Former Marine combat pilot and Democratic candidate Amy McGrath is running for Kentucky's U.S. Senate seat against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

A trial over whether election officials are doing enough to help voters navigate Missouri's new voter photo identification law has begun.

A number of U.S. business economists appear sufficiently concerned about the risks of some of President Donald Trump’s economic policies that they expect a recession in the U.S. by the end of 2021.

President Donald Trump has expressed an interest in buying Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory.

President Donald Trump dismissed concerns of recession on Sunday and offered an optimistic outlook for the economy after last week's steep drop in the financial markets.

Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his criminal justice overhaul to "reform every aspect of America's dysfunctional criminal justice system."

Police say a man accused of making what they believe was a threat to a Jewish center in Ohio on Instagram has been arrested on telecommunications harassment and aggravated menacing charges.

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong streets were turned into rivers of umbrellas on Sunday as hundreds of thousands of people marched through heavy rain down a major road in the Chinese territory, where massive pro-democracy demonstrations have become a regular weekend activity. Organizers said at le…

 (CNN) -- Republican Rep. Steve King clashed with constituents as he defended several of his controversial comments on abortion and immigration during a Saturday town hall in his hometown of Storm Lake, Iowa.

Democratic presidential candidates will descend on Iowa next week to do something that Native Americans say doesn't happen enough: court their vote.

Police set up concrete barriers and closed streets and bridges in an effort to contain and separate the far-right and anti-fascist protesters who swarmed downtown Portland, Oregon.

Health experts say President Trump's new aggressive approach to the new green card rules could force millions of low-income migrants to chose between needed services and their bid to stay legally in the U.S.

A top Missouri prosecutor says he doesn't believe women will be charged with felonies for seeking abortions under a new state law. 

Kentucky's labor secretary says more than 1,000 teachers violated state law by participating in mass rallies at the state Capitol that forced some schools to close.

A federal appeals court's ruling Friday will allow the Trump administration to begin rejecting asylum at some parts of the U.S.-Mexico border for migrants who arrive after passing through a third country.

President Donald Trump sought to reassure his supporters about the state of the U.S. economy despite the stock market volatility and told rallygoers in New Hampshire, a state that he hopes to capture in 2020, that their financial security depends on his reelection.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is recovering after having shoulder surgery on Thursday.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the US should build more mental institutions to deal with mass shooters.

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Thursday ended his longshot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, saying he may instead challenge one of the most vulnerable Senate Republicans in 2020.

Kentucky's outgoing lieutenant governor has sued Gov. Matt Bevin in an effort to win reinstatement of her two staff members who were dismissed by Bevin's administration.

EpiPens for kids will now have to be covered by insurance companies in Illinois.

John Hickenlooper is expected to drop out of the Democratic presidential primary on Thursday.

(CNN) -- President Donald Trump was on the cusp of commuting former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's sentence late last week, multiple sources said. But then Republican members of Illinois' congressional delegationbegan flooding the White House with calls.

The acting director of Citizenship and Immigration Services says the inscription on the Statue of Liberty welcoming immigrants into the country is about "people coming from Europe."

In what's turning out to be a heated race between the two men vying for votes in the race for Kentucky attorney general in November, Republican candidate Daniel Cameron said Tuesday he has a number of issues he's eager to tackle if elected.

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul has made his first public appearance since undergoing lung surgery.

Tennessee lawmakers are considering whether to seek one of the nation's strictest abortion bans.

President Donald Trump will be campaigning for Gov. Matt Bevin later this month.

Trump administration rules that could deny green cards to immigrants if they use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance are going into effect.

 JEFFERSON CITY, MO -- Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has ordered U.S. and Missouri flags to be flown at half-staff at government buildings across the state on Monday in honor or Representative Rebecca Roeber.

California has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, including a ban on the type of high-capacity ammunition magazines used in some of the nation's deadliest mass shootings.

Police fired tear gas Sunday inside a train station and in several other Hong Kong neighborhoods where protesters occupied roads in another weekend of anti-government demonstrations.

(CNN) -- Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is once again saying on the campaign trail and in interviews that the US spends twice as much on health care, per capita, as any other country in the world.

President Trump says that North Korea's Kim Jong Un wants to meet again to "start negotiations" after joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises end.

President Trump says he believes he can rally Republicans and the NRA around stronger federal background checks. 

WICKLIFFE, KY -- Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin is announcing some economical changes to our area. 

The vice president said that, on his drive to the university, he was thinking of the families affected by the deadly Marshall County High School shooting last year.

President Donald Trump has named Joseph Maguire, the current director of the National Counterterrorism Center, as acting national intelligence director.

Shifting the gun violence debate, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday he now wants to consider background checks and other bills, setting up a potentially pivotal moment when lawmakers return in the fall.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is questioning the constitutionality of the Trump administration's expansion of immigration agents' power to deport migrants without having them first appear before a judge.

Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear's office is weighing in on the personnel spat between Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton and Republican Gov. Matt Bevin's administration.

The Republican Party, the Trump campaign and other GOP organizations said Thursday that they are freezing their spending on Twitter to protest the platform's treatment of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Federal appeals judges have heard arguments in a high-stakes case that could determine whether Kentucky's last abortion clinic remains open.

President Donald Trump says he's "very strongly" considering commuting the sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who is serving a 14-year prison term on multiple federal corruption convictions.

Kentucky governor Matt Bevin was the guest speaker at Wednesday's Rotary Club meeting at the Carson Center. 

Beto O'Rourke is skipping a planned trip to Iowa this weekend, as his hometown grieves after the mass shooting here, he told reporters Wednesday.

President Donald Trump is expected to visit Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday morning and El Paso, Texas, in the afternoon to praise first responders and console family members and survivors. 

Gov. J.B. Pritzker's office canceled the band after staff learned about it.

Vice President Mike Pence is expected to visit Kentucky this week. 

The Trump campaign and Republican Party have sued California over a new law requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns.