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Dec 13, 2018
Walter Shaub takes issue with the president over his recent stances on Saudi Arabia and China.
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Dec 13, 2018
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill. WASHINGTON — On Thursday afternoon, an all-star team from across the conservative movement gathered on Capitol Hill to celebrate a major accomplishment of the Trump administration. Standing with Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, in a wood-paneled Senate meeting room were members of Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, two groups funded by the libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch.
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Dec 13, 2018
In their farewell addresses on the Senate floor, senators call out the hyperpartisan atmosphere that has taken hold of the U.S. Capitol.
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Dec 13, 2018
In their farewell addresses on the Senate floor, Senators call out the hyper-partisan atmosphere that has taken hold of the U.S. capitol.
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Dec 13, 2018
Russian agent Maria Butina's plea deal includes a description of the "Diplomacy Project" she ran, under the direction of Putin ally Alexander Torshin, to influence American policy leading up to the 2016 election.
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Dec 13, 2018
President Trump, who once denied knowing about the hush-money payments, now suggests his former lawyer and longtime fixer Michael Cohen should've known what they were doing was illegal.
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Dec 13, 2018
When Trump flouts the conventions of the office, he's winning with his core voters. It doesn't matter what he's saying — what matters is that he's making the rest of us howl in indignation.
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Dec 12, 2018
"He can't prosecute him. All he can do is write a report about him, so write the goddamned thing and get it over with now."
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Dec 12, 2018
"He can't prosecute him. All he can do is write a report about him, so write the goddamned thing and get it over with now."
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Dec 12, 2018
"We've got 79 committed yes votes on this bill. I think by the time we vote on it, it will be in the high 80s," said Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, a key backer of the legislation, on Fox News radio.
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Dec 12, 2018
Ballot measures are a way for voters to exercise some direct democracy, but in some cases the will of the people doesn't always translate to policy.
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Dec 12, 2018
President Trump on Wednesday offered the deadly shooting at a Christmas market in Strasbourg as evidence the United States needs stronger border security.
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Dec 11, 2018
"We caught 10 terrorists over the last very short period of time."
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Dec 11, 2018
"We caught 10 terrorists over the last very short period of time."
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Dec 11, 2018
Google CEO Sundar Pichai appears before the House Judiciary Committee to be questioned about the internet giant's privacy security and data collection, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. WASHINGTON—Two things were clear from Tuesday's testimony of Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google's parent company Alphabet, Inc.: Everyone is unhappy with Silicon Valley, though everyone is unhappy for different reasons. Pichai was called to testify by Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, who believe that conservative outlets and views are suppressed by Google's search engine.
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Dec 11, 2018
In a remarkably unguarded and contentious exchange in front of reporters inside the Oval Office, President Trump argued with Congressional Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi over border security.
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Dec 11, 2018
Trump has labored mightily to restore coal to the prominence it enjoyed in the first half of the 20th century. But neither policymakers nor energy companies are following his lead.
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Dec 10, 2018
A public service announcement released by the gun violence prevention organization Sandy Hook Promise depicts the moments leading up to a school shooting from the shooter's perspective.
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Dec 10, 2018
Former Obama chief of staff William Daley thinks Trump could easily end up not filling the role after John Kelly steps down.
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Dec 10, 2018
The venture is an attempt at brand extension by Erik Prince, the well-connected founder of Blackwater, which began supplying private security services to U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan more than a decade ago. The company's initial success with Defense Department and CIA contracts was followed by a series of scandals, including the 2007 Nisour Square massacre in Iraq, in which Blackwater contractors killed more than a dozen civilians. Prince, a former Navy SEAL and the brother of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, was accused of hiring mercenaries, a term he resents.
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Dec 10, 2018
An ad for Huawei in front of an Apple store in Shanghai. WASHINGTON, D.C. — A growing number of companies across China have announced new policies requiring the exclusive use of Huawei products, and in some cases penalizing employees who purchase iPhones, in what appears to be a growing domestic movement to support the Chinese tech giant after the arrest of its heir apparent in Canada. Canadian authorities detained Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer for Huawei and daughter of the company's founder, Ren Zhengfei, as she changed planes during a layover in Vancouver on Dec. 1.
