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Jan 18, 2020
The author, who has lived in a New York homeless shelter since May, reflects on ways to make life safer for those it serves.
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Jan 17, 2020
Polling has shown a relatively tight four-way race at the top, and a new method of reporting results could give multiple campaigns the ability to claim a win.
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Jan 17, 2020
Polling has shown a relatively tight four-way race at the top and a new method of reporting results could give multiple campaigns the ability to claim a win.
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Jan 17, 2020
The legal team representing President Trump in his Senate impeachment trial will include some familiar faces, especially for regular viewers of Fox News.
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Jan 16, 2020
Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas said he was giving media interviews about his role in President Trump's attempts convince Ukrainian officials to announce an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden because he wanted to protect himself from Attorney General William Barr.
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Jan 16, 2020
Warren's shift from defense to offense has done little to quell tensions on the left — tensions that grew so acute by Thursday that a coalition of dozens of leading progressive groups felt compelled to call for a truce.
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Jan 16, 2020
Warren's shift from defense to offense has done little to quell tensions on the left — tensions that grew so acute by Thursday that a coalition of dozens of leading progressive groups felt compelled to call for a truce.
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Jan 16, 2020
President Trump and one of his top allies in Congress have taken a curious interest in Bernie Sanders in recent days.
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Jan 16, 2020
A recent push to eliminate cash bail for people suspected of crimes has received intense pushback by those who say the reforms let dangerous criminals go free. Is ending cash bail the right choice?
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Jan 16, 2020
The final procedural requirements for the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump were met on Thursday afternoon when Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was sworn in by Senate president pro tem Chuck Grassley. Roberts, who will preside over the impeachment trial, then swore in all 100 sitting senators. The two swearings-in come 114 days after House Democrats announced a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump's alleged efforts to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into announcing investigations that could influence American politics in the 2020 election.
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Jan 16, 2020
Among the many revelations in Lev Parnas's spate of recent interviews was his claim that Vice President Pence was "in the loop" regarding President Trump's plan to withhold U.S. military aid to Ukraine unless its government publicly announced an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Jan 16, 2020
President Trump had no authority to withhold some $250 million in military aid to Ukraine that had been appropriated by Congress, the Government Accountability Office found in a report released Thursday morning.
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Jan 16, 2020
With preparations for the Senate impeachment trial underway, there are still several days before next week's opening arguments, leaving a vacuum Republicans and Democrats will fill with debate over whether witnesses will be allowed to testify.
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Jan 16, 2020
President Trump's most effective path forward, not only to prevail in the impeachment proceedings but to end this ordeal and create a strong position from which to govern, is to follow the Clinton model rather than the Nixon path.
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Jan 16, 2020
A number of progressive groups pushed to calm the tensions between the campaigns of the two presidential hopefuls.
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Jan 16, 2020
For at least two decades, sitting presidents have challenged the idea that the three branches of government are coequal, and that while each branch has different powers, no branch is more powerful than any other.
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Jan 15, 2020
Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg says women who are debating whether or not to support him should "just look at the record."
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Jan 15, 2020
Lev Parnas, a key player in President Trump's efforts to obtain a Ukrainian investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, gave a bombshell interview to MSNBC Wednesday that undercut the president's defense just hours before the Senate was scheduled to begin his impeachment trial.
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Jan 15, 2020
House Democrats delivered two articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate on Wednesday.
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Jan 15, 2020
A rough guide for what to expect in the coming days and weeks.
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Jan 15, 2020
According to Democratic National Committee guidelines, the party's next presidential nominee will be chosen over the next several months by tens of millions of primary voters and caucus-goers in every U.S. state and territory. As a rule, Republicans don't get a vote. But apparently that won't stop Donald Trump from trying to influence the process.
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Jan 15, 2020
At Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders engaged in a "he said, she said" battle regarding a conversation the two progressive candidates had in 2018.
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Jan 15, 2020
Joe Biden's presidential campaign is set to launch a program designed to organize grassroots support at historically black colleges and universities, focusing on electability as a key part of the pitch to students.
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Jan 15, 2020
Iraq's parliament recently voted to expel American troops from within its borders, but the U.S. says it has no plans to leave. Is it time to fully withdraw troops from Iraq?
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Jan 15, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ended a pause in the impeachment proceedings against President Trump on Wednesday by naming seven managers who will act as prosecutors in the Senate trial set to start next week.
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Jan 15, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ended a pause in the impeachment proceedings against President Trump on Wednesday by naming seven managers who will act as prosecutors in the Senate trial set to start next week.
