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May 21, 2019
Under U.S. law, unaccompanied immigrant children from non-contiguous countries (i.e. "Carlos continued to receive care at CPC throughout that day," said the CBP official.
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May 21, 2019
The HUD secretary faced a tough hearing before the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday.
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May 21, 2019
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Elizabeth Warren were "sad" and "disappointed" by the much-anticipated "Game of Thrones" finale.
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May 21, 2019
The drumbeat among Democrats to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump got a little louder Tuesday, when former White House counsel Don McGahn failed to appear before the House Judiciary Committee after Trump instructed him to defy a subpoena.
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May 21, 2019
As the former president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards steered the organization through over a decade of controversies and threats to dismantle Roe v. Wade.
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May 21, 2019
A new study found that "secret" Trump voters were twice as common as "secret" voters for Hillary Clinton. In fact, more than half of all secret voters were Trump supporters.
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May 20, 2019
The only Republican so far to call for the president to be impeached fires back at critics.
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May 20, 2019
In the latest in a series of milkshake assaults on British politicians, Nigel Farage, a leader of the Brexit movement to withdraw from the European Union, was doused with a milkshake Monday while campaigning in Newcastle for a seat in the E.U. parliament.
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May 20, 2019
"Game of Thrones," HBO's epic fantasy series based on the novels by George R.R. Martin, aired its final episode on Sunday night. Since debuting in 2011, the show has become one of the cultural touchstones of the internet age. Though its popularity and cultural impact are indisputable, there is debate about where it fits within the list of all-time great TV shows.
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May 20, 2019
The president lashed out at the New York Times after the paper reported that anti-money-laundering specialists at Deutsche Bank flagged multiple transactions involving him and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
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May 19, 2019
"Do you think Elizabeth Warren has a plan to fix my love life?" comedian Ashley Nicole Black tweeted, probably not expecting the response she got from the senator and presidential candidate.
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May 19, 2019
Robert E. Smith addresses the graduates. Billionaire investor Robert E. Smith earned some stunned looks on Sunday during his commencement address at Morehouse College. Bernie King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., applauded the move and noted her father attended the Atlanta college.
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May 19, 2019
Billionaire investor Robert E. Smith used his commencement speech to tell the 2019 graduates students of Morehouse College that he'd pay off their student debt.
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May 19, 2019
Kamyar Samimi is one of 24 people to die in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention since President Donald Trump took office. An internal ICE review of Samimi's death found that there were major deficiencies in his medical care.
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May 19, 2019
President Trump fired back at Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., on Sunday, a day after Amash became the first Republican congressman to call for Trump's impeachment.
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May 19, 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., says his presidential campaign is about much more than beating President Trump.
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May 19, 2019
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said Sunday that he disagrees with the call for President Trump's impeachment issued by Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich.
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May 18, 2019
An asylum seeker from Guatemala displays his ankle monitor and makeshift shoelaces at a shelter for migrants on May 16, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. His shoelaces were not returned by border authorities upon his release. After being released by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the shelter, asylum-seekers are then normally transferred from the shelter to their U.S. sponsors as they await their asylum requests.
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May 17, 2019
There is a long history of stars expressing their views on politics — and an equally long history of public backlash to their comments. The growth of social media and the divisiveness of the current political climate have ratcheted up celebrity activism to a new level.
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May 17, 2019
Moments after going after the Massachusetts senator, the president attacked the media over their use of confidential sources.
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May 17, 2019
Moments after going after the Massachusetts senator, the president attacked the media over their use of confidential sources.
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May 17, 2019
Few have suggested that any of the white guys in the race to would be better suited to serve as vice president. That dubious honor, it seems, has so far been reserved for candidates of color — black women in particular.
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May 17, 2019
The near-total abortion ban passed by the Alabama Legislature and signed into law this week was a major topic of conversation among students at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. A nonscientific sampling of students found that not only had all of them heard about the ban, but most worried about the new law — fearing its effects on classmates, women statewide and their school.
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May 17, 2019
The near-total abortion ban passed by the Alabama Legislature and signed into law this week was a major topic of conversation among students at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. A nonscientific sampling of students found that not only had all of them heard about the ban, but most worried about the new law — fearing its effects on classmates, women statewide and their school.
