11.14am EST11:14 A lot of people want to work for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. There were some 5,500 applicants for jobs in her Congressional office, the Washington Post reports. Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) ‘Here’s the system, it sucks:’ Meet the...
Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe has said top Trump administration officials talked seriously about removing Donald Trump from office just months after he become president. McCabe, who briefly ran the FBI after Trump fired James Comey as th...
The Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar had a heated exchange with the Trump administration’s special envoy to Venezuela over his record in Latin America. The Minnesota representative pressed Elliott Abrams – a former Reagan administration official...
Donald Trump and potential presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke held rallies in El Paso, Texas, on Monday night offering their contrasting views on Trump's US-Mexico border wall. The president addressed his crowd in front of a big US flag along with...
Donald Trump's pursuit of a border wall continued as he spoke at a rally in El Paso, Texas. Banners reading 'Finish the wall' lined the El Paso County Coliseum as the president spoke of how Democrats wanted to propose measures that would 'release o...
Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota has joined the crowded field of Democratic candidates for 2020 that includes a historic number of women seeking the presidency. The three-term senator, who is often characterised as “Minnesota nice” amid the rough-...
On a cold, blustery January day in 1912, immigrant women walked out of the Everett Mill in the Massachusetts factory town of Lawrence demanding higher wages and better working conditions. Mill owners and city government responded in a swift and heav...
Trump Winery, also known as Trump Vineyard Estates, LLC, is seeking the workers under the federal H-2 visa program, which allows US employers to hire foreign laborers on a temporary basis as long as no qualified US workers want the jobs. The work on...
Kamala Harris drew a bigger crowd at her presidential campaign launch in Oakland than Barack Obama did when he launched his run for president in Illinois in 2007. At least 20,000 people turned up to hear the California senator outline her plan for w...
Good morning. Donald Trump is meeting with the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus at the White House today as the partial government shutdown continues, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced she’d be exploring a presidential bid last night and the con...
Saudi Arabia has strongly rebuked the US Senate, accusing senators of unwarranted interference in the country’s internal affairs for claiming that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was behind the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi....
A Russian disinformation campaign used every social media platform to spread messages to help Donald Trump in the 2016 election and after he took office, according to a new report prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee. The report is schedul...
After a final stretch on foot along a dirt road through high desert, a father and his young daughter crossed into the United States at the end of a 2,000-mile journey through Mexico. It was after dark and they were part of a group of 163 people, app...
A top aide to Donald Trump insisted on Sunday that the administration is prepared to shut down the government in order to get the funding it demands to build a long-promised wall on the US-Mexico border. Democrats, in response, flatly refused to shi...
Inside a little-known bulwark of conservative state policy, in a hotel conference room in Washington DC, state lawmakers and corporate lobbyists last week voted for a slate of anti-environment measures. They approved resolutions supporting strippin...