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Jan 15, 2020
For the Trump administration, appointing board members may be an effective and little-noticed means of weakening a federal apparatus it fundamentally distrusts. His board appointments, many of which may outlast his presidency, could serve an internal Republican resistance to a future Democratic administration.
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Jan 15, 2020
Joe Biden avoided any serious missteps while Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren briefly clashed over what Sanders might have said to her over dinner in 2018.
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Jan 14, 2020
Six candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination took the stage on Tuesday night in Des Moines, Iowa, where they spent the first quarter of the debate defending their positions on foreign policy — while tearing into President Trump's.
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Jan 14, 2020
Sen. Bernie Sanders again denied allegations that he told Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2018 that a woman would not be elected president during a private meeting in December 2016.
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Jan 14, 2020
The U.S. Army's top officer said Tuesday during an appearance in Washington, D.C., that he isn't worried by Russia's growing arsenal of hypersonic missiles.
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Jan 14, 2020
"The diplomatic communication channel between [the] U.S. and Iran that is provided by Switzerland in the framework of the protective power mandate continues to operate," a Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson said in an email to Yahoo News.
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Jan 14, 2020
It's virtually certain that the trial will last beyond the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses. The bigger question is how much the trial might interfere with the Feb. 11 New Hampshire primary.
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Jan 14, 2020
Capitol Hill is headed for a week of anticlimactic limbo this week, as Congress jumps through a number of procedural hoops required to actually begin a Senate impeachment trial.
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Jan 14, 2020
In this episode of "Inside Impeachment," Yahoo News Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff breaks down everything you need to know about what to expect now that President Trump has officially been impeached by the House of Representatives. With a Senate trial expected soon and the 2020 presidential race well underway, impeachment is poised to have unexpected consequences for both Democrats and Republicans in the election.
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Jan 14, 2020
Pat Cipollone is using a defensive strategy that could end up redefining the power of the presidency. His detractors say his stonewalling of the impeachment inquiry and other investigations into Trump could do long-term damage to the very institution he is supposed to protect.
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Jan 14, 2020
With ruthless efficiency and speed, and with little consideration of Democratic objections, Trump has managed to largely blunt and even reverse his predecessors' efforts to diversify the federal judiciary by appointing dozens of white men to the bench.
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Jan 14, 2020
Jeffrey Rosen tells Yahoo News that Chief Justice John Roberts will almost certainly avoid weighing in on whether President Trump's Senate impeachment trial should include testimony from witnesses.
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Jan 13, 2020
The question that Democrats are asking now, on the eve of the first all-white debate of the cycle, is why? Why did two high-profile black senators (Cory Booker and Kamala Harris) drop out before Iowa? Why didn't Julián Castro, America's most prominent Latino politician, ever crack 2 percent in the national polls? Why are all four of the remaining front-runners white? Is race the reason?
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Jan 13, 2020
The question that Democrats are asking now, on the eve of the first all-white debate of the cycle, is why? Why did two high-profile black senators (Cory Booker and Kamala Harris) drop out before Iowa? Why didn't Julián Castro, America's most prominent Latino politician, ever crack 2 percent in the national polls? Why are all four of the remaining front-runners white? Is race the reason?
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Jan 13, 2020
A deadly shootout in a kosher deli in Jersey City, N.J., and a stabbing attack in Monsey, N.Y., are part of a pattern of increasing attacks on Jews across the U.S., including deadly assaults on synagogues in Pittsburgh and Poway, Calif., that killed 12.
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Jan 13, 2020
In a series of tweets and retweets riddled with typos and offensive images, President Trump lashed out Monday morning against criticism over the way he and his administration have handled the killing of a top Iranian general.
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Jan 13, 2020
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker said multiple factors had contributed to his conclusion that he had no chance to win the Democratic nomination.
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Jan 13, 2020
Responding to a new ad from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the president misrepresented his administration's health care record.
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Jan 12, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday continued her calls for witnesses in President Trump's impeachment trial after conceding to send articles of impeachment to the Senate in the coming weeks without Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's commitment to hear new testimony.
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Jan 10, 2020
Several campaigns are largely absent from the Snapchat ad market, leaving a six-way battle for Generation Z voters.
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Jan 10, 2020
Not all of Trump's actions toward Iran have been met with public disapproval or division.
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Jan 10, 2020
In a briefing on Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted the U.S. government had "specific information" that Iran was planning an "imminent" attack on American facilities before President Trump ordered a drone strike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
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Jan 10, 2020
The Iran crisis collided with the Democratic presidential race this week as Sen. Bernie Sanders and President Trump battled over the circumstances of the U.S. strike that killed a prominent Iranian general.
