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Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) says an investigation into domestic abuse allegations would find him innocent.

If you've been waiting to explore the world of virtual reality, now may be the time.

President Trump says he has a plan for peace in the Middle East, and he's finally revealed a glimpse of what it might look like.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) stepped into the fray to defend Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh against sexual misconduct allegations that emerged Wednesday.

After a third woman accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct Wednesday, President Trump weighed in to note that everything is actually totally fine.

Andrew Gillum is on track to become Florida's next governor.

A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows that the Tallahassee mayor, who unexpectedly won the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary last month, is 9 points ahead of Republican challenger Rep. Ron DeSantis. Support for the candidates is pretty staunchly divided along party lines, but independents are strongly in Gillum's favor, 56 percent to DeSantis' 40 percent.

Gillum, a progressive Democrat with Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) endorsement... Читать дальше...

A third woman has come forward to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, and President Trump-foe Michael Avenatti has her back.

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are demanding President Trump take action after a third woman accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) took to the Senate floor on Wednesday decry the "toxic culture" that has engulfed the hearing process for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

A third woman, Julie Swetnick, came forward on Wednesday to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. She submitted a sworn affidavit, meaning if she knowingly falsified any of the information included in her allegations, she could be found guilty of perjury, which is a felony.

Prepared remarks released Wednesday show that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh plans to maintain his unequivocal denial of the sexual misconduct allegations against him.

United Nations ambassadors were definitely laughing with President Trump, not at him, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley insists.

President Trump on Wednesday accused the Chinese government of actively trying to interfere in the midterm elections.

A woman who socialized with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in high school alleged Wednesday that Kavanaugh engaged in "abusive and physically aggressive behavior" while drunk.

21st Century Fox announced Wednesday it will sell its remaining stake in U.K. broadcaster Sky to Comcast, CNBC reports. The transaction will be worth about $15 billion.

More Democratic women are running for House seats this fall than ever before, but the money they've raised doesn't exactly show it.

The second woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct is also ready to testify.

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says he "never sexually assaulted anyone," and says he's got calendars to prove it.

As Christine Blasey Ford prepares to testify this week that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school, a new poll suggests many Republicans don't care whether she's telling the truth or not.

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Economists, fund managers, and strategists surveyed by CNBC expect the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates two more times this year, starting on Wednesday at the close of a two-day meeting of Fed policy makers. Ninety-eight percent of the 46 respondents in the latest CNBC Fed Survey predicted a quarter-point hike on Wednesday, with 96 percent forecasting another quarter-point increase in December as the Fed tries to prevent a strengthening economy from overhearing. "Fed funds increases... Читать дальше...

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's job may be safe for at least a few more weeks.

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President Trump aggressively defended his "America first" foreign policy in his second annual speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. Trump said he had made progress against many of the threats he named last year in his first U.N. speech, such as North Korea and Islamist extremist terrorism, and boasted that the U.S. military is "more powerful than it has ever been before." He also cited the strength of the U.S. economy as a sign of his success, and claimed that his... Читать дальше...

There was some liberal Sturm und Drang when The New York Times hired conservative Wall Street Journal editorialist Bret Stephens for its op-ed stable. But it would be hard to find a liberal columnist with a more damning indictment of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) than the one Stephens meted out Tuesday. Stephens said he shared colleague Gail Collins' enthusiasm for the Texas Senate race for a couple of reasons: "Small reasons: I like Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic challenger, and I like the idea that... Читать дальше...

In about five years, the U.S. federal government could starting spending more in interest on its debt than on the military — which accounts for more than half of discretionary spending — or domestic programs like Medicaid, The New York Times reports, citing Congressional Budget Office projections. "The run-up in borrowing costs is a one-two punch brought on by the need to finance a fast-growing budget deficit, worsened by tax cuts and steadily rising interest rates that will make the debt more expensive," the Times explains. Читать дальше...

Ten years ago today, the world financial system was in the grips of galloping panic. The investment bank Lehman Brothers had failed, and the world's largest insurer, AIG, had just been saved by the government buying it outright. Congress was debating a bill that would become the notorious TARP bank bailout.