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Admiral Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command, acknowledged the difficulty of the carrier's nearly nine-month deployment but said mental health issues were lower than on other vessels.

The new head of the Justice Department said on "Meet the Press" on Sunday that the president had never asked him to prosecute specific people -- and never would.

Not all progressives are equal: Candidates of the activist left typically don't perform as well as other Democrats.

A new film depicts the 1986 nuclear arms summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, which both offered and dashed hopes of a dramatic breakthrough.

A string of primary wins by progressive candidates has revealed the strength of a high-energy insurgent movement but also its potential limitations.

Brandon Herrera, long an anti-establishment outsider, is trying to help the party defend a red-leaning House district in West Texas. It's proving messy.

The administration is veering wildly in its response to the national security implications of A.I. as China, America's main technological and military rival, charges ahead.

The party's membership finalized the new order for the first six states to winnow the candidate field, pushing back Iowa and New Hampshire.

Asian allies are beginning to wonder whether the United States would or could defend them in a war.

The U.S. attorney in Chicago subpoenaed a fund-raising firm that had been co-owned by the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, who conducted the trial that led to Donald Trump's felony conviction.