The Supreme Court is beginning a new term on Monday with a blockbuster docket of cases touching on civil rights, free speech, presidential power, redistricting and privacy rights.
Republicans are set to take their first legislative steps this week to advance tax reform, days after the clock ran out for plans to fulfill their pledge to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
Football players were largely united in their response to the national anthem at Sunday NFL games for the second week following the controversy stirred by President Trump over players who kneel in protest during "The Star Spangled Banner."
President Trump on Sunday dedicated a golf trophy to the victims of recent powerful storms that tore through Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, all the while defending the government's response to the disasters.
Republicans have hammered Democrats over ObamaCare for the better half of a decade, riding promises to repeal the law into majorities in both the House and Senate.
President Trump on Sunday rejected the idea of negotiating with the North Korean regime, in the process seeming to undermine his own secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, who earlier in the weekend said Washington was in direct talks with Pyongyang.
Senators from both parties increasingly worried about North Korea's nuclear weapons program are talking about bypassing President Trump and hitting the country with sanctions on their own.
Sen. Bob Corker is not backing down from his comments over the summer that President Donald Trump had not shown some of the competence or stability needed to be successful.
A trial of the suspected mastermind of the 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attacks will unfold this week in a federal courtroom in Washington, three years after he was captured by U.S. special forces in Libya and brought to the U.S. on a 13-day trip aboard a Navy ship.
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