Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., announced Wednesday he plans to retire at the end of 2019, citing health problems. Updated at 3:18 p.m. ET Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson announced Wednesday that he will be resigning from his Senate seat at the end of the year. Isakson has been battling Parkinson’s disease and cited health problems for…
This photo released by the U.S. Defense Department shows the launch of a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile at San Nicolas Island, Calif., on Sunday. The Pentagon says it has tested a U.S. missile that exceeds limits set down by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a Cold War agreement between Washington and Moscow that was…
Don’t see the graphic above? Click here House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump on Tuesday. The speaker had resisted launching official proceedings for months as a steady string of House Democrats pushed for committees to act. Momentum behind an inquiry grew as a flood of House Democrats once…
Former Vice President Joe Biden savaged Donald Trump’s foreign policy agenda in an interview that aired Friday morning, warning that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will be completely disbanded if the president captures another White House term in 2020. “What bothers me abroad is, look, the idea that we can go it alone with no…
It’s an old tradition that endures, even amid the year-round deluge of programming brought to us by the age of streaming. It is the fall TV preview. Turns out fall is the perfect time to refocus on television after a summer filled with vacations and outdoor distractions. So our pop culture team collected the coolest…
Former Vice President Joe Biden told public school teachers Friday that the first thing he would do as president would be to pick a teacher as Education secretary. But he also made a pledge about that appointment. "So the press doesn’t get confused, I promise I’m not going to appoint my wife," Biden said of…
On Saturday, Julián Castro announced he wants Donald Trump’s job. Back in 2002, he wanted Trump’s business. As a San Antonio City Council member in his late 20s, Castro voted to give $600,000 in taxpayer subsidies to land Trump’s Miss USA beauty pageant — a move that delighted the business mogul at the time and…
DOVER, N.H. — Michael Bloomberg looked a lot like a traditional presidential hopeful on Tuesday with a well-attended speech in New Hampshire, a factory visit and a walking tour of local businesses. But he didn’t sound much like a Democratic candidate. Other than his sharp criticisms of Donald Trump on climate change, the government shutdown…
Democrats across the ideological spectrum want their party to dedicate one of its presidential primary debates to climate change — despite the risk of exposing their own divides. At least five presidential candidates have backed fellow presidential contender Jay Inslee’s idea for a climate-centric debate, in a sign of the issue’s growing profile among Democratic…
Former Vice President Joe Biden so far has stayed on the sidelines as the 2020 Democratic field has grown, but Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware says that may change soon. Coons said during an interview on "CBS This Morning" that Biden "is moving closer" to announcing his presidential campaign. "He’s someone who I am confident…