The Latest Breaking News on US Politics

A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.

Biden-era Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday blasted what he called President Donald Trump's party-driven government shutdown, arguing it is "hurting Americans in countless ways already" as key consumer, health and social services slow or stall.

Trump's threat to invoke the Insurrection Act sparks debate over deploying US troops on American streets and the limits of presidential power.

The US Supreme Court upheld Ghislaine Maxwell's 20-year sentence for recruiting and grooming teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein, rejecting her last appeal.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a Chicago native, on Monday echoed Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's alarm over President Donald Trump's plan to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Chicago and other cities, calling the move an "outrageous assault on Illinois and Oregon" and invoking the GOP's own rhetoric on…

President Donald Trump said Monday he was considering invoking the Insurrection Act to justify deploying federal troops to Portland, Oregon, after a federal court temporarily blocked his efforts to send National Guard forces into the city.

Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci criticized President Donald Trump’s trade and tariff policies, blaming them for rising inflation, along with the slowdown in business and consumer demand.

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

The president threatened the use of emergency powers after a federal judge temporarily halted national guard deployment in Portland. Key US politics stories from 6 October at a glance

Ohio gubernatorial candidate sees "fork in the road" for conservatives and wants Republicans to be less confrontational.

"Aren't we all against convicted pedophiles and anyone who enables them?"