As his conservation swan song, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., has staunchly pushed for legislation to address the more than $12 billion in deferred maintenance at national parks in what will likely be his final major piece of legislation to protect the outdoors before he retires from public office in 2020.

A State Department official told impeachment investigators Friday that he overheard President Donald Trump talking with a U.S. ambassador about "investigations" in Ukraine, according to people familiar with the testimony.

He was proud of his reputation as a practitioner of political dirty tricks and frequently boasted about the extent of his contacts and the depth of his insider information.

As he watched Kamala Harris speak recently at a historic hotel in northern Iowa, Jim Davis told the California senator she reminded him of Jimmy Carter, the little-known Georgia governor whose success in the 1976 caucuses helped vault him to the White House.

The box of white tissues stood by, two seats to Maria Yovanovitch's right, as she told the world about being "shocked, appalled, devastated" that the president had badmouthed her after firing her as ambassador to Ukraine.

New rules from the Trump administration on Friday would require insurers and hospitals to disclose upfront the actual prices for common tests and procedures to promote competition and push down costs.

Ten Democratic presidential candidates have qualified for next Wednesday's debate in Georgia, giving voters a smaller lineup on stage to consider even as the party's overall field expands.

President Donald Trump said the impeachment probe has been "very hard" on his family, even as he tried to flex his political muscle to flip the governor's mansion in deep-red Louisiana.

A smoke-filled stench fills a refugee camp just a short walk from the U.S.-Mexico border, rising from ever-burning fires and piles of human waste.

An ambassador, her firing and a pair of fixers.

It's been easy for majority Democrats to keep Republicans from shifting the focus of the House impeachment hearings. Yet GOP leverage to do just that will grow should the battle reach the Republican-run Senate.

Deval Patrick launched what he acknowledged to be a "Hail Mary" bid on Thursday for the Democratic presidential nomination, testing whether voters sifting through an already crowded field are open to hearing from new candidates less than three months before the primary voting officially begins.

House Democrats are refining part of their impeachment case against the president to a simple allegation: Bribery.

Several more witnesses scheduled to testify in the House impeachment hearings over the next week are expected to say they too worried about President Donald Trump's push for Ukraine to investigate Democrats as the U.S. withheld military aid from the country.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Wednesday that he is open to the possibility of altering American military activities in South Korea if it would help advance a diplomatic deal with North Korea to eliminate its nuclear program.

Attorney General William Barr announced a new initiative Wednesday that would better enforce the U.S. gun background check system, coordinate state and federal gun cases and ensure prosecutors quickly update databases to show when a defendant can't possess a firearm because of mental health issues.

The federal government, which ended the 2019 budget year with its largest deficit in seven years, began the new budget year with a deficit in October that was 33.8% bigger than a year ago as spending hit a record.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the Fed is likely to keep its benchmark short-term interest rate unchanged in the coming months, unless the economy shows signs of worsening.

For the first time, the Democrats' case for President Donald Trump's impeachment streamed from Americans' TVs Wednesday, including a new contention that he was overheard asking about political "investigations" that he demanded from Ukraine in trade for military aid.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Donald Trump will meet as relations between the two NATO allies are at their lowest point in decades, with Turkey rebuffing the U.S. and turning toward Russia on security issues and Ankara facing a Washington backlash over attacks on Kurdish civilians during its incursion into Syria last month.

A top House lawmaker announced Tuesday that Congress will pass a governmentwide temporary spending bill to keep the government running through Dec. 20, forestalling a government shutdown as the House turns its focus to impeachment hearings.

For only the fourth time in U.S. history, the House of Representatives has started a presidential impeachment inquiry.

Sharply at odds with liberal justices, the Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed ready Tuesday to allow the Trump administration to abolish protections that permit 660,000 immigrants to work in the U.S., free from the threat of deportation.