National Politics

At his confirmation hearing nearly two years ago, Attorney General William Barr boasted that there was an advantage to putting him in charge of the Justice Department — he could afford not to care about the consequences of his decisions. Mostly retired and 68 years old at the time, Barr’s pitch to senators in January

Sen. Kamala Harris broke barriers as America’s first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president-elect. But after her exit in January to join the Biden administration, there will be no Black women in the Senate. Harris’s departure left lawmakers and advocates urging California Gov. Gavin Newsom to choose a Black woman to replace her due to a lack of

The Trump administration is considering granting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman legal immunity from a federal lawsuit alleging that he ordered an assassination squad to kill a former top Saudi intelligence official who shared information with the US, according to sources familiar with the situation. Saad Aljabri alleges in his lawsuit in DC District

President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team has pushed back against Twitter’s decision to not allow the millions of followers of the White House Twitter accounts to be automatically retained when the accounts are handed over to the new administration. When President Donald Trump took office in 2017, his administration inherited the millions of followers of each

Joe Biden’s transition team late Tuesday announced Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona as the President-elect’s nominee for education secretary. If confirmed by the Senate, Cardona would play a key role in reopening schools across the country that have been forced online amid the coronavirus pandemic. CNN was first to report that Cardona would be nominated

President Donald Trump may not be willing to accept his term is ending, but as the clock ticks down on his time in office, hundreds of his allies — including some of his closest business associates and many high-profile criminals — are ramping up their efforts to squeeze out the final ounces of his presidential

The tight January political calendar means Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue won’t be in office when Congress meets for a joint session on the Electoral College on January 6, regardless of the results of the Senate runoff the day before. Sydney Butler, chief of staff to the secretary of the Senate — who oversees the

Televangelist Pat Robertson, a prominent conservative backer of Donald Trump, said Monday that the President is living in an “alternate reality” and should “move on” from his 2020 election loss. “With all his talent, and the ability to raise money and draw large crowds, the President still lives in an alternate reality,” Robertson said Monday

President-elect Joe Biden has been moving swiftly to fill out much of his Cabinet. Whether the Senate will do the same is another question. Biden faces the tricky task of navigating a narrowly divided Senate with competing factions within his own party, calls by conservative senators to bring the nomination process to a slow grind

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Americans to steel themselves for dark days ahead battling the coronavirus pandemic. He lambasted the Trump administration for the recent massive cyberattack on US federal agencies, and President Donald Trump for downplaying the attack. Biden also said Trump’s team has not been fully cooperating with his transition team and

Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, has filed a motion to dismiss the campaign finance charges against him, arguing he has been selectively prosecuted and blocked from providing information to lawmakers seeking to impeach President Trump. In a court filing Tuesday, Parnas’s attorney alleges New York federal prosecutors targeted their investigation of Parnas

President Donald Trump spent years limiting the number of refugees coming to the United States. President-elect Joe Biden, meanwhile, has pledged to set the annual refugee admissions cap at 125,000. But first, his team will have to contend with the damage left behind. The refugee cap, which dictates how many refugees may be admitted to