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Jan 10, 2020
Rep. Doug Collins apologized Friday for saying that Democrats are "in love with terrorists" and mourn more for killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani than they "mourn for our Gold Star families."
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Jan 10, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that the House will send articles of impeachment to the Senate next week, setting in motion a trial that is likely to run through the end of January.
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Jan 09, 2020
President Trump went after his Democratic critics at a raucous campaign rally hours after the House of Representatives passed a resolution that sought to limit his ability to wage war in Iran.
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Jan 09, 2020
The latest data suggests that Democrats are still so divided that the primary may go on (and on, and on) for another six months — with no nominee until the very end of July's national convention in Milwaukee.
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Jan 09, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she will send articles of impeachment to the Senate "soon," but still wants to see definitive details from the Senate on how it will conduct the trial.
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Jan 09, 2020
The president on Thursday continued to defend his decision to order the drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani without congressional authorization, claiming that Tehran was planning an attack on the U.S. embassy in Iraq.
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Jan 09, 2020
Defending President Trump's order to launch a drone strike that killed Iran's most famous general without congressional authorization, Collins stirred outrage by suggesting Democrats who planned to vote for a resolution limiting the president's war powers are "in love with terrorists."
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Jan 09, 2020
Citing an attempt to avoid censorship, the social media platform will continue to allow politicians to put falsehoods in their ads.
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Jan 09, 2020
A senior official in Ukraine says the authorities in Kyiv are looking into whether a missile brought down a passenger aircraft that crashed in Iran.
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Jan 09, 2020
A senior official in Ukraine says the authorities in Kyiv are looking into whether a missile brought down a passenger aircraft that crashed in Iran on Wednesday.
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Jan 09, 2020
While details remain scant, U.S. authorities believe it's "highly likely" that an errant Iranian missile brought down the Ukrainian passenger jet that crashed outside Tehran, Iran, shortly after taking off on Wednesday.
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Jan 09, 2020
Lawmakers from both side of the aisle have been fighting over whether the Senate impeachment trial will include new witnesses. Can it be considered a true trial without their testimony?
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Jan 08, 2020
What are Iran's military strengths and weaknesses? Iran's military strength does not lie in its conventional forces, despite their size, something that Iranian leaders fully realize, according to Taleblu. "It is a grade-A 1970s military," Taleblu said. _____ How is Iran's military organized?
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Jan 08, 2020
A briefing by Trump administration officials about the U.S. military strike that killed Iran's most famous general backfired on Wednesday, angering two Republican senators and driving them to support a Democratic effort to require congressional approval for any further military engagement.
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Jan 08, 2020
During his address to the nation Wednesday on the exchange of hostilities with Iran over the past week, President Trump made a number of questionable assertions.
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Jan 08, 2020
Time will tell whether the fallout from Soleimani's death will yield negative foreign-policy consequences for the U.S. But for now it appears that war with Iran isn't one of them. That's the best political outcome Trump could have hoped for.
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Jan 08, 2020
There is a long history of animosity — and some interludes of cooperation — between the U.S. and Iran, a nation of 81 million whose proud history traces back more than 2,500 years to ancient Persia.
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Jan 08, 2020
As tensions rise between the U.S. and Iran, legal questions about the president's power to start a war have arisen.
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Jan 08, 2020
The president announced that no lives were lost in Iran's ballistic missile attack on Iraqi bases housing U.S. soldiers, a strike that was in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
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Jan 08, 2020
A Ukrainian passenger jet carrying 176 people crashed on Wednesday, just minutes after taking off from the Iranian capital's main airport, turning farmland on the outskirts of Tehran into fields of flaming debris and killing all on board.
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Jan 07, 2020
The Saudi authorities detected a new destructive cyberattack suspected of coming from Iran on Dec. 29, the same day the U.S. military struck targets controlled by Iranian-backed proxies in retaliation for a rocket attack that killed an American contractor the previous Friday.
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Jan 07, 2020
If U.S. forces departed Iraq, "I suspect additional forces would have to be based in Syria," said the former military commander in Iraq.
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Jan 07, 2020
Iran launched attacks on U.S. military bases in Iraq on Tuesday evening in apparent retaliation for the killing of Iranian General Qassem which was ordered by President Trump.
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Jan 07, 2020
Democrats said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's impeachment delay has paid off for them despite the fact that the Senate trial will go forward without an immediate agreement on witnesses.
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Jan 07, 2020
They know the arguments. They know America has never elected a Jewish president, or a 78-year-old president, or a democratic socialist president. (Both Buttigieg and Warren have recently fallen behind the president.) Sanders' Democratic rivals have yet to weaponize the doubts about his electability.
