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Nov 14, 2018
The man stood outside the Broward County Supervisor of Elections office, holding a Betsy Ross version of the American flag and wondering out loud whether to go to his car and get his gun. "They're telling me they're going to kick my cracker ass," said Ryan Farley, a self-employed construction worker who was protesting against what he believes were Democratic attempts to steal the election, despite the lack of any evidence of this occurring. Farley, who is white, told Yahoo News he had become engaged in a series of back-and-forth insults with a group of five or six African-American men who worked inside the elections office and were sitting outside while on break.
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Nov 14, 2018
Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean was pleased with the party's performance in last week's midterm elections — and not just because it regained control of the House.
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Nov 13, 2018
Cory Booker had two words when asked if he wants the legislation to have a floor vote: "Heck, yeah. "
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Nov 13, 2018
"I think that Stacey Abrams's election is being stolen from her, using what I think are insidious measures to disenfranchise certain groups of people," Booker said.
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Nov 13, 2018
The filmmakers behind "The Front Runner" discussed the importance of former Sen. Gary Hart's unsuccessful 1988 presidential campaign after a screening Monday.
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Nov 13, 2018
"Right now, … this is those wonderful moments in Washington where we should be able to come together and get good work done before we start balkanizing ourselves for presidential ambitions," Booker said.
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Nov 13, 2018
News that several senior officials in the Trump administration were set to be fired rocked the White House on Tuesday. President Trump is said to be considering replacing his chief of staff, John Kelly, according to a Wall Street Journal report published on Tuesday. The Journal reported the move would be part of a larger "shake-up" that would begin with the removal of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
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Nov 13, 2018
Brenda Snipes has been found at fault in a number of disputes over her handling of elections over the past few years, exasperating both Republicans and Democrats in the state.
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Nov 13, 2018
President Trump lashed out at France on Twitter Tuesday, chastising French President Emmanuel Macron for denouncing nationalism.
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Nov 13, 2018
The Army's top civilian leader has proposed shutting down the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, which has played a large role in preparing the military and civilians to work in regions recovering from war.
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Nov 12, 2018
Broward County officials have been working around the clock to complete a recount of the races for governor and U.S. Senate.
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Nov 12, 2018
President Trump on Monday suggested that the ongoing recounts in Florida should be halted and the races called for Republican candidates while floating baseless claims of voter fraud.
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Nov 11, 2018
New York City hosted its annual Veterans Day Parade, the largest celebration of service in the nation, on Nov. 11. "America's Parade" featured more than 20,000 participants, with 300 marching bands, floats, veterans' groups and military units. Medal of Honor recipient Florent Groberg (U.S. Army, Afghanistan) was this year's grand marshal.
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Nov 11, 2018
Over a year after an airstrike killed Buthaina's immediate family, remaining relatives are accusing Saudi authorities of kidnapping the girl in a bid to hide a powerful symbol of the war in Yemen.
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Nov 11, 2018
Hong Kong official Patrick Ho was indicted on foreign bribery and money-laundering charges, but the probe into Ho, his nonprofit and the U.N. wasn't about just corruption.
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Nov 10, 2018
The existence of the new classified operation, code-named Yukon Journey, was partially revealed in a Defense Department inspector general report posted online earlier this month.
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Nov 10, 2018
President Donald Trump paid tribute Sunday to U.S. and allied soldiers killed in World War I as he and dozens of other world leaders commemorated the 100th anniversary of the end of "a horrible, horrible war" that marked America's emergence as a world power.
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Nov 09, 2018
As votes continue to be counted, Democrats are inching toward solidifying their control of the House with a pickup of as many as 40 seats, while Republican Senate wins in Arizona and Florida are looking less solid.
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Nov 09, 2018
President Trump's latest executive action, which seeks to limit the ability of migrants to apply for asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, was met with widespread criticism Friday from legal experts, human rights advocates and some members of Congress, who described it as not just discriminatory and inhumane, but also illegal under both U.S. and international law.
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Nov 09, 2018
"People are looking too much at what got flipped and not at long-term directional trends," said Jessica Alter of Tech for Campaigns, which connects tech and campaign experts with candidates.
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Nov 09, 2018
President Trump on Friday said he did not know Mark Whitaker before appointing him acting attorney general, despite saying he did less than a month ago.
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Nov 09, 2018
Republicans cry foul over changing vote totals in Broward and Palm Beach counties, while Democrats demand all ballots be counted.
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Nov 09, 2018
U.S. progressive groups staged hundreds of protests nationwide on Thursday evening to demand that President Trump do nothing to hinder an ongoing investigation into his campaign and Russian meddling during the 2016 U.S. election. The protests, operating under the banner "Nobody Is Above the Law" and led by the activist group MoveOn, called for people to gather in cities at 5 p.m. on Thursday in an effort to protect the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. The action was spurred by Trump's move on Wednesday to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Sessions's chief of staff, Matt Whitaker, as acting attorney general.
