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Jan 16, 2019
No talks were publicly scheduled as the Los Angeles teachers' strike enters its third day. Some 30,000 Los Angeles teachers are on strike for higher pay, smaller class sizes and more staff. (Reuters)
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Jan 16, 2019
The same day that ISIS fighters in Syria claimed responsibility for a deadly bomb attack, the vice president echoed the president's assessment that the group had been vanquished.
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Jan 16, 2019
The Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hammered former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler on Wednesday for his role in rolling back environmental protections at the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Jan 16, 2019
When the Pentagon announced last November that it was ceasing aerial refueling of Saud-led coalition aircraft operating in Yemen, the move appeared to be a major step back from U.S. support for the war there. But newly obtained documents reveal that the United States has also been training coalition military personnel from the United Arab Emirates for the air war in Yemen.
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Jan 16, 2019
The president has claimed repeatedly that many federal workers directly impacted by the partial U.S. government shutdown support his demand for a border wall. But a new poll of government employees shows that few actually do.
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Jan 16, 2019
Kenyan security forces have killed the militants who stormed an upscale Nairobi hotel compound, taking at least 14 lives and forcing hundreds of others to make terrifying escapes, the government said on Wednesday.
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Jan 16, 2019
Rep. Steve King's base of support, including in his home state of Iowa, continues to erode after comments he made appearing to praise white supremacy were published in the New York Times. The latest salvo came as the Sioux City Journal, a conservative newspaper in Iowa's Fourth District that had previously endorsed the Republican congressman, called on him to resign. "It's hard for us to summon words that will properly convey how repugnant we view that remark," said the paper in response to King asking, "White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?" earlier this month.
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Jan 16, 2019
FILE - In this June 8, 2018, file photo, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. On Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019, the House voted 416-1 for a resolution repudiating Kingâ??s words expressing puzzlement about why terms like â??white nationalistâ? are offensive.
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Jan 16, 2019
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pondering whether he will have a bigger impact on the country as a Democratic presidential candidate or a businessman and philanthropist. And he intends to decide soon.
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Jan 15, 2019
The New York senator becomes the third woman to enter the 2020 presidential race.
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Jan 15, 2019
The New York senator becomes the third woman to enter a growing Democratic field.
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Jan 15, 2019
A home burns as the Camp Fire rages through Paradise, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) As the record-setting partial federal shutdown continues, forestry experts worry that furloughing thousands of government workers could exacerbate this year's wildfire season. Lenya Quinn-Davidson, who serves as the Area Fire Advisor for the University of California Cooperative Extension, told Yahoo News that right now workers who would normally be clearing out areas of potential fuel aren't in the field, raising the risk of devastating fires later in the year. Tactics like controlled burns and forest thinning have worked in years past to reduce the severity of fires and limit their size.
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Jan 15, 2019
Zimbabwe's police and military patrolled the streets of the capital, Harare, Tuesday as a helicopter fired tear gas at demonstrators blocking a road and burning tires on a second day of deadly protests after the government more than doubled the price of fuel in the economically shattered country. (AP)
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Jan 15, 2019
The New York Democrat announced her intentions on CBS' "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" ahead of a trip to Iowa this weekend.
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Jan 15, 2019
William P. Barr, President Trump's nominee for attorney general, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would support a law that prohibits recreational marijuana.
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Jan 15, 2019
President Trump's nominee for attorney general was asked during his confirmation hearing whether, if confirmed, his Justice Department would "jail journalists for doing their jobs." He said he could envision that happening.
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Jan 15, 2019
President Trump's nominee for attorney general promises that he will abide by his sense of what is right and will not be susceptible to pressure from the president or from whatever quarter.
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Jan 15, 2019
William Barr, President Trump's nominee for attorney general, said Tuesday that he doesn't believe Robert Mueller is involved in a "witch hunt" and, if confirmed, would pledge to allow the special counsel to complete the Russia investigation without interference.
