U.S. officials are proposing increased logging on federal lands across the Pacific Northwest under changes to a sweeping forest management plan that’s been in place for three decades.

Before he comes back for good on Inauguration Day, Donald Trump will return to the White House briefly at the invitation of President Joe Biden.

Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on “Saturday Night Live” as she took a brief break from the battleground states where she's been campaigning.

In the waning days of the presidential campaign, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are courting Native American voters in states where their vote could swing some of the most hotly contested counties in the country.

The rally Republican Donald Trump is planning for Madison Square Garden on Sunday follows a long line of political events at the storied New York City arena.

Georgia voters are once again expected to play a pivotal role in the presidential election on Nov. 5, even as many are focusing on recovering and rebuilding from the devastating effects of Hurricane Helene.

One is the longest-serving woman in congressional history.

The Pentagon says more than 800 military personnel have seen their service records upgraded to honorable discharges after previously being kicked out of the military under its former “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

Former President Bill Clinton is urging voters in rural Georgia to get behind Kamala Harris' campaign for the office he once held.

Some Michigan Democrats are raising concerns about Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential bid in a crucial swing state.

First lady Jill Biden has unveiled a new set of actions to address health inequities faced by women in the United States.

Authorities in Congo say 600 prisoners in the country's main prison have been freed as part of a process aimed at decongesting overcrowded prisons.

Former President Donald Trump and other Republicans are blaming comments made by Democrats that he is a threat to democracy for the unprecedented attacks on him, the latest coming over the weekend.

Donald Trump claimed she would raise viewers’ taxes and accused her of supporting open border policies that had allowed an influx of unvetted and dangerous migrants into the country.

Prince Harry, actor Matt Damon, and World Central Kitchen founder Jose Andres are set to speak at the 2024 Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York on Sept. 23 and 24, the Clinton Foundation announced Thursday.

Former President Bill Clinton is preparing to deliver his 12th address to the Democratic National Convention.

The Democratic National Convention kicks off this week, with delegates and officials descending on Chicago to formally nominate Vice President Kamala Harris as their nominee.

As the American city that has hosted more political conventions than any other, Chicago has pretty much seen it all.

Organizers of next month’s Democratic National Convention are tossing out their script.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans has ruled unconstitutional a method the Federal Communications Commission uses to fund telephone and broadband services for rural and low-income users.

Vice President Kamala Harris must choose a running mate in only a few weeks as Democrats prepare for their convention next month.

Former President Barack Obama has found himself in a vexing position as his old running mate Joe Biden negotiates one of the most sensitive political moments for the Democratic Party in decades.

For many voters in the United States, there's despair in the air after the presidential debate this past week.

Hillary Clinton’s next book is a collection of essays, touching upon everything from marriage to politics to faith, that her publisher is calling her most personal yet.

President Joe Biden is again taunting Donald Trump as a “convicted felon,” saying his likely opponent in November’s election is waging an “all-out assault” on the U_S_ legal system.”.

“Jurassic Park” writer Michael Crichton died from cancer in 2008 but a new novel co-authored by James Patterson called “Eruption” completes a manuscript he started 20 years ago.

David Pryor, a former Arkansas governor and U.S. senator who was one of the state’s most beloved and active political figures, has died at the age of 89.

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee report raising more than $90 million in March and ending the year’s first quarter with $192 million-plus in cash on hand.

Rwanda is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the genocide against its minority Tutsi as new mass graves are still being discovered across the country in a grim reminder of the scale of the killings.

Former President Bill Clinton has a memoir coming out this fall about his years since leaving public office in 2001.

Donald Trump and the Republican Party say they raised more than $65.6 million in March as the former president became the presumptive nominee and installed new party leadership.

Donald Trump has routinely faced protesters as a candidate eight years ago and during his presidency.

In the summer of 2022, days before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some 500 high school girls gathered in Missouri for a weeklong mock government camp in which they elected their own governor and seated an all-female Supreme Court that would rule on their own bodies.

President Joe Biden says his record-setting fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall shows that Democrats are united in ways that Republicans can't match.

Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and some big names from the entertainment world have delivered a rousing New York embrace of President Joe Biden at a campaign fundraiser that hauled in a record-setting $26 million-plus for the incumbent's reelection campaign.

President Joe Biden will share a stage with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton in New York as he raises money for his reelection campaign.

President Joe Biden’s campaign has amassed $155 million in cash on hand for the 2024 election, far exceeding the in-hand total for his Republican opponent, Donald Trump.

Republicans and Israeli officials were quick to express outrage after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer lashed out at Prime Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza and called for Israel to hold new elections.

There are few times in a American presidency that the art of speechwriting is more on display than during a State of the Union.

President Joe Biden avoided criminal charges around his handling of classified documents in part because of his answers during a lengthy interview with the special counsel investigating him.

President Joe Biden is teaming up with predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton next month for a New York fundraiser aimed at powering up donations for his reelection campaign.

The planned auction of dozens of items that belonged to Nelson Mandela has been suspended pending a court application to completely halt it.

The U.S. House Democratic campaign arm added Vallejo to its “Red to Blue” program, which supports promising candidates challenging Republican incumbents.

Nikki Haley has spent her political career trying to navigate Republicans’ traditional party establishment and the increasingly powerful conservative base that gave rise to Donald Trump.

More documents describing Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of teenage girls are being released in New York City.

Kwanzaa isn’t a religious holiday but a celebration of African-American culture. It’s a time for reflection and connection.

Right-wing economist Javier Milei has been sworn in as Argentina’s president and has immediately moved to prepare the public for a painful shock adjustment with drastic public spending cuts.

Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired federal judge and former president Donald Trump’s oldest sister, has died at age 86 at her home in New York.

The Biden administration is urging an appeals court to allow sweeping new restrictions on asylum to stay in place, warning that halting them would be “highly disruptive” at the border.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's recent trip to China was highlighted by a surprise meeting with leader Xi Jinping.

House Republicans repeatedly used the word “brand” at their opening impeachment inquiry as a shorthand to allege that Hunter Biden was selling access to his family’s power and connections when he pursued lucrative business dealings.

The Pentagon is beginning a new effort to contact former service members who may have been forced out of the military and deprived of years of benefits due to policies targeting their sexual orientation, starting with those who served under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”.

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is getting some fundraising help from Broadway's biggest names.

Pope Francis urged all people to do their part to address the world’s problems, especially climate change and the care of children, to open The Clinton Global Initiative Monday in New York in a talk with former President Bill Clinton.

New Hampshire’s primary tradition may be little more than a fairy tale in the 2024 presidential race as the Republican presidential field largely overlooks the state in favor of Iowa.

Ex-President Bill Clinton is eulogizing former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as a groundbreaking Latino politician and unorthodox master diplomat who could coax good things out of dictators and despots.

Hillary Clinton has joined Jill Biden at the White House to honor the recipients of a prestigious arts prize.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to make a rare public appearance at the White House since losing her 2016 bid for the presidency, attending an arts event next week with first lady Jill Biden.

The Clinton Global Initiative 2023 will convene “leaders, innovators and dreamers” – ranging from World Bank President Ajay Banga and The Bahamas’ Prime Minister Philip E.

Clarence Avant, the manager, entrepreneur, facilitator and adviser who helped launch or guide the careers of Quincy Jones, Bill Withers and many others and came to be known as the "Black Godfather" of entertainment and beyond has died at 92.

Oprah Winfrey, Rachel Maddow and Arnold Schwarzenegger will be among those appearing this fall at the 92nd Street Y, as the New York City cultural institution marks its 150th anniversary.

Jill Biden says exercise helps her find “inner strength.”.

For 150 years, the Chautauqua Institution has prided itself as a place that invites open dialogue and freedom of expression.

James Patterson, Suzanne Collins and Margaret Atwood are among thousands of writers endorsing an open letter from the Authors Guild urging AI companies to obtain permission before incorporating copyrighted work into their technologies.

Through history, the Fourth of July has been a day for some presidents to declare their independence from the public.

A judge's ruling that struck down Arkansas' first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for minors is offering hope to opponents of such laws.