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Nov 09, 2018
In her upcoming memoir, Michelle Obama writes that she will "never forgive" President Trump for pushing the so-called birther conspiracy that she believes put her family's safety at risk.
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Nov 09, 2018
Robert Gaafar, who survived last year's Route 91 Harvest massacre, is reliving seering memories after this week's mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
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Nov 09, 2018
Of all the Democrats who could play a part in the looming drama of the next presidential campaign, the raspy, rumpled Ohio populist emerged from Election Day with the most to brag about.
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Nov 08, 2018
After Wednesday's abrupt post-election firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, there are mounting questions about the legal landscape surrounding President Trump and special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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Nov 08, 2018
The Justice Department and the Homeland Security Department released the text of an interim regulation Thursday afternoon outlining new restrictions on asylum that will be the subject of a presidential proclamation expected to be issued by the White House on Friday.
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Nov 08, 2018
Gov. Rick Scott and former Rep. Ron DeSantis hold leads in their respective races that have been shrinking since Election Day.
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Nov 08, 2018
Jason Coffman, who was desperately searching for his son, Cody, in the hours after the deadly mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif., received the heartbreaking news on Thursday that the 22-year-old was among the victims of the massacre.
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Nov 08, 2018
The abortion rights movement in the United States is finding much to celebrate in the midterm elections, though activists concede that victory is relative in this political landscape.
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Nov 08, 2018
Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean's last major effort before retiring on Friday is giving information about the shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
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Nov 08, 2018
A mass shooting inside a crowded Southern California bar late Wednesday left at least 13 people dead, including a sheriff's sergeant and the gunman, police say.
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Nov 08, 2018
In most polling, the percentage of voters who listed health care as their most important issue was twice that of those who said immigration was their greatest concern.
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Nov 07, 2018
Republican Brian Kemp claimed victory Wednesday in the Georgia governor's race, but the campaign of Democrat Stacey Abrams insisted that not all votes have been counted.
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Nov 07, 2018
By any historical measure, the Democrats had a pretty great night Tuesday, and the president's party did not.
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Nov 07, 2018
Rep. Richard Neal says that Democrats will request the president's tax returns, despite their being under audit by the Internal Revenue Service.
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Nov 07, 2018
Kris Kobach? Jeanine Pirro? John Cornyn? What about Rudy Giuliani?
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Nov 07, 2018
In op-eds and interviews, new acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker expressed his criticisms of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe and laid out a plan to stymie it.
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Nov 07, 2018
Even as Republicans won statewide races to expand their margin of control in the Senate, voters in traditionally conservative states — and some states where Democrats performed statewide, like Michigan — approved ballot initiatives that advanced a progressive agenda.
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Nov 07, 2018
Normally, Democrats win midterms by rallying voters who are new or vote only in presidential years. But on Tuesday, Republicans stayed ahead — in conservative states at least — by mobilizing their own unreliable voters.
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Nov 07, 2018
Democrats in Congress are being encouraged by the party's left wing to hammer the Trump administration. But to keep their majority, they will need to address issues that more directly affect the American people.
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Nov 07, 2018
President Donald Trump abruptly announced on Twitter Wednesday that Jeff Sessions is no longer the U.S. attorney general.
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Nov 07, 2018
The president angrily denies making racist remarks.
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Nov 07, 2018
President Trump on Wednesday cut off a reporter who dared to ask whether describing himself as a "nationalist" on the campaign trail had emboldened white nationalists.
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Nov 07, 2018
President Trump defended his characterization of migrant caravans from Central America as an "invasion" during a heated press conference following the midterm elections Wednesday.
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Nov 07, 2018
Democrats took six state legislative chambers from Republicans on Tuesday night.
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Nov 07, 2018
The president has a heated exchange with the man his supporters love to hate.
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Nov 07, 2018
President Trump said Republicans "defied history" in the midterm elections by maintaining control of the Senate and winning a "slew" of governor's races — despite losing its majority in the House of Representatives.
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Nov 07, 2018
There are political benefits for the White House in raising the specter of Chinese meddling, but there are also legitimate concerns about Beijing's activities, even if they didn't rise to the level of election interference.
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Apr 23, 2018
The mentally unstable gunman suspected of opening fire at a Waffle House restaurant in the middle of the night was arrested not far from his apartment Monday after hiding from police for more than a day following the attack that killed four people, authorities said.
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Apr 23, 2018
The driver suspected of killing 10 people and injuring 15 others when he ploughed a rental van into pedestrians in Toronto will make his first court appearance on Tuesday when details of a motive for the attack were expected to emerge.
