The Senate proposal would require lawmakers to use their own money to pay settlements if they're found to have sexually harassed an employee.Sens. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said Tuesday their agreement will include provisions [...]

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says she is unaware of intelligence assessments concluding that Russia favored Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. The U.S. intelligence community said in a January 2017 assessment[...]

Democrats and Republicans struck drastically different tones about their confidence in federal agencies’ efforts to secure voting systems and stamp out foreign state-sponsored influence campaigns ahead of the 2018 midterms after a classified meeting [...]

Should Democrats nominate a candidate based on their record of standing up for progressive values, or their vision for the future? And should the party court white moderates to implement that vision, or expand the electorate by exciting millennials[...]

Of all the races in Tuesday’s Georgia primary, the hotly contested matchup for governor is most likely to influence strategy for both parties going into the 2020 presidential election. Five GOP candidates are vying to fill the shoes of outgoing Gov. [...]

Voters will head to the polls on Tuesday for another slate of primaries. Primary season is well underway, and this week voters head to the polls in Arkansas, Georgia, and Kentucky. Texas will host more than 30 runoff elections for the top two[...]

22 states have never had a female governor. This year, a bunch of women are running to change that, including Stacey Abrams, who would be the nation's first African American woman to lead a state.Load[...]

Democratic strategists fear a pending catastrophe in California, where so many Democrats are running for Republican-held House seats that they’re threatening to box the party out of general election races. Now Democrats are spending precious[...]

Momentum and excitement in the Democratic Party is building on the left, a development that could benefit progressive candidates such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in 2020. The upset win in Nebraska by Kara Eastman[...]

Amy Schumer and Susan Sarandon have thrown their money behind the Democratic candidate in Kentucky challenging county clerk Kim Davis, who previously denied her opponent a marriage license because he and his partner are gay.Schumer gave $1,500 to[...]

Democrats are now employing a familiar rallying cry that helped define President Trump's presidential campaign, a combative messaging shift ahead of what analysts say will be a bruising midterm election season. Expect to hear Democrats urging[...]

Democrats in central Arkansas will choose the party's nominee for a Republican-held U.S. House seat the party believes it has a chance to reclaim this fall, while a state Supreme Court justice is seeking re-election in a campaign that's marked[...]

President Donald Trump has long been an unlikely sweetheart for conservative and evangelical voters. Now, in the lead-up to the midterm elections, the thrice-married former Democrat who used to describe himself as "very pro-choice" is[...]

Former Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday urged Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI officials to "simply say no" to President Trump's demand for an expanded investigation into his claims of FBI wrongdoing as it relates to his[...]

The president escalated his campaign to undermine the Justice Department’s traditional independence from White House interference.WASHINGTON — When President Trump publicly demanded that the Justice Department open an investigation into the F.B.I.’s [...]