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May 17, 2019
Sep. Seth Moulton talks to the Yahoo News "Skullduggery" podcast about how he plans to take on President Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
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May 17, 2019
The president on Friday claimed his campaign was "conclusively spied on" as Attorney General William Barr continued to defend his probe of the origins of the Russia investigation.
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May 17, 2019
The president on Friday claimed his campaign was "conclusively spied on" as Attorney General William Barr continued to defend his probe of the origins of the Russia investigation.
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May 17, 2019
The candidate who ran the ad was Todd Rokita, who had steadily risen through the ranks of Indiana's Republican establishment over the past two decades, serving as the secretary of state and, later, in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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May 17, 2019
Electricity has largely been restored to the capital city of Caracas after two nation-wide power outages in March and April. But many other parts of Venezuela now have power for only several hours per day under a rationing plan put in effect by President Nicolas Maduro.
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May 17, 2019
Burton and Hayes of Means TV said they still hope to launch the service early next year, even if the offerings are scaled down from their initial plans. "There's something that's been lost in the last 40 years."
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May 16, 2019
Former Planned Parenthood president and CEO Cecile Richards has a message for politicians cheering the passage of the Alabama Human Life Protection Act: "Women are watching."
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May 16, 2019
Former Planned Parenthood president and CEO Cecile Richards has a message for politicians cheering the passage of the Alabama Human Life Protection Act: "Women are watching."
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May 16, 2019
The changes to the United States immigration system announced by President Trump Thursday amount to a sweeping overhaul of the legal immigration process, intended to prioritize highly-skilled workers over immigrants with family-based ties.
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May 16, 2019
Thursday's report was a reminder of Pruitt's penchant for first-class travel, which was perhaps the most prominent of the myriad scandals and controversies that engulfed him.
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May 16, 2019
The senator from Maine stands by her belief that Kavanaugh will be compelled by court precedent when it comes to abortion rights.
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May 16, 2019
"Abortion bans aren't just about controlling women's bodies," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tweeted. "They're about controlling women's sexuality. Owning women."
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May 16, 2019
President Trump on Thursday weighed in on the latest candidate to jump into the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
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May 16, 2019
President Trump on Thursday weighed in on the latest candidate to jump into the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
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May 16, 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., released a four-point plan on Thursday to combat what she described as "an intense coziness between giant defense corporations and our Department of Defense."
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May 16, 2019
There's a reason we call it a trade war. Wars have casualties. Winning them always comes with a cost, and it's a cost the citizenry has to be willing to bear.
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May 15, 2019
What's happening: Alabama's governor on Wednesday signed into law the nation's strictest abortion legislation - resulting in a near-total ban on the procedure in the state with no exeptions for rape or incest and prison sentences of up to 99 years for doctors who provide abortions. ast week, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill that would ban abortions from the point when doctors can detect cardiac activity.
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May 15, 2019
The abortion ban approved Tuesday night by the Alabama Senate is more than just the most restrictive legislation passed by any state in the 46 years since the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide.
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May 15, 2019
The California senator flipped the script on worries that America isn't ready to elect a woman president.
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May 15, 2019
The Texas senator stresses the need to protect space commerce and exploration.
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May 15, 2019
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz stresses the need to protect space commerce and exploration.
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May 15, 2019
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz stresses the need to protect space commerce and exploration.
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May 15, 2019
Senior FBI officials were concerned then director James Comey would appear to be blackmailing then President-elect Trump - using tactics notoriously associated with J.Edgar Hoover - when he attended a fateful Jan. 6, 2017 meeting where he informed the real estate magnate about allegations he had consorted with prostitutes in Moscow, according to Jim Baker, the bureau's chief counsel at the time.
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May 15, 2019
In the United States, digital criminals using everything from weaponized botnets to ransomware are attacking private industry and the government on a daily basis, increasing the demand for experts with skills in cybersecurity, intelligence and law enforcement.
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May 15, 2019
Sanders also proposes reforming patent laws under which farmers have been sued for growing crops from proprietary seeds.
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May 14, 2019
The Massachusetts senator explained her reasons for refusing an invitation that others seeking the Democratic presidential nomination have accepted.