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Dec 10, 2018
For years, quantum computing, which leverages the difficult, and, to many, spooky science of quantum mechanics, has been a subject mostly of interest to the technical elite. Yet as scientists and now policymakers point to the rapid progress that China is making in the field, it's the intelligence community that appears to be the most alarmed.
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Dec 09, 2018
The fourth weekend of violent protests in France paralyzed the capital, as demonstrators called for the resignation of President Emmanuel Macron.
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Dec 09, 2018
President Trump claimed that former FBI director James Comey lied to Congress and questioned why he couldn't remember details about the Justice Department leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
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Dec 09, 2018
Sen. Marco Rubio said President Trump would be making a 'terrible mistake' if he decides to pardon Paul Manafort.
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Dec 08, 2018
In late spring 2017, President Trump was having a hard time finding a topflight lawyer to spearhead his defense in the sprawling Russian investigation conducted by the new special counsel Robert Mueller. Around that time, sources tell Yahoo News, White House officials reached out to a man they thought would be an ideal candidate: William P. Barr, the attorney general under President George H.W. Bush.
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Dec 08, 2018
President Trump initially wanted William Barr to be his defense counsel, sources say, but Trump has tapped Barr for an even more important position: attorney general, a post that, if he is confirmed, would put him in charge of the Mueller investigation.
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Dec 08, 2018
Anti-government protesters faced off with French riot police in Paris on Saturday, hurling projectiles, torching cars and vandalizing shops and restaurants in a fourth weekend of unrest that has shaken President Emmanuel Macron's authority.
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Dec 08, 2018
Protesters took to the streets here Saturday, calling for the resignation of French President Emmanuel Macron — and, in Trump's imagination at least, wildly cheering the American president.
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Dec 07, 2018
Former Trump 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort leaves U.S. Federal Court after being arraigned on twelve federal charges in the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election in Washington, U.S. October 30, 2017. WASHINGTON—Prosecutors with Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation revealed in a court filing on Friday evening that Paul Manafort lied to them about several contacts he had with senior Trump administration officials while he was under indictment. "The evidence demonstrates that Manafort lied about his contacts," the prosecutors wrote.
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Dec 07, 2018
Michael Cohen, former lawyer to President Donald Trump, leaves his apartment building on New York's Park Avenue, Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. In the latest filings Friday, prosecutors will weigh in on whether Cohen deserves prison time and, if so, how much. WASHINGTON—Two teams of prosecutors filed memos in federal court on Friday describing their recommendations for how President Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, should be sentenced after pleading guilty to several felonies.
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Dec 07, 2018
Wisconsin Republican attempts to reduce Democrats' power before they take the governorship in January is "a huge issue for a liberal democracy," columnist Andrew Sullivan said. Sullivan wrote in a recent column for New York magazine that every aspect of the American political system is under strain, is less trusted, and that if this trend continues, political violence could ensue.
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Dec 07, 2018
"Often, the president would say, ‘Here's what I want to do and here's how I want to do it.' And I would have to say to him, 'Mr. President, I understand what you want to do, but you can't do it that way. It violates the law.'"
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Dec 07, 2018
"Often, the president would say, ‘Here's what I want to do and here's how I want to do it.' And I would have to say to him, 'Mr. President, I understand what you want to do, but you can't do it that way. It violates the law.'"
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Dec 07, 2018
"Often, the president would say, ‘Here's what I want to do and here's how I want to do it.' And I would have to say to him, 'Mr. President, I understand what you want to do, but you can't do it that way. It violates the law.'"
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Dec 07, 2018
77 years ago today on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, a Sunday, Japanese bombers flew across Oahu, Hawaii, and began their assault.