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Jan 15, 2019
President Trump's attorney general nominee William Barr said on Tuesday that he doesn't believe Robert Mueller is involved in a "witch hunt" and, if confirmed, would pledge to allow the special counsel to complete the Russia investigation without interference.
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Jan 15, 2019
The trim man with salt-and-pepper hair and broad, kind features can occasionally be seen in court proceedings connected to special counsel Robert Mueller, sitting in the back of courtrooms taking notes in an extra-large government ledger. As the spokesman for the special counsel's office, Peter Carr is one of the only official sources of information on the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, a probe that riveted the public, and the president.
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Jan 14, 2019
The president shells out for a fast food feast at the White House.
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Jan 14, 2019
The president shells out for a fast food feast at the White House.
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Jan 14, 2019
The president receives a slew of bad economic news as the government shutdown drags into new week.
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Jan 14, 2019
Rifts have opened up in the Women's March movement, which is preparing an event in Washington, D.C., this Saturday. Some women who marched before are sitting it out or attending separate rallies unaffiliated with the national organization.
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Jan 14, 2019
President Trump brushed off the characterization from the freshman congresswoman.
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Jan 14, 2019
The second oldest member of the Senate prides himself on his bipartisan achievements, but he has been one of President Trump's most effective allies.
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Jan 13, 2019
Sen. Ted Cruz said Americans do not care much about special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe outside of Washington, D.C.
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Jan 13, 2019
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said it's worth asking whether President Trump acted as an agent for the Russian government during his presidential campaign — wittingly or unwittingly.
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Jan 12, 2019
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya speaks during an interview in Moscow, Russia in 2016. The Russian lawyer who played a key role in the infamous Trump tower meeting with Trump campaign officials, including Donald Trump Jr., tells Yahoo News she won't return to the United States to face charges that she lied in an unrelated court case. In a phone interview conducted with Yahoo News, Natalia Veselnitskaya calmly but insistently denied the charges, and said she would use "all methods" to defend herself, but would do so from Russia, where she lives with her four children, and would not come to the United States.
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Jan 11, 2019
Martin Fayulu, the runner-up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's presidential election, pledged to launch a formal fraud complaint in a dispute that could reawaken violence in the nation, where millions have died in civil wars since the 1990s. Pre-election polls predicted a landslide win for Fayulu. But in a surprise result, the businessman, who was backed by powerful exiled politicians and former militia leaders, lost out to another opposition leader, Felix Tshisekedi. (Reuters)
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Jan 11, 2019
Iowa Republican Steve King tries to explain the context behind racist remarks attributed to him in the New York Times.
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Jan 11, 2019
Welcome to a new Yahoo News column covering the wide open presidential race.
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Jan 11, 2019
Welcome to a new Yahoo News column covering the wide open presidential race.
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Jan 11, 2019
Americans are expressing shame and frustration at what is soon to be the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
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Jan 11, 2019
Yahoo News interviews Americans affected by the government shutdown.
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Jan 10, 2019
Hundreds of furloughed federal employees chanting "we want to work" gathered for a union-led march to the White House on Thursday, the 20th day of a partial government shutdown over U.S. President Donald Trump's demand for border wall funding. Here's a look at protests in Washington and other cities around the nation.
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Jan 10, 2019
The FBI Agents Association are petitioning Congress and the White House to fund the bureau as the government shutdown drags on.
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Jan 10, 2019
President Trump on Thursday will visit the southern border of the United States as he continues to promote building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico — a signature promise of his 2016 presidential campaign.
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Jan 10, 2019
White House adviser Jared Kushner is reaching out to both sides of the aisle as multiple members of Congress are pushing a "DACA for the wall" deal to end the shutdown.
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Jan 10, 2019
President Trump is disputing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's assertion that he had a "temper tantrum" before walking out of a White House meeting on border security.
