Politics

Britain's Brexit negotiator Stephen Barclay has expressed optimism on reaching a Brexit deal following talks with top EU negotiator Michel Barnier. Joe Davies reports.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked for forgiveness on Thursday after pictures of him in brown and blackface emerged less than five weeks before the national vote.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters a whistleblower complaint against him that has roiled Washington relates to a “totally appropriate conversation.”

A campaign donor and activist well known in California politics, Edward Buck, was arrested Tuesday after an alleged methamphetamine overdose in his home. It would follow two fatal incidents involving his property..

President Donald Trump vowed at a rally in New Mexico to win the longtime Democratic stronghold state in the November 2020 U.S. election.

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren denounced the corruption she argues has crippled the country's politics and economy, drawing her largest crowd thus far in a sign of her campaign's growing strength.

U.S. President Donald Trump rejected Democrats’ calls for impeaching Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Sunday after a new report that alleged sexual misconduct, encouraging Kavanaugh to sue for libel and suggesting the Justice Department could “rescue” him.

Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden clashed with progressive challengers Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on healthcare in a debate on Thursday, while other candidates pared back some of the bickering that marked the first two debates this summer.

More than 100 chief executives of some of the nation’s most well-known companies on Thursday called on the U.S. Senate to take action to tackle gun violence, including expanding background checks and strengthening so-called red flag laws, according to media reports.

The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted on Thursday to adopt a resolution intended to intensify its impeachment probe of Republican President Donald Trump.

Democrats will hold a single debate for 10 U.S. presidential contenders on Thursday but the spotlight will likely be on frontrunner Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren, whose support rose more than that of any other Democratic presidential hopeful over the past month, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump said John Bolton, who he abruptly fired on Tuesday, had made some mistakes, including offending North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un by demanding that he follow a "Libyan model" and hand over all his nuclear weapons.