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Dec 07, 2018
President Trump's order cracking down on asylum seekers at the southern border has been stayed by a federal judge, but a small group of determined migrants who made it through the border fence discovered that at least some Border Patrol agents appear to be enforcing it anyway. On the afternoon of Dec. 1, about 10 women and children, a small part of one of the caravans that traveled hundreds of miles through Mexico from Honduras, crossed the border fence near its western end on the beach near San Diego.
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Dec 07, 2018
President Trump on Friday unleashed his Twitter fury at Robert Mueller's Russia investigation hours before new memos from the special counsel's office were due to be filed.
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Dec 07, 2018
Although projections for the future capture the most attention, the consequences of climate change are already wreaking havoc on our planet and our health.
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Dec 06, 2018
Bernard McNamee speaks at the Senate nomination hearing on Nov. 15. For Bernard L. McNamee, who today became one of the nation's top energy regulators, it was an opportunity to praise oil and coal. "This Earth Day, let's accept the critical role that fossil fuel plays in energy needs," read the headline of his op-ed published in The Hill.
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Dec 06, 2018
Anibal Romero says "many of the abuses" his clients received at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., "constitute crimes."
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Dec 06, 2018
The state's Board of Elections voted to not certify the results amid the ongoing investigation, and Nancy Pelosi, the favorite to be House speaker next year, said the House could refuse to seat the uncertified Republican.
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Dec 06, 2018
Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler proposed eliminating an Obama-era clean air rule to encourage the creation of more coal power plants.
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Dec 06, 2018
Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler proposed eliminating an Obama-era clean air rule to encourage the creation of more coal power plants.
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Dec 06, 2018
Former President George H.W. Bush will be mourned on Thursday at the Houston church where he worshipped for many years, a final public farewell before his remains are taken by train to their resting place at his Texas presidential library.
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Dec 06, 2018
From 2009 to 2013, the CIA's online method of communicating with its sources was compromised — leading to the exfiltration, imprisonment or death of dozens of people. And the problem is proving hard to fix.
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Dec 06, 2018
There is no question that Trump is more hostile to climate science than any president in modern history. Yet neither climate science nor science in general have suffered much in the Trump administration — at least not if funding levels are an indication.
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Dec 06, 2018
It was hard to watch George H.W. Bush's funeral proceedings this week and not wonder how Donald Trump's last farewell will someday compare.
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Dec 06, 2018
It's a bittersweet farewell for retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan, who failed to reduce the budget deficit or to stand up to President Trump when it counted. But he still has his admirers — including some Democrats.
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Dec 05, 2018
After a galvanizing Senate race that fell just short, the Texas Democrat is spending time with his family and weighing his options — including another Senate run, or the presidential campaign his fans are urging.
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Dec 05, 2018
George H.W. Bush was celebrated with high praise and loving humor Wednesday as the nation bade farewell to the man who was America's 41st president and the last to fight for the U.S. in wartime. Three former presidents looked on at Washington National Cathedral as a fourth — George W. Bush — eulogized his dad.
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Dec 05, 2018
Former President George W. Bush kept his composure while delivering the eulogy for his father, former President George H. W. Bush, at his state funeral Wednesday at the Washington National Cathedral — until its final lines. Former President George W. Bush speaks during the funeral service for former President George H. W. Bush at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 5, 2018. "Let us know the blessings of knowing and loving you," Bush said, breaking down in tears.
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Dec 05, 2018
President Trump joined all four living former presidents Wednesday at the state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush at the Washington National Cathedral.
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Dec 05, 2018
World leaders gathered at the state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush at the Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday.
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Dec 05, 2018
World leaders will pay their respects at the state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush at the Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday.
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Dec 04, 2018
The memo did not divulge any details about a second criminal investigation Mueller is working on, and it hinted about a possible third.
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Dec 04, 2018
Following Democratic successes in the midterm elections, Republican legislatures in Michigan and Wisconsin are looking to limit the power of incoming officials via lame-duck session power grabs. Friday afternoon Republican legislators in Wisconsin proposed a number of bills aimed at limiting the power of incoming governor-elect Tony Evers and attorney general-elect Josh Kaul, both Democrats.
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Dec 04, 2018
The South Carolina senator has been one of the president's most dependable allies, until now.