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Apr 23, 2018
Israelis cheered when President Trump said the U.S. recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Now prominent Israelis are comparing the American president to the ancient Persian emperor Cyrus the Great, a hero to Jews who authorized building the Second Temple — raising the possibility of building the Third Temple in Jerusalem.
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Apr 23, 2018
Esther Roberts stands in her friend's field in Somers, Wis., which sits directly across the road from the massive Foxconn development site in Pleasant Prarie, WIs. At the moment when Esther Roberts decided to run for elected office, she was standing far from her home in Somers, Wisc., amid a sea of pink hats at the March for Women in Washington, D.C., in January 2017. Roberts is typical of the thousands of women who have entered the political arena in the past 18 months in the wake of Donald Trump's election.
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Apr 22, 2018
AP reports: A large explosion echoed across the city, shattering windows miles away from the attack site and damaging several nearby vehicles.
Five small children and 21 women are among the dead.
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility.
Afghanistan will hold parliamentary elections in October.
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Apr 22, 2018
President Trump pushed back against criticisms that North Korea has had to meet few preconditions before a planned summit between the president and Kim Jong Un. Trump said he may or may not be successful but that he's taking an important step that previous presidents should have taken long ago.
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Apr 22, 2018
An incident on the New York subway system Friday night, where a Hispanic man was reportedly berated for "taking jobs" from Americans, is being investigated by police as a possible hate crime.
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Apr 21, 2018
A number of analysts have been wondering aloud whether the loyalty of Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal lawyer, will pass the acid test of a federal indictment.
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Apr 21, 2018
Several former U.S. presidents were among the 1,500 mourners expected to gather at a Houston church on Saturday for the funeral of former first lady Barbara Bush, who died on Tuesday at the age of 92.
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Apr 21, 2018
In a series of early-morning tweets, President Trump attacks an article in the New York Times suggesting that his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, whose offices were raided last week by the FBI, might cooperate with investigators.
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Apr 20, 2018
According to memos by former FBI Director James Comey, Donald Trump disputed allegations about cavorting with prostitutes in Moscow by insisting that he didn't spend the night in Moscow during his 2013 trip. But the record clearly shows he did.
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Apr 20, 2018
Thousands of students walked out of classes across the United States on Friday, marking the 19th anniversary of the massacre at Columbine High School with a show of unity aimed at pressuring politicians to enact tighter gun restrictions.
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Apr 20, 2018
Dan Fried, the former State Department diplomat who oversaw sanctions policy, told the "Skullduggery" podcast that he was "extremely" frustrated when the Obama administration issued "weak" and "frankly inadequate" sanctions against Russia for interfering in the 2016 presidential election.
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Apr 19, 2018
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti tests the political waters in visit to Iowa.
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Apr 19, 2018
Ted Cruz wrote an essay for Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People of 2018" issue, praising President Trump, who the Texas senator once described as a "bully," "narcissist" and "serial philanderer."
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Apr 19, 2018
Join Yahoo News' Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Klaidman, and Chief Investigative Correspondent, Michael Isikoff, for a special live video taping of Skullduggery.
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Apr 19, 2018
Trump's trade policies may be helping some steel companies — and steelworkers — but China is threatening to retaliate with tariffs on American agricultural exports. Farmers in this Illinois town are worried about losing their market.
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Apr 19, 2018
It'll be a long time before we see another presidential field populated solely by career politicians. But that's not something we should necessarily fear.
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Apr 19, 2018
RZA, the spiritual leader of the Wu-Tang Clan, got a kick out of seeing two of his rap colleagues meet former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday.
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Apr 18, 2018
In the middle of an empty Manhattan church on a Wednesday afternoon sits Rev. Juan Carlos Ruíz, adjusting his priest collar. Every so often, you can hear coos and happy yells echoing off the church's old walls. Aura Hernández is one of those people.
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Apr 18, 2018
Fresno State University is distancing itself from an Arab-American professor who celebrated the death of former first lady Barbara Bush as it reviews the matter, school officials said Wednesday.
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Apr 18, 2018
Months after Memphis circumvented state law to take down two monuments, the Tennessee legislature voted to remove funding that would've gone to commemorating the city's bicentennial.
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Apr 18, 2018
Former President George W. Bush said on Monday that he has "always felt" the United States should be tough in countering Russian President Vladimir Putin's aggression.
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Apr 18, 2018
President Trump suggested on Wednesday that the man adult-film star Stormy Daniels says threatened her in a Las Vegas parking lot and warned her to stay silent about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump is "nonexistent."
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Apr 18, 2018
Since 2011, when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to thin its prison population, the state has taken several steps to increase educational opportunities for inmates — and it has achieved dramatic results.
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Apr 17, 2018
Within minutes of the news that former first lady Barbara Bush had died Tuesday at the age of 92, tributes began pouring in from political figures, including those in her own family.
