He had lost significant support and financial backing among Democrats in the wake of a POLITICO report that a woman said he forced her to have sex. He denied the claim.

The questions surrounding Democrat Graham Platner have left a crucial U.S. Senate race unsettled just months before the midterm elections

Democratic leaders steadfastly pressuring controversial Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner to withdraw from the race after a new sexual assault allegation.

I have spoken with Graham Platner about the best path forward for Maine,” Sanders said in a statement. “In light of these very serious allegations, I have recommended that

Senator Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized since June 14. Speculation about his health has spread in recent days.

Kentucky’s governor has written an open letter to Mitch McConnell asking the Republican senator to disclose more about his condition

Weeks after Sen. Mitch McConnell was hospitalized for reasons that have not been disclosed, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is calling for answers.

Andy Beshear (D) wrote a letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell's office requesting a health update to constituents as speculation mounts over his prolonged absence after the Kentucky Republican was hospitalized last month.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s family, federal lawmakers and community advocates are pushing for local scrutiny, expressing distrust in federal officials.

An ICE agent fatally shot a Houston man during a traffic stop. They said the man was an undocumented immigrant. His son said he’d lived here for 35 years.

A Mexican immigrant was on his way to finish construction on several Houston homes with a crew of workers Tuesday morning when he was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, his family said.

Houston Mayor John Whitmire called for a "transparent, independent investigation" into Tuesday's fatal ICE shooting in Houston's East End, while still emphasizing that Houston police were not involved and that the city lacks jurisdiction over federal law enforcement officers.

The writer E. Jean Carroll can collect $5.8 million held in escrow since a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed her, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Trump’s lawyers immediately appealed but were denied an emergency order to block the payment from being made.

President Donald Trump and his attorneys filed a motion to pause the payout of nearly $5.8 million to writer E. Jean Carroll.

A federal judge ordered that E. Jean Carroll receive $5.8 million she won in her case against Donald Trump. He is continuing to appeal the case.

E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5.8 million that was set aside after a jury found three years ago that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became president and defamed her after she publicly revealed the attack,

A federal appeals panel ruled unanimously that President Donald Trump’s name will remain off the Kennedy Center while he continues to litigate the removal. Meanwhile, a tarp and scaffolding continue to cover the facade where Trump’s name had been.

President Donald Trump’s name will not be returning to the Kennedy Center anytime soon. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday ruled against the arts institution’s motion to stay a lower court’s decision that Trump’s name be removed from the Kennedy Center pending its appeal.

A three-judge panel has denied a request from the Kennedy Center's board to keep President Donald Trump's name on the institution while they appeal an earlier ruling that dubbed the name change illega

The D.C. circuit appeals court denied all of President Trump's arguments that sought to stop the removal of his name from the Washington, D.C., arts institution.

Former Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan was fined $5,000 Wednesday for obstruction for trying to hide an undocumented immigrant from ICE.

By David Thomas and Andrew Goudsward MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, July 8 (Reuters) - ⁠A ⁠former Wisconsin judge faces sentencing on ⁠Wednesday after she was found guilty of obstructing a planned immigration arrest outside ​her courtroom last year.

Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan was spared from prison Wednesday for ushering a Mexican defendant through her jury room door as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents sought to arrest him in a courthouse hallway.

A former Wisconsin judge who was convicted of felony obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court