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Dec 04, 2018
Stormy Daniels' lawyer, who had been toying with a White House bid, said on Tuesday that his family requested he not run.
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Dec 04, 2018
The former vice president believes he is the "most qualified person in the country to be president" and will make a decision on a 2020 bid within the next two months.
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Dec 04, 2018
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said fighting climate change will require bold action akin to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal or NASA's Apollo program.
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Dec 04, 2018
Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said fighting climate change will require bold action akin to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal or NASA's Apollo program.
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Dec 03, 2018
The office of the special counsel investigating ties between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election says it is "tying up loose ends."
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Dec 03, 2018
The office of the special counsel investigating ties between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election says it is "tying up loose ends."
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Dec 03, 2018
The president praises a longtime associate for refusing to testify against him in the special counsel's Russia probe.
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Dec 03, 2018
President Trump on Monday sounded off on the Russia investigation, suggesting his former personal attorney Michael Cohen should not receive leniency for cooperating with the probe and declaring that former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone had "guts" for refusing to testify against him.
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Dec 03, 2018
The leader of a group formed by Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams says it can prove that voters were illegally removed from state rolls over the past few years by the office of former Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
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Dec 02, 2018
Photos pay tribute to George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States, who died at 94 on Friday.
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Dec 02, 2018
Colin Powell said that George H.W. Bush will be remembered for his remarkable humility as well as his foreign policy expertise.
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Dec 02, 2018
Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone said Sunday morning that he would never testify against the president.
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Dec 02, 2018
Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone said Sunday morning that he would never testify against the president.
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Dec 01, 2018
Rioters ran amok across central Paris on Saturday, torching cars and buildings, looting shops, smashing windows and clashing with police in the worst unrest in more than a decade, posing a dire challenge to Emmanuel Macron's presidency.
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Dec 01, 2018
George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, died Friday at age 94.
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Dec 01, 2018
Matt B. Chessen, who serves as acting deputy science and technology adviser to the secretary of state, delivers what might be considered a rebuke of the president.
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Dec 01, 2018
This is one in a series of 13 Yahoo News interviews with historians about defining moments in presidential leadership. The interviews were conducted by Andrew Romano, Lisa Belkin and Sam Matthews, and the videos were produced by Sam Matthews. The series was published in September. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham, author of "Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush," spoke to Yahoo News about Bush's defining moment of presidential leadership: the costly decision to defy his Republican base and break his "no new taxes" pledge to bring the federal budget deficit under control.
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Dec 01, 2018
In October 1987, when George H.W. Bush announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States, Newsweek magazine ran a cover story titled "Fighting the ‘Wimp Factor.'" The article did not quite come out and declare that Bush was a weakling, and it noted that Bush's own advisers were worried about the "wimp" label. As the 41st president, Bush was anything but a wimp. In 1991, he had the courage to abandon his own "read my lips" vow and instead raise taxes in the cause of restoring fiscal sanity to the federal budget, left badly out of whack by his predecessor, Ronald Reagan.
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Dec 01, 2018
George Herbert Walker Bush took the oath of office as the United States' 41st president on January 20, 1989, and was the oldest living former commander in chief. Before getting the keys to the White House, he served eight years as the vice president of Republican icon Ronald Reagan. George H. W. Bush died at the age of 94 on November 30, 2018.
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Nov 30, 2018
The accountant, who has been penalized for failing to file tax returns for his own business, has created a paper trail with notable errors in his work for those groups, according to public records reviewed by Yahoo News.
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Nov 30, 2018
The president's Twitter messages belie a very tough week in the special counsel's investigation into his campaign's ties with Russia.
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Nov 30, 2018
On the ground in Juarez, where migrants seeking asylum are given a number - written on their arms - and sent away to wait.
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Nov 30, 2018
A powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday shook buildings, collapsed roads and triggered at least nine aftershocks — producing a lot of dramatic photos and footage.
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Nov 30, 2018
Former Trump presidential campaign manager Corey Lewandowski called Michael Cohen a "serial liar" who had "nothing to do with the campaign," a description contradicted by multiple sources.
