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President Biden recently overtook former President Donald J. Trump in the total number of donors who have given to his campaign, which is often seen as a proxy for voter engagement.

ABC News had an exclusive interview with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday.

The fifth week of Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York will end as it began: with the former president's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen on the stand.

Washington — Two Republican-led House committees are set to consider a contempt of Congress resolution against Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday for defying their request for audio recordings from the classified documents case against President Biden.

The Judiciary and Oversight committees are moving forward with the markups after the Justice Department declined to turn over an audio recording of former special counsel Robert Hur's October 2023 interview with the president, which came as part of his investigation into Mr. Biden's handling...

The U.S. Border Patrol recorded ar decline in migrant encounters in April, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a news release Wednesday.

In April, the Border Patrol recorded 128,900 encounters between ports of entry along the southwest border. The figure was 30% lower than in April 2023, and 6% lower than in March.

"CBP continues to surge resources and personnel to impacted sectors along the border to ensure the safe, swift, and orderly processing of individuals to maximize expedited removals," Troy Miller, a senior official...

A suspected arsonist sprays a mosque with petrol and sets it on fire over a family dispute, police say.

Zhang Zhan's condition is unclear several days after her scheduled release from jail.

The agreement by President Biden and Donald J. Trump to move ahead with two presidential debates — and sideline the Commission on Presidential Debates — is a debilitating and potentially fatal blow to an institution that had once been a major arbiter in presidential politics.

But the roots of the commission’s decline go back at least a decade and came to a head in 2020, when the commission struggled to stage a debate with Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden during the pandemic.

The candidates’ first encounter that year was caustic and raucous, as Mr. Trump...

House Republicans are threatening to hold Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio of President Biden’s interview with a special counsel investigating his handling of government documents.

On Thursday, the Judiciary and Oversight committees — run by allies of Mr. Trump — will hold sessions on Mr. Garland after he rejected their subpoenas for the recordings. Transcripts of the discussions, which took place between Mr. Biden and the special counsel Robert K. Hur, have already been made public after...

Carol Moseley Braun, one of only two Black women to have been elected to the Senate in U.S. history, was in Paris on Wednesday when she was informed that another Black woman, Angela Alsobrooks, had won the Democratic nomination for an open Senate seat in Maryland.

“Praise the Lord,” she said with relief and surprise. “That’s wonderful.”

With Ms. Alsobrooks’s come-from-behind victory in Tuesday’s primary, voters in November will most likely have the chance to double the number of Black women ever elected to the Senate. Another Democrat...

More than 5,000 Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama are voting this week on whether to join the United Automobile Workers union, a decision both supporters and opponents say will have consequences far beyond two factories near Tuscaloosa where the German carmaker churns out luxury sport utility vehicles and batteries for electric cars.

Conservative political leaders have portrayed the union campaign to organize Mercedes workers as an assault by outsiders on the region’s economy and way of life. The vote tally is expected to be released by federal...

Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen is set to return to the witness stand Thursday to face a full day of cross-examination in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial.

The House of Representatives is set to vote on a bill to stop President Biden from blocking offensive weapons aid

FIRST ON FOX: Twenty-one-term Democratic Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur is facing renewed criticism from Republicans in her state over comments she made in a resurfaced interview where she appears to compare Osama bin Laden and the United States’ war against terrorism with the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution.

"Before launching a military strike against Iraq, Americans should consider their own history to remember how powerful the mix of religion and politics can be, U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) said," a March 2003 article from the...

Defense attorneys for former President Trump are expected to continue their cross-examination of Michael Cohen when court resumes Thursday morning.

Cohen is said to be the star witness and will give the final testimony in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against the former president.

Prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump falsified business records 34 times to conceal a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels, a pornographic performer, in the lead-up to the 2016 election to silence her about an alleged affair with...