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May 14, 2019
The ramped-up trade tensions between the U.S. and China have roiled markets in recent days, but President Trump dismissed concerns and predicted victory on Tuesday when he spoke to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before embarking on a trip to Louisiana. Trump began by declaring "we're having probably the greatest economy that we've had anywhere, any time in the history of our country."
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May 14, 2019
California school teachers who conduct sexual education classes are now encouraged to address gender identity and to offer advice for LGBTQ teenagers under new guidelines issued by the state's board of education.
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May 14, 2019
Two university professors retract a paper that claimed the two former Comedy Central hosts may have affected the 2016 presidential outcome.
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May 14, 2019
On "Late Night With Seth Meyers," Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., defended comments she made about the Holocaust to Yahoo News' podcast "Skullduggery."
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May 14, 2019
Speaking at Howard University, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and other proponents of the Green New Deal, affirmed their progressive ideals while striking out at both conservative Republicans and moderate Democrats who have, according to her and other critics, done too little about global warming for too long.
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May 14, 2019
"He's so routinely dismissive of women, the way he talks about women," Fiorina told the Yahoo News show "Through Her Eyes." "And on the other hand, he's put a lot of women in really important jobs." "I think he views women as something to be used," she continued.
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May 14, 2019
"He's so routinely dismissive of women, the way he talks about women," Fiorina told the Yahoo News show "Through Her Eyes." "And on the other hand, he's put a lot of women in really important jobs." "I think he views women as something to be used," she continued.
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May 14, 2019
Charles C. Johnson, a Holocaust denier who has been deemed "one of the country's most notorious Internet trolls," had a surprising and markedly informal exchange with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in 2018.
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May 14, 2019
Charles C. Johnson, a Holocaust denier who has been deemed "one of the country's most notorious Internet trolls," had a surprising and markedly informal exchange with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in 2018.
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May 14, 2019
The unlikely Democratic challenger, a white man with a privileged background, is trying to redefine identity politics to embrace all kinds of minorities — including the one he belongs to.
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May 14, 2019
The ousted White House adviser and nationalist gadfly has turned his guns on China, which he considers the leading geopolitical and economic threat to the U.S.
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May 13, 2019
The White House dismissed criticism from human rights activists and members of Congress concerned that President Trump's meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban represented a stamp of approval for the authoritarian leader.
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May 13, 2019
The White House dismissed criticism from human rights activists and members of Congress concerned that President Trump's meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban represented a stamp of approval for the authoritarian leader.
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May 13, 2019
The Arkansas senator defends Trump's trade war with China with a noteworthy comparison.
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May 13, 2019
U.S. cities with larger populations of undocumented immigrants do not see higher rates of violent and property crime, the study found.
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May 13, 2019
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says Donald Trump Jr. should ignore the subpoena issued to him by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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May 13, 2019
Pregnancy-related deaths are rising in the United States, and according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 60 percent of those deaths are preventable. The U.S is the only developed country in the world in which maternal mortality rates are rising.
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May 13, 2019
President Trump on Monday joined Republicans blasting Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., for comments the Democratic congresswoman made during a recent episode of Yahoo News' podcast "Skullduggery."
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May 13, 2019
The Trump administration's strategy of ratcheting up diplomatic, financial and military pressure on Iran is increasing the likelihood that Tehran will use its proxy forces to strike U.S. targets abroad, according to several former intelligence officials.
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May 12, 2019
Presidential candidate Cory Booker characterized his colleague and 2020 opponent Elizabeth Warren's proposals to break up tech giants as "a Donald Trump thing to say."
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May 12, 2019
George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, lashed out at President Trump Sunday for his view of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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May 12, 2019
George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, lashed out at President Trump Sunday for his view of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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May 11, 2019
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan visited a border city in Texas on Saturday and said he intends to accelerate planning to secure the border and bolster the administration's ability to accomplish that without the Pentagon's continuous help. Shanahan told Congress this past week that there are 4,364 military troops on the border, including active-duty and National Guard. Shanahan also said he has instructed a two-star Army general, Ricky Waddell, to develop a plan soon that will answer this question: "How do we get more badges back to the border?" — a reference to ensuring Homeland Security Department is fully capable of securing the border, its core mission.