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Jan 10, 2019
Speaking to the nation from the Oval Office for the first time on Jan. 8, 2019, President Donald Trump urged congressional Democrats to fund his long-promised border wall Tuesday night in a somber televised address that was heavy with dark immigration rhetoric but offered little in the way of concessions or new ideas to break the standoff that has left large swaths of the government shuttered. (AP)
Here's a look back at presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Donald Trump broadcasting on television.
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Jan 10, 2019
Speaking to the nation from the Oval Office for the first time on Jan. 8, 2019, President Donald Trump urged congressional Democrats to fund his long-promised border wall Tuesday night in a somber televised address that was heavy with dark immigration rhetoric but offered little in the way of concessions or new ideas to break the standoff that has left large swaths of the government shuttered. (AP)
Here's a look back at presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Donald Trump broadcasting on television.
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Jan 10, 2019
In Trump's America, taking personal responsibility for anything you say or do is suddenly out of vogue, no matter which side you're on or how petty the issue.
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Jan 09, 2019
President Trump tweeted: "I asked what is going to happen in 30 days if I quickly open things up, are you going to approve Border Security which includes a Wall or Steel Barrier? Nancy said, NO. I said bye-bye, nothing else works!
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Jan 09, 2019
At a rally in downtown Philadelphia, furloughed government workers joined by four members of Congress expressed frustration at the prolonged partial government shutdown.
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Jan 09, 2019
Nearly two dozen furloughed government employees appeared alongside Democratic leaders at a news conference on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., where they were asked by a reporter to raise their hand if they supported the president's position. None of them did.
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Jan 09, 2019
President Trump is threatening to cut California's emergency federal funding for fighting wildfires.
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Jan 08, 2019
The president made his case for the construction of a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico in a primetime address to the nation.
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Jan 08, 2019
Ahead of President Trump's prime time Oval Office address Tuesday, the White House issued a press release outlining a variety of additional funding demands from Congress to address what Trump has described as a "the security and humanitarian crises" on the southern border.
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Jan 08, 2019
The progressive activist and philanthropist tells Yahoo News that he will announce Wednesday whether he will seek the presidency in 2020.
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Jan 08, 2019
Under a huge tent shielding thousands of guests from looming rainclouds, Gavin Newsom mounted the stage in Sacramento Monday to take his oath of office and deliver an inaugural address. It was an afternoon rich in symbolism: a passing of the generational torch from four-term Gov. Jerry Brown, a curmudgeonly, childless octogenarian, to a 51-year-old former wine entrepreneur and San Francisco mayor with four young kids. It was also a reversal of Brown's blunt, even bleak, mantra of austerity — eight years ago he celebrated his own inauguration by eating a hot dog — to a flashier form of leadership. Newsom hosted a concert with Common and Pitbull instead.
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Jan 06, 2019
Julián Castro said President Trump's treatment of longtime American allies is "the greatest threat to our national security" today.
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Jan 04, 2019
President Trump says a border wall with Mexico would help keep drugs from coming across the border. But that's not how the Mexican cartels operate.
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Jan 04, 2019
Rep. Eric Swalwell discusses the aggressive agenda for the House Intelligence Committee and it's not good news for the president.
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Jan 04, 2019
President Trump floated the possibility he could declare a "national emergency" in order to build a wall on the southern border during a freewheeling press conference.
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Jan 04, 2019
Nearly 400,000 workers have been off the federal payroll since the government shutdown began at midnight on Dec. 22. While most workers received back pay after previous shutdowns, there's no guarantee that will be the case this time around. Some contract workers, including janitors, security guards and administrative staff, won't receive back pay at all. Congress has to pass — and the president has to sign — legislation that specifically authorizes the government to pay federal employees for the time they were on furlough.
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Jan 04, 2019
Less than a day after being sworn in as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., appears ready to push an ambitious plan to combat climate change.
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Jan 04, 2019
Less than a day after being sworn in as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., appears ready to push an ambitious plan to combat climate change.
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Jan 04, 2019
President Trump on Friday responded to renewed impeachment talk by some Democratic members of the new Congress, suggesting he has been too successful a president to be impeached.
