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A former senior budget official for Connecticut's Democratic governor is now a fugitive in Greece after fleeing the U.S. by boat and plane ahead of his sentencing for corruption, his lawyer and prosecutors told a federal judge on Thursday.

Democratic lawmakers and allied advocacy groups are promising aggressive oversight of the Trump Justice Department, presidential pardons and executive overreach if Democrats reclaim congressional majorities in the midterm elections.

President Trump has embraced the Iran war as part of his midterm national-security pitch, but Republicans are not following his lead.

President Trump said Thursday that "major progress" has been made toward establishing a permanent military base in Poland and that a location could be announced "very soon."

Pop singer ZARA LARSSON criticizes White House for using her song in a video: "You guys are such f-----g losers. Like, it's crazy."

Congress' most serious attempt to regulate college sports passed a procedural hurdle Thursday, paving the way for a vote on the bill next week.

The top House Democrat on Thursday vowed to effectively end the Trump presidency if Democrats win control of the chamber in the midterms -- an outcome Democrats are increasingly confident about.

Former U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl, a longtime Republican lawmaker from Arizona who shaped landmark water policies in the U.S. West and guided the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, has died. He was 84.

Christian Castro, the ICE officer whom authorities have accused of assaulting a migrant and lying about it, has been taken into custody in Minnesota.

A federal appeals court panel on Thursday was considering an attempt to resurrect new Missouri congressional districts backed by President Donald Trump, even though the U.S. Supreme Court blocked those districts from being used in the November ...