Full video: Daunasia Yancey and Julius Jones, organizers for Black Lives Matter, confront Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton on issues of racial equality after a campaign event in Keene, New ...

It's called the Gang of Eight. On matters of highly sensitive intelligence, eight congressional leaders -- the top two members from each chamber and the Intelligence Committees -- are supposed to ...

As Democratic senators weigh what to do, if anything, about protecting voting rights at the federal level, important legislative questions hang over head. Does the party have the votes to properly ...

Pruitt might point to the Harvey mine as evidence of coal mining's bright future. But a closer look at the Bailey complex shows it's hardly a shining example of profitable, environmentally friendly ...

For nearly three years, Donald Trump has ignored his own country's intelligence community and believed that Ukraine intervened in the U.S. elections in 2016 in the hopes of undermining his candidacy.

Dina Powell, a Goldman Sachs partner with deep ties to both Republicans and Democrats in Washington, is leaving the bank to join the Trump administration in a senior role that will focus on ...

After the 2012 elections, it was tempting to think Republicans would be a little more cautious about economic elitism and callous indifference towards those struggling to get by. But in 2014, many GOP ...

Within hours of his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump issued roughly 1,500 pardons and commuted the sentences of 14 Jan. 6 criminals — including violent felons who were in prison for assaulting ...

At last year's Republican National Convention, retired Gen. Michael Flynn, a prominent member of Donald Trump's inner circle, delivered a speech in which he chanted, "Lock her up!" in reference to ...

Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida made a bold move today, unveiling a 31-page blueprint of the kind of ideas he wants his party to pursue when in it's in the majority. Much of the document reads ...

When Donald Trump first announced via Twitter yesterday that Defense Secretary James Mattis would "retire" in a couple of months, the news hardly came out of the blue. The two disagreed on a great ...

Rachel Maddow tells the story of the wreck of Shell oil's Kulluk rig and a set of violations that resulted in felony offenses and millions in fines, but now Shell is trying again, and activists are ...