Former Rep. Marion Berry, who was known for his blunt rhetoric and his advocacy work for farmers and older residents in eastern Arkansas, has died.

The Biden administration's number two diplomat is retiring after decades of U.S. government service.

Leaders of the U.K., the European Union and two U.S. presidents have urged Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party to restore the mothballed Belfast government and reap the reward of more economic investment.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton says he's optimistic that one of Northern Ireland’s main political parties will soon end a boycott that has kept the regional government on ice for more than a year.

An American architect of Northern Ireland’s historic peace accord has urged its feuding politicians to revive the mothballed Belfast government, as a current political crisis clouded celebration of the peacemaking milestone.

Trump isn’t the only president to be embroiled in a scandal or controversy.

Initial results show two of the more moderate Denver mayoral candidates in the unusually large and divergent field of 16 contestants have pulled far ahead.

Donald Trump isn't the first president, in or out of office, to be in legal trouble.

While he’s far from the only U.S. president to be dogged by legal and ethical scandals, Donald Trump now occupies a unique place in history as the first ever indicted on criminal charges.

Peterson Zah, who guided one of the largest Native American tribes in the U.S. through a politically tumultuous time, has died.

Ghislaine Maxwell says a federal appeals court should reverse her conviction on charges that she joined and enabled the sexual abuse that Jeffrey Epstein committed on scores of teenagers and young women.

Former President Jimmy Carter is garnering accolades and well-wishes across the world since the announcement that the 98-year-old is receiving end-of-life care at home in Georgia.

The White House chief of staff is at the fulcrum of the federal government as gatekeeper to the most powerful leader on Earth.

An estimated 27.3 million people watched President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on television Tuesday night.

President Joe Biden has finished with his State of the Union address in the House chamber.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders painted a dystopian portrait of the country in the Republican rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.

Three decades after Bill Clinton signed into the law the nation’s family and medical leave legislation, he was back at the White House on Thursday.

When Hillary Clinton was running for president in 2016, she and her campaign called the FBI’s scrutiny of her private email server a “security review.”.

The appointment of a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department probes into the discovery of classified documents at the home and former office of President Joe Biden has focused renewed attention on the role such prosecutors have played in modern American history.

One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II.

When President Joe Biden speaks about the “scourge” of gun violence, his go-to answer is to zero in on so-called assault weapons.

When Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she won't re-up as a House leader next year, even her adversaries acknowledged that hers was a remarkable era.

Donald Trump has officially declared himself a candidate for president, but that won’t shield him from the same criminal investigations that confront him as an ordinary citizen.

A federal judge has granted the Biden administration a five-week delay to end far-reaching asylum restrictions, writing in upper-case letters that he was doing so “WITH GREAT RELUCTANCE.”.

Sam Bankman-Fried received numerous plaudits as he rapidly achieved superstar status as the head of cryptocurrency exchange FTX: the savior of crypto, the newest force in Democratic politics and potentially the world’s first trillionaire.

“Here Comes the Bride” will play at the White House very soon.

A custom wristwatch from Cambodian leader Hun Sen at the ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh, a foot-long dagger at the G-20 meetings in Bali, and cricket ice cream and Thai noodles with worm sauce at the APEC talks in Bangkok.

President Joe Biden is declaring that his Democratic Party “had a strong night” in the midterm elections.

President Joe Biden is set to deliver remarks about the midterm election later Wednesday as Democrats showed surprising strength against Republicans in Tuesday's races.

A federal judge has rejected disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes’ bid for a new trial after concluding a key prosecution witness’s recent attempt to contact her wasn’t enough to give award another chance to avoid a potential prison sentence for defrauding investors in her blood-testing company.

Border Democrats in Texas held the line in two key House races.

Clinton traveled to Laredo in the morning to stump for U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and then went to the Rio Grande Valley to boost Michelle Vallejo, who is running for an open seat.

All 50 states are hosting midterm elections that will determine the balance of power in Washington and state capitals across the nation.

President Joe Biden has slammed Republicans up and down ballots across the nation as election deniers who reveled in political violence.