Politics

A Secret Service special agent protecting U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen opened fire early Tuesday on people who were suspected to be trying to break into cars, authorities say.

The Senate voted Monday to approve the promotion of a general who oversaw troops during the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul, Afghanistan, after it had been blocked by a Republican senator.

President-elect Donald Trump will attend the reopening celebration for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this weekend, his first foreign trip since the election.

Victor Willis said the disco classic has “benefited greatly” from the president-elect’s use and threatened to sue news outlets that refer to it as a “gay anthem.”

Special counsel David Weiss’ office on Monday appeared to push back against President Joe Biden’s claim that its prosecutions of Hunter Biden were politically motivated, calling such allegations “baseless.”

The first lady welcomed National Guard families to the White House on Monday to be among the first members of the public to see the decorations.

Corporations are pulling out of the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index just a few years after celebrating their contributions to LGBTQ+ inclusion.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, on Friday raised concerns about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Crypto legislation should make its way through Congress “fairly quickly” after Donald Trump’s election win, according to Coinbase’s chief policy officer.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers will return to the state Capitol on Monday to begin a special session to protect the state’s progressive policies ahead of another Trump presidency.

President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he was pardoning his son Hunter Biden, who faced sentencing later this month in two federal cases.

GOP lawmakers began publicly fuming shortly after President Joe Biden announced that he was pardoning his son Hunter Biden.

Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Sunday night, a reversal for the president, who repeatedly said he would not use his executive authority to pardon his son or commute his sentence.