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Jan 03, 2019
The Congressional Progressive Caucus is set to add at least 10 new members — including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, who successfully won primaries against Democratic incumbents — in the new session of Congress, with their membership now exceeding 90 members. Does Nancy Pelosi risk the same fate? The tea party's wing in Congress is the House Freedom Caucus, a group of far-right legislators (approximately three dozen in the new 116th Congress) that, after driving former House Speaker John Boehner from Congress, blocked Rep. Kevin McCarthy from succeeding him and by voting as a bloc exerted outsized influence on legislation ranging from an Obamacare repeal to the farm bill.
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Jan 03, 2019
The president's first appearance in the briefing room didn't include any questions from reporters.
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Jan 03, 2019
Democrats who didn't vote for Pelosi offered strikingly similar reasons.
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Jan 03, 2019
When the 116th U.S. Congress is sworn in Thursday afternoon, it will be most diverse class of lawmakers to ever take office on Capitol Hill.
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Jan 03, 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who entered the 2020 presidential race this week, is very much a politician — and an unusually good one at that.
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Jan 02, 2019
As congressional leaders from both parties left the White House Wednesday with little progress on ending the ongoing government shutdown, some lawmakers appeared ready to try to resurrect a deal that would secure billions for the construction border wall in exchange for protections for children of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally.
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Jan 02, 2019
As congressional leaders left the White House on Wednesday with little progress on ending the government shutdown, some lawmakers appeared ready to try to resurrect a deal that would secure billions for the construction of a border wall in exchange for protections for children of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally.
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Jan 02, 2019
As congressional leaders left the White House on Wednesday with little progress on ending the government shutdown, some lawmakers appeared ready to try to resurrect a deal that would secure billions for the construction of a border wall in exchange for protections for children of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally.
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Jan 02, 2019
Paul Whelan, a U.S. citizen detained in Russia for suspected spying, appears in a photo provided by the Whelan family on January 1, 2019. WASHINGTON — Sometime between Christmas and New Year's Eve, Russian domestic security officials arrested Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine who works in corporate security, accusing the American of embarking on a "spy mission." It's a charge that several former intelligence officers who spoke with Yahoo News found highly unlikely. "I think it's quite clear this is not an American intelligence operation," but rather further evidence of a Russian influence campaign directed against the West, said Steven Hall, a former senior CIA official who managed intelligence operations in Eurasia and is an expert in Russia.
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Jan 02, 2019
Mitt Romney's op-ed criticizing Trump's character and behavior in office fostered speculation it was the opening salvo for a 2020 campaign, but a lot would have to happen before he mounts a real challenge.
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Jan 02, 2019
The president repeatedly invokes a comparison while attempting to sell increased border security to the American public.
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Jan 02, 2019
President Trump on Wednesday responded to Mitt Romney after the incoming Utah senator criticized him in a scathing Washington Post op-ed.
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Dec 31, 2018
From Australia to the United States, spectacular fireworks light the skies to celebrate the start of 2019.
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Dec 31, 2018
The president passes New Year's Eve day on his favorite social media platform.
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Dec 31, 2018
From Australia to the United States, spectacular fireworks light the skies to celebrate the start of 2019.
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Dec 31, 2018
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., became the first major Democrat to take an official step towards running for president in 2020, by launching an exploratory committee on Monday.
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Dec 31, 2018
As 2018 draws to a close, Yahoo News looks back at those we lost this year. Join us in remembering a group that includes a former president, one of the greatest singers of all time, and iconic actors, authors and directors.
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Dec 30, 2018
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 76, said he will decide whether to run for president in early 2019.
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Dec 30, 2018
Former officials said Miller's appearances have been a "disaster" and are a sign of a communications operation in disarray.
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Dec 30, 2018
Sen. Lindsey Graham said that former President Barack Obama is to blame for "everything we're dealing with today" because of his decision to withdraw from Iraq in 2011.
