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The Trump administration will cap refugee admissions at the lowest levels since the refugee resettlement program began, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday. It’s the second year in a row the administration has set the cap at a record low.
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President Donald Trump will travel Wednesday to areas affected by Hurricane Florence in North Carolina and South Carolina, sources tell CNN.

In an unsigned op-ed Tuesday morning, The Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote this about the planned Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on sexual assault allegations made by California professor Christine Blasey Ford against Supreme Court nominee…

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley says he has yet to hear back from Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of committing sexual and physical assault while they were both in high school.

China is getting ready to fire back at the United States after President Donald Trump ramped up the trade war with his biggest wave of tariffs yet.

A US Navy sailor was killed aboard the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier on Monday afternoon, according to a statement from the Navy. The sailor was killed in an accident on the flight deck and the incident is currently under investigation.

Two of the day’s big news stories collided Monday night on the red carpet at the Emmy Awards, where one attendee debuted a “Stop Kavanuagh” message written on her arm, referring to the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme court and the sexual a…

President Donald Trump is ordering the declassification of various documents and text messages that both the House Intelligence and House Oversight committees have requested.

It will be a public reckoning of a woman’s courage, a man’s character and the capacity of Washington’s leaders to show that some things matter more than politics.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who has come under sharp scrutiny for her handling of the sexual assault accusations against Brett Kavanaugh, said Monday that she had privately held on to a letter detailing the allegations because the ac…

President Donald Trump is expected to announce new tariffs on China after markets close on Monday.

As senators grappled with how to handle the explosive allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Sen. Dianne Feinstein found herself in the center of the political storm.

For Republicans, this was supposed to be a done deal. Now, because of a decades-old allegation of sexual assault, Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination is very much in flux.

After the bus carrying Democratic gubernatorial nominee Gavin Newsom had pulled away, and the sound system was disassembled and the folding chairs collected, dozens of people remained behind following a Democratic rally under brilliant sunshine at a sc…

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is ready to be sentenced, prosecutors and his defense team told a federal judge Monday. Flynn’s sentencing had been delayed four times since he pleaded guilty to lying to investigators last December.

President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, is being accused of sexually and physically assaulting a 15-year-old girl at a party during his high school years.

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday called for a delay on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and in doing so injected himself into a debate that has unmistakable echoes with an episode in his own history.

It was not immediately clear how Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation process would further unfold as he arrived at the White House just after 10 a.m. on Monday, now facing a public allegation of sexual assault.

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is not opposed to sharing his point of view, answering more questions or providing more information about a recent allegation of physical and sexual assault, whether it be through congressional committee staff inte…

In July 1991, more than half of Americans — 52% — said they would like to see the Senate vote in favor of Clarence Thomas serving on the Supreme Court, with 17% who said they would not want them to vote in favor, according to a Gallup/CNN poll.

As Republicans and Democrats reckoned Monday with new sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, both parties began to process how the rapidly shifting politics of the nomination fight might upend the midterm elections le…

If you’ve ever paid even the smallest bit of attention, you know the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid.”

There are 35 Senate seats on the ballot across the country this fall. But if you are trying to figure out whether Democrats have any plausible chance at winning back the majority, there’s one race that should tell you all you need to know: the Tennesse…

Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former New York City mayor, has been chatting to the New York Times about a run for president in 2020.

The US Air Force needs to add more bombers, fighters, tankers and other front-line units by 2030 to confront rising threats from China and Russia, senior officials said Monday, outlining a proposal for what the service will need to fight and win future…

The future of Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination is in question after a woman went public over the weekend with accusations that the 53-year-old federal judge physically and sexually assaulted her when the two were in high school.

President Donald Trump on Monday praised Judge Brett Kavanaugh as “one of the finest people I have ever known” in his first public comments since the Supreme Court nominee was publicly accused of sexual assault, and he criticized Democrats for not rele…

The decision by Christine Blasey Ford to reveal her identity, days after reports that an anonymous woman had alleged she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanuagh in high school, is a total game-changer, not just for Kavanaugh’s c…

Establishing President Donald Trump’s sought-after Space Force could cost $12.9 billion over its first five years, according to an Air Force document obtained by CNN.