David Nakamura

The Georgia law imposes new limits on the use of absentee ballots, makes it a crime for outside groups to provide food and water to voters waiting at polling stations, and hands greater control over election administration to the state legislature.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said the federal “pattern or practice” probe will seek to determine whether the Louisville police have engaged in a history of abusive and unlawful tactics with little accountability

The president has contradicted the government's top health experts, played down the severity of the deadly pathogen, deflected blame for the high death rate in the U.S. and pushed to reopen businesses and public schools.

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have focused on battleground states crucial to their reelection chances.

Recent actions set off new alarm bells among legal analysts and Trump’s political rivals, who warned that the White House believes it can ignore the safeguards built into the nation’s political system.

The parents of the American college student who died after being detained for 17 months have directly blamed the North Korea leader Kim Jong Un for their son’s death a day after President Trump said he believed Kim’s account that he was not responsible.

The United States joined a controversial proposal by Saudi Arabia and Russia this weekend to weaken a reference to a key report on the severity of global warming, sharpening battle lines at the global climate summit in Poland.

President Donald Trump said Thursday he intends to take executive action next week to end the “abuse” of the U.S. asylum system.

In the first moments of the speech, Trump declared he had made more progress than “almost any other administration in the history of our country” - prompting audible laughs in the cavernous U.N. chamber. A startled-looking Trump appeared thrown off-balance for a moment.

The president plans to use a United Nations forum to demand other nations respect American “sovereignty” at a time of uncertainty over U.S. strategy.

Sen. Ted Cruz scored a hard-fought upset win over businessman Donald Trump in the Iowa Republican caucuses Monday night, while former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders were locked in a virtual tie on the Democratic side.

Obama has promised a speech that cuts through the "day-to-day noise of Washington" and celebrates America's capacity "to come together as one American family." Instead of a to-do list of policy proposals he has plans to deliver a speech that will describe "who we are" as a nation.

President Obama vowed Friday "to go after any terrorist networks that go after our people" after gruesome attacks in Paris jolted the White House just as Obama was preparing to rally world leaders behind his latest plans to combat radical Islamist fighters.

When President Barack Obama makes his first extended trip to sub-Saharan Africa this month, the federal agencies charged with keeping him safe won't be taking any chances.