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Dec 29, 2018
Immigration and border policy made news in 2018, but for every new policy or executive action that dominated headlines, there were other changes that flew under the radar.
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Dec 29, 2018
Immigration and border policy made news in 2018, but for every new policy or executive action that dominated headlines, there were other changes that flew under the radar.
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Dec 28, 2018
A boy carries a picture of Guatemalan seven-year-old Jakelin Caal, who died in a Texas hospital two days after being taken into custody by US border patrol agents in a remote stretch of the New Mexico desert, as her coffin is taken from Raxruha to the cemetery in San Antonio Secortez, both villages in Alta Verapaz Department, 320 km north of Guatemala City, on December 25, 2018. Jakelin Caal died after being arrested with her father and others crossing from Mexico into the US on December 6. The death of an 8-year-old Guatemalan immigrant in custody on Christmas Eve is a sign that U.S. officials need to make dramatic improvements to health and sanitation conditions at the border, especially for children, according to a physician familiar with medical issues faced by migrants.
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Dec 28, 2018
The death of an 8-year-old Guatemalan immigrant in custody on Christmas Eve is a sign that U.S. officials need to make dramatic improvements to health and sanitation conditions at the border, says a physician familiar with medical issues faced by migrants.
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Dec 28, 2018
The deadly storms, shootings and divisive political rhetoric that seemed to define 2018 may have dominated the headlines. But there was plenty of good news, too.
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Dec 28, 2018
A former top U.S. military commander criticized President Trump for turning his visit to an Iraqi air base into a "political rally" that improperly used U.S. troops for partisan purposes.
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Dec 28, 2018
A former top U.S. military commander criticized President Trump for turning his visit to an Iraqi air base into a "political rally" that improperly used U.S. troops for partisan purposes.
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Dec 28, 2018
In the unrelenting news cycle that has come to define President Trump's administration, plenty of news went largely overlooked or was otherwise lost in the blur of 2018.
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Dec 28, 2018
After a year filled with dramatic revelations from prosecutors in the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, the investigation into Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election appears to be nearing a conclusion, with potentially huge consequences for the president.
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Dec 28, 2018
President Trump's second year in office was filled with plenty of dramatic moments. Here are some of the most memorable.
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Dec 27, 2018
Former first lady Michelle Obama was named the most admired woman in the United States in an annual poll conducted by Gallup.
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Dec 27, 2018
Former first lady Michelle Obama was named the most admired woman in the United States in an annual poll conducted by Gallup.
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Dec 27, 2018
(Bloomberg) -- Michelle Obama, who's touring the U.S. to promote her autobiography, was named the most admired woman by Americans in a Gallup poll released today. It's the first time in 17 years that former First Lady Hillary Clinton didn't top the list.
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Dec 27, 2018
Fifty-three journalists were killed in 2018, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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Dec 26, 2018
Trump made a surprise visit to Iraq amid controversy over his planned troop withdrawal in Syria.
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Dec 26, 2018
President Donald Trump made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Wednesday, leaving behind a partially shuttered U.S. government to greet American troops helping hold off extremists in a country where thousands of Americans died during the recent war.
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Dec 26, 2018
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump made a surprise visit to U.S. troops in Iraq on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018.
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Dec 26, 2018
A sign is displayed on a government building that is closed because of a US government shutdown in Washington, DC, on Dec. 22, 2018. Christmas has come and gone but the partial government shutdown is just getting started. Wednesday brings the first full business day after several government departments and agencies closed up over the weekend due to a budgetary stalemate between President Donald Trump and Congress.
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Dec 26, 2018
President Trump's relationship with the intelligence community has long been rocky, and it's not likely to get much better in 2019 as special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation draws to a close.
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Dec 26, 2018
President Trump's relationship with the intelligence community has long been rocky, and it's not likely to get much better in 2019 as special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation draws to a close.
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Dec 26, 2018
Relive the stories that defined 2018 with the year's best photos handpicked by our editors.
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