Mitch McConnell

The new plan to encourage Americans to buy more electric vehicles built in North America, instead of just the United States, has cleared its tallest hurdle.

Law enforcement officials described in chilling detail on Thursday, May 25, 2022, the time it took for tactical officers to finally gun down an 18-year-old attacker after he shot and killed 19 students and two teachers inside a fourth-grade classroom in small-town Texas.

The collapse of U.S. democracy would carry especially damaging climate consequences, writes Mark Hertsgaard, co-founder and executive director of Covering Climate Now.

Chomsky avoids the trap of blaming America's woes on a single politician, no matter how destructive and venal.

A group of U.S. senators is pushing President Donald Trump to fast-track the final text of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement so Congress can vote on it before the end of the year — a notion that stretches credulity for lawmakers and observers on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border.

Kelly Craft may be Donald Trump's new U.S. ambassador to Canada, but she quoted John F. Kennedy when she formally took office on Monday, Oct. 23, 2017.

President Trump is tweeting more often, more angrily and more frequently against members of his own political family, in a political spectacle revealing fault lines within America's governing party.

Donald Trump's ambassador is heading to Canada: the U.S. Senate swiftly confirmed Kelly Knight Craft, endorsing her nomination in time for her to begin work as major trade negotiations start.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and 21 other Republicans urged U.S. President Donald Trump to follow through on his campaign pledge to pull out of the Paris climate accord.

"They all hate the black guy."