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May 11, 2019
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., said she believes President Trump crossed an ethical line on "day one" of his administration. And she's calling for his impeachment.
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May 10, 2019
The Vermont senator takes issue with the former vice president's plan to fight climate change.
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May 10, 2019
The president upgrades his own status in a Friday tweet.
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May 10, 2019
The president upgrades his own status in a Friday tweet.
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May 10, 2019
The television and film industry struck back this week at the state of Georgia, whose governor just signed one of the strictest abortion bans in the nation.
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May 10, 2019
Democratic primary candidates talk gun policy and Biden surges, Harris reboots and many question a potential de Blasio run.
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May 10, 2019
Bernie Sanders may have captured the hearts of young voters in 2016 and be leading them now, but one observer of youth politics thinks that that advantage may evaporate.
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May 09, 2019
Attorney General William Barr's apparent loyalty to the president, some argue, is counter to the intended role of the attorney general and should be disqualifying. Several prominent Democrats have called on Barr to resign. If he refuses, their only other option to remove him is impeachment.
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May 09, 2019
More than 100 days since Patrick Shanahan assumed the role of acting secretary of defense, the White House announced today that President Trump will nominate the former Boeing executive to permanently fill the position.
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May 09, 2019
Already the second-largest outbreak in history, the Ebola epidemic that has killed just over 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo continues grow and threatens to surpass the 2014 outbreak in West Africa that resulted in 11,325 deaths, an official at the Centers for Disease Control said.
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May 09, 2019
He's talking to Iran and...has many meetings and many phone calls and he's telling them what to do.
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May 09, 2019
President Trump on Thursday said he was "very surprised" that the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena for Donald Trump Jr. to answer more questions about his contacts with Russia.
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May 09, 2019
The designation was opposed by U.S. military leaders concerned about possible retaliation against U.S. military personnel in the Middle East.
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May 09, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she agreed with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler who declared that the country is in a "constitutional crisis."
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May 09, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she agreed with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler who declared that the country is in a "constitutional crisis."
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May 09, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has resisted calls from members of her party to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump, but amid a constitutional showdown between House Democrats and the Trump administration, she declared Thursday that President Trump "is almost self-impeaching."
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May 09, 2019
What was it like for Trump to lose more than $1 billion in a decade? Was he perpetually ashen-faced with fear? Or smirking at the thought of outwitting the IRS "for sport," as he said in a Wednesday morning tweet?
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May 09, 2019
This includes the health care industry, which could also be affected by the census citizenship question.
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May 09, 2019
What was it like for Trump to lose more than $1 billion in a decade? Was he perpetually ashen-faced with fear? Or smirking at the thought of outwitting the IRS "for sport," as he said in a Wednesday morning tweet?
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May 09, 2019
If you had asked me 10 or 15 years ago, when I was chronicling the path of Democratic politics for the New York Times Magazine and for a book, I'd have told you Nancy Pelosi was a true ideologue at heart.
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May 08, 2019
The former New Jersey governor says Democrats know that impeaching Trump is "politically stupid."
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May 08, 2019
The House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over an unredacted version of the Mueller report as President Trump exerts executive privilege.
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May 08, 2019
Now it's official: Joe Biden is eating Bernie Sanders' lunch. Except now Biden is entering week two of his campaign — and he still appears to be gaining altitude. On April 25, Sanders was holding steady at 23 percent, on average.
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May 08, 2019
The mayor has been saying his final decision will come this month, but with a slim chance of victory, political observers and local officials are confused about his strategy.
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May 08, 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., introduced the CARE Act, a $100 billion plan to fight the opioid crisis, via blog post on Wednesday.
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May 08, 2019
WASHINGTON—Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) teamed up with Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) on Wednesday to announce the CARE Act, a $100 billion plan to fight the opioid crisis. "The ongoing opioid crisis is about health care. It's about money and power in America - who has it, and who doesn't.
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May 08, 2019
President Trump on Wednesday fired back at the New York Times after the newspaper obtained his tax returns from 1985 to 1994 showing his businesses lost more than $1 billion.
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