday he had reached a deal with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for a ceasefire in northern Syria to end an eight-day-old Turkish offensive against Kurdish-led forces.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) in a new ad released Wednesday pledged to fire Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos within her first 100 days as president—a likely unnecessary move given that DeVos would depart with sitting President Donald Trump. 