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Nov 30, 2018
Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva does not yet have his gavel, but that's not stopping the Arizona Democrat, who is expected to head the House Natural Resources Committee come January, from informing scandal-plagued Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke that his days as a member of the Trump administration are numbered. In an op-ed published by USA Today on Friday, Grijalva called on Zinke to resign over his "ethical and managerial failings." Grijalva cited the more than a dozen ongoing investigations into Zinke's behavior, the most damaging of which involves a land deal with a Halliburton executive in Zinke's native Montana.
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Nov 30, 2018
Diplomats from the Group of 20 countries were haggling hard over a final summit statement Friday, with deep divisions over what language to use on the Paris climate accord and the World Trade Organization, according to two European officials involved in the discussions. Leaders of the United States, Canada and Mexico met in the morning to sign a trade deal replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement that was struck following months of tough negotiations that analysts say left a bitter taste among the partners.
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Nov 30, 2018
The Polish government is defending a surveillance law that human rights advocates and climate champions fear could stymie the success of COP24.
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Nov 29, 2018
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into President Trump's efforts to build a skyscraper in Moscow has led him to ask questions about the role two of the president's children played in attempting to secure a Russian real estate deal, sources told Yahoo News.
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Nov 29, 2018
Billionaire Tom Steyer, whose "Need to Impeach" drive has attracted more than 6 million signatures, has put out a manifesto with "Five Rights" that he says should form the basis for a platform for the Democratic Party.
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Nov 29, 2018
Nearly two-thirds of Republicans — 64 percent — acknowledged that the world's climate is changing in a new poll from Monmouth University.
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Nov 29, 2018
The president on Thursday called Michael Cohen a "weak person" after his former personal attorney and long-time fixer reached a plea agreement with special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Nov 29, 2018
President Donald Trump led a countdown for the lighting of the National Christmas Tree on Wednesday, and first lady Melania Trump hit the switch to illuminate the decked-out spruce in President's Park, just south of the White House.
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Nov 29, 2018
A few of the Democratic Party's young stars in the House took on Nancy Pelosi this week and proved mainly that none of them have anything like the political acumen to replace her.
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Nov 28, 2018
The First Step Act poses a unique challenge for the Senate majority leader.
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Nov 28, 2018
President Trump, who usually composes his own Twitter diatribes, relied on fan accounts and supporters Wednesday morning to attack Hillary Clinton, General Motors, Robert Mueller's investigation and the migrant caravans.
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Nov 28, 2018
Native American, Korean American and Muslim women all won seats in Congress, along with many other firsts. But old-fashioned identity politics is giving way to a broader appeal to diversity.
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Nov 27, 2018
Appointed U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., with President Donald Trump, speaks during a rally Monday, Nov. 26, 2018, in Biloxi, Miss. Trump encouraged voters to support Hyde-Smith's runoff race against Democrat Mike Espy. JACKSON, Miss.—In the last major race of the midterm campaign, Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith claimed victory in Mississippi's closely watched Senate runoff election, defeating Democrat Mike Espy after a tense campaign rocked by unsettling reminders of the state's dark history with racism.
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Nov 27, 2018
Robert Stryk, chairman of Sonoran Policy Group, confirmed that the company hired Kirsten Fontenrose, who recently resigned from her White House position.
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Nov 27, 2018
The National Climate Assessment might not stop President Trump from dismissing climate science, but it will make his deregulation agenda harder to defend in court.
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Nov 27, 2018
Louis Farrakhan is in the news again, because of links to some of the leaders of the Women's March, which is planning a reprise in January of the 2017 event that helped kick off the resistance to Donald Trump.
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Nov 27, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2018 White House holiday decor features a theme of "American Treasures."
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Nov 27, 2018
Bryan Keeley said he wants to believe it, but he's heard talk like that before. Keeley is one of the thousands of workers at GM's Lordstown factory near Youngstown who learned that the plant is being idled in March, with no new production promised.
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