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Jan 07, 2020
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday that the United States "should expect" retaliation from Iran for the drone strike that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani ordered by President Trump.
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Jan 07, 2020
After years of decrying the "Deep State" for allegedly attacking his campaign and presidency, Trump's team is now embracing government agencies.
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Jan 07, 2020
If you're happy about the U.S.'s killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, President Trump's reelection campaign has a suggestion for how to show it: with a $100 donation.
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Jan 07, 2020
The secretary of state provided no further details on what "imminent threat" was prevented by killing Gen. Qassem Soleimani in an airstrike last week.
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Jan 06, 2020
The Department of Defense said a memo sent to Iraqi officials announcing the withdrawal of U.S troops was a mistake.
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Jan 06, 2020
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., stood by his decision Monday to post a fake photograph of former President Barack Obama shaking hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani despite the fact that the two men never met in person.
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Jan 06, 2020
Reminder: There are 28 days until the Iowa caucuses and 302 days until the 2020 election. Fourteen Democrats have dropped out. Exactly one year ago, Joe Biden led the field with 27.7 percent support, according to the RealClear Politics national polling average; Bernie Sanders was second with 17.3 percent.
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Jan 06, 2020
The killing of top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani has raised questions about what exactly to call the tactic that led to his death in a drone strike at a Baghdad airport.
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Jan 06, 2020
President Trump's former national security adviser said Monday that he is willing to testify in an impeachment trial if he is subpoenaed, but there has been no indication that the Republican-controlled Senate will ask him to do so.
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Jan 06, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden still leads in national polling, with two progressive senators and a former mayor from Indiana his closest competitors.
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Jan 06, 2020
Yahoo News is a member of the One Free Press Coalition and is publishing the group's latest "10 Most Urgent" list below to highlight the increasingly dangerous climate for journalism and free expression around the world in an effort to roll back repressive anti-press policies.
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Jan 05, 2020
With the Iowa caucuses less than a month away, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Pete Buttigieg find themselves in a three-way tie as a top choice for voters if the Democratic primary were held today, according to a new CBS poll.
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Jan 05, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday defended President Trump's order to launch a drone strike that killed Iran's charismatic Gen. Qassem Soleimani, escalating the tension between Washington and Tehran.
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Jan 05, 2020
The Democratic primary field is becoming less diverse over time. Will having a top tier of white candidates hurt the party's chances of unseating Donald Trump?
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Jan 03, 2020
Launching a political coalition called "Evangelicals for Trump" at a Florida megachurch on Friday, President Trump declared his belief that God supports his agenda.
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Jan 03, 2020
Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, vowed to exact "severe revenge" for the Thursday night U.S. airstrike that killed the country's most famous general, but the Iranian regime will have to walk a fine line to respond strongly without provoking a war with the United States, former intelligence officials familiar with the region said Friday. Qassem Soleimani headed the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Quds Force, which combines intelligence gathering, covert action and special operations. Also killed in the airstrike, which hit two vehicles, was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the leader of the Iraqi Shiite militia group Kataib Hezbollah, along with several other Quds Force and militia members.
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Jan 03, 2020
Two hearings in a Washington court brought the battle between the House and the White House into stark relief.
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Jan 03, 2020
President Trump said Friday that he ordered the targeted killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq in order "to stop a war."
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Jan 03, 2020
As the standoff over rules for an impeachment trial continues, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell repeated Friday that he would consider a proposal to call for witness testimony — a stance that his Democratic counterpart, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, calls a "trap."
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Jan 03, 2020
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was confronted Thursday by angry residents of the town of Cobargo as bushfires made worse by climate change continued to ravage the country.
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Jan 03, 2020
Many top Democratic presidential candidates cautioned against potential military escalation in the Middle East after a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad killed a top Iranian official, Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
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Jan 03, 2020
President Trump on Friday defended the authorization of a U.S. drone strike that killed Iran's top general in Baghdad, suggesting that the killing should have been carried out by previous administrations.
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Jan 03, 2020
President Trump on Friday defended the authorization of a U.S. drone strike that killed Iran's top general in Baghdad, suggesting that the killing should have been carried out by previous administrations.
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Jan 02, 2020
Former housing secretary and San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro dropped out of the Democratic race for president Thursday and spiritualist author Marianne Williamson laid off her entire campaign staff amid rumors she was close to ending her campaign.
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Jan 02, 2020
President Trump and his allies have called for the whistleblower who filed a complaint that launched impeachment to be publicly identified. Does the public have the right to know or does the whistleblower deserve anonymity.
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