The Russian government, at the behest of Russian President Vladimir Putin, waged a sustained influence operation in the United States in support of Donald Trump's campaign for president. Major questions remain about the degree of interaction between ...

Just four weeks after Donald Trump stood beside a table stacked high with papers trumpeting his plan to separate himself from his business empire, the president and his family and advisers have not made much effort to truly split their business ...

A war is brewing among Donald Trump's advisers over how to deal with Russia and Vladimir Putin — and his team is trying to keep it from breaking out into the open. As the president-elect's top national security picks prepare to testify before Congress ...

ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson has pressed for greater use of fossil fuels. He's called climate change an "engineering problem," and dismissed doomsday scenarios about global warming. And his company faces allegations it suppressed decades-old internal ...

A day after Donald Trump's election to the presidency, campaign divisions appeared to widen as many thousands of demonstrators — some with signs with messages declaring "NOT MY PRESIDENT" — flooded streets across the country to protest his ...

She wasn't always like this. She wasn't always a woman who could almost collapse in public, then emerge from seclusion a couple of hours later announcing, “I'm feeing great,” as if nothing had happened, as if she hadn't already known for two days that ...

Donald Trump's newfound commitment to message discipline and restraint showed some cracks on Thursday, with the Republican nominee attacking an African-American pastor who cut off his political speech in a Flint, Michigan, church. "Well, I was in Flint ...

Donald Trump's newfound commitment to message discipline and restraint showed some cracks on Thursday, with the Republican nominee attacking an African-American pastor who cut off his political speech in a Flint, Michigan, church. "Well, I was in Flint ...

With Ellen Mitchell and Connor O'Brien. SYRIAN CEASE-FIRE TAKES EFFECT — AND IS QUICKLY VIOLATED, The New York Times has more here on the fragile agreement: “A cease-fire in the Syrian civil war, negotiated by Russia and the United States, ...

With his new offensive against Islamic State terrorists in Syria, Barack Obama has a chance to revive his presidency, but the only way he can do that is to become a brand-new president, one who will be almost unrecognizable to his supporters. Obama must ...

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Monday that President Barack Obama is hoping for Congress to “buy-in” to his plans moving forward in response to threats posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. “As a general matter, what I can say ...

The Pentagon is considering sending about 300 more troops to Iraq to enhance security for State Department facilities in Baghdad, a U.S. official told POLITICO Wednesday, bringing the total number of uniformed Americans there to about 1,000. A decision is ...

An operation to evacuate besieged Iraqi Yazidis “is far less likely” thanks to the effects of humanitarian aid and airstrikes, the Pentagon said this evening. Defense officials reached that conclusion after about 20 U.S. troops and aid workers flew today to Mount ...

When rebel crosshairs fixed on Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 30,000 feet above the sunflowers of Eastern Ukraine, they had no idea what they were about to blow up. No clue they were about to incinerate hundreds of Dutch holidaymakers. None whatsoever ...

Microsoft's massive layoffs have hit the company's Washington policy office. Five policy and government relations staffers were let go in a restructuring process that hit both Microsoft and its subsidiary Nokia. Continue Reading ...

Microsoft's massive layoffs have hit the company's Washington policy office. Five policy and government relations staffers were let go in a restructuring process that hit both Microsoft and its subsidiary Nokia. Continue Reading ...

Microsoft's massive layoffs have hit the company's Washington policy office. Five policy and government relations staffers were let go in a restructuring process that hit both Microsoft and its subsidiary Nokia. Continue Reading ...

JACKSON, MISS. — Democrats were crossing their fingers that Chris McDaniel would be the Republican nominee in Mississippi. But since Sen. Thad Cochran has prevailed, they are trying to do the unthinkable — unseat a six-term GOP senator. Continue ...

Chris McDaniel is preserving his right to challenge his loss in Tuesday's Mississippi GOP Senate runoff. “In the coming days, our team will look into the irregularities to determine whether a challenge is warranted,” McDaniel said in a statement late today.

The military moves on Iraq announced Thursday by President Barack Obama are aimed at getting a coherent picture of what's happening there, officials said — not to quickly turn the tide against the Islamic extremists who have swept across the country.