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Apr 17, 2018
View photos of Barbara Bush through the years. The former first lady died on April 17 at age 92.
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Apr 17, 2018
While her husband was the linchpin of a multigenerational political dynasty, Barbara Bush, with her shock of white hair and trademark pearls, provided much of the steel in the family.
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Apr 17, 2018
FBI Director James Comey nearly called for a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton's email server in the spring of 2016 after Clinton's lawyers refused on the grounds of attorney-client privilege to turn over their laptops for examination by the bureau's agents.
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Apr 17, 2018
James Comey's book tour began in earnest on Tuesday with the former FBI director scheduled for no less than eight high-profile interviews to promote his much-anticipated memoir, "A Higher Loyalty," over the next three days.
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Apr 17, 2018
Over the last half-century, political power has devolved from party functionaries to ordinary citizens voting in primaries. That has made the system more democratic — but also more susceptible to manipulation by populist demagogues. Some political scientists think it's time to take another look.
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Apr 16, 2018
Stormy Daniels arrives at federal court in New York on Monday. NEW YORK — Even before Sean Hannity was named as the mystery "third client" of President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen, the hearing over how to handle the evidence FBI agents seized from Cohen's office and residences last week was a media circus, featuring the best-known adult actress in America and her omnipresent lawyer, fringe political candidates, and people who literally fell to the ground. Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for adult film star Stormy Daniels, was circling the federal district courthouse in Lower Manhattan, making as many as 10 circuits of the block.
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Apr 16, 2018
Michael Cohen's mysterious third client, whose identity he tried to keep secret, has been revealed as Fox News host Sean Hannity.
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Apr 16, 2018
The Trump administration is rescinding a rule that allows foreign entrepreneurs who start businesses in the U.S. to remain in the country for up to five years. One tech startup had to open a satellite office in Canada for one of its Indian-born founders. The issue shows the tension between the administration's anti-immigrant stance and its pro-business rhetoric.
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Apr 16, 2018
In a wide-ranging interview, former FBI Director James Comey elaborated on previous statements, offered new insights, and admitted that he made errors in judgment.
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Apr 15, 2018
Excerpts from former FBI Director James Comey's upcoming memoir, and from an interview Comey gave to ABC News, set off a Sunday-morning tweetstorm of accusations, corrections and annotations from President Trump, including the bizarre assertion that "I hardly even knew this guy."
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Apr 13, 2018
As reports broke Friday that President Trump had issued a pardon of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, the immediate questions for many Americans were: Why Libby and why now?
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Apr 13, 2018
Agents who raided the office and home of President Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen weren't only interested in hush-money payoffs to women, but were also investigating a broad range of his business dealings, including a taxi empire, New York City real estate and an aborted project to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
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Apr 13, 2018
New York City comic and ex-radio host Randy Credico says that longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone sent him "scary," obscenity-filled emails after he went public disputing Stone's claim that Credico was his "backchannel" to WikiLeaks.
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Apr 13, 2018
President Trump tore into James Comey on Friday in a pair of tweets aimed at discrediting his former FBI director's explosive new book that details Comey's interactions with the president before his firing last year.
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Apr 13, 2018
The sequence of events that lead to immigration court vary from case to case, especially now, as even broader categories of people — ranging from convicted criminals to recent border crossers seeking asylum, longtime residents and even a few U.S. citizens — are getting caught up in the Trump administration's sweeping enforcement dragnet.
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Apr 13, 2018
It may be 2018's marquee Senate race.
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Apr 12, 2018
Former FBI director James Comey's account of his turbulent career in law enforcement, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership," is officially out next week, but reviews and excerpts began appearing Thursday. The book is scathing about Comey's interactions with President Trump, who fired Comey last year over his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and its possible links to the Trump campaign.
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Apr 12, 2018
The doorman, Dino Sajudin, reportedly signed a contract with American Media that carried a $1 million penalty for disclosing details of the explosive story.
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Apr 12, 2018
CIA Director Mike Pompeo, President Trump's pick for secretary of state, confirmed on Thursday that he has been interviewed by Robert Mueller in the special counsel's investigation into the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia.
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Apr 12, 2018
Daily Digit is the story behind the numbers that make the world turn. Today we're looking at the $16 million in unpaid parking fines owed to New York City by drivers with U.N. diplomat license plates.
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Apr 12, 2018
"Never said when an attack on Syria would take place," Trump tweeted early Thursday. "Could be very soon or not so soon at all!"
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Apr 12, 2018
Trying to shut down the special counsel and seize control of the Justice Department will be the thing that brings this entire Legoland of an administration crashing down on itself.
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Apr 11, 2018
ISIS has nearly been defeated in Syria, and the Assad regime, backed by Russia and Iran, is close to winning the civil war. But the situation there is as dangerous as ever, and President Trump may be making things worse by tweeting out a belligerent threat to Russia.
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