The latest campaign finance reports show Democratic enthusiasm in key House and Senate races, but national Republican groups have far more in the bank to potentially spend down the road.
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After a historic partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, Congressional Republicans are looking to a budgetary tool called reconciliation which could enable them to fund immigration enforcement agencies without any Democratic support.
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A $110B deal for Warner Bros. heads to a shareholder vote. Paramount promises 30 films a year if approved; critics warn it could shrink jobs, voices and competition.
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Who will replace U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres when he steps down this year? Four candidates field questions from member states this week at U.N. headquarters.
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In Russia, expanding state restrictions on the Internet are frustrating daily life for millions — and sending President Putin's approval ratings on a rare downward spiral.
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Istanbul plants millions of tulips every spring, a reminder of the flower's origins far from the Netherlands.
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Taking advantage of the electoral defeat of Hungary's Viktor Orban, European Union countries have moved to approve a $100 billion loan to Ukraine.
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President Trump's Department of Justice sent a plane this week to Cuba to return a 10-year-old from Utah who is at the center of a custody fight involving the child's gender identity.
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The leak occurred at the Catalyst Refiners plant, a silver recovery business. An emergency management official says workers were preparing to shut down at least part of the facility when the leak occurred, causing a chemical gas reaction.
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Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said John Phelan, the Navy's top civilian official, was "departing the administration, effective immediately." Navy Undersecretary Hung Cao will become acting secretary of the Navy.