Politics

John Childs attends Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Annual Gala at 3 West Club on December 14, 2016 in New York City. Sylvain Gaboury | Patrick McMullan | Getty Images Republican megadonor and private equity investor John W. Childs has continued giving GOP fundraising committees large sums of money since he …

Signage for the National Rifle Association (NRA) is displayed during the organization’s Annual Meetings & Exhibits at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, May 4, 2013. Aaron M. Sprecher | Bloomberg | Getty Images The National Rifle Association turned to old footage of one of its former employees …

Candidates former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris take the stage on the second night of the second 2020 Democratic U.S. presidential debate in Detroit, Michigan, July 31, 2019. Rebecca Cook | Reuters Through all of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary’s early ups and downs, Joe Biden …

These people smelled a rat — and saw a bunch of them too — in Baltimore County, Maryland, apartments owned by the family of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law. Weeks after Trump ignited a firestorm of controversy and accusations of racism by calling the Baltimore-area district of Rep. Elijah Cummings “a …

John Hickenlooper, former governor of Colorado and 2020 presidential candidate, pauses while speaking during the Progress Iowa Corn Feed in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S., on Sunday, July 14, 2019. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper dropped out of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race …

From left, Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Knauss, financier (and future convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida on Feb. 12, 2000. Davidoff Studios Photography | Archive Photos | Getty Images …

Farmer John Duffy (L) and Roger Murphy load soybeans from a grain bin onto a truck before taking them to a grain elevator on June 13, 2018 in Dwight, Illinois. U.S. soybean futures plunged with renewed fears that China could hit U.S. soybeans with retaliatory tariffs if the Trump administration …

Tom Steyer Michael Brochstein | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Billionaire Tom Steyer has resigned from the board of a think tank run by allies of Bill and Hillary Clinton, CNBC has learned. Neera Tanden, the CEO of the Center for American Progress (CAP) confirmed to CNBC that …

A docker works in front of a container ship at Qingdao Port in Qingdao, Shandong Province of China. ChinaFotoPress | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s tariffs cost U.S. businesses $3.4 billion in June alone, according to Tariffs Hurt the Heartland, a coalition of trade associations and agriculture commodity groups. That …

U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) during a news conference to introduce H.R.1, the ‘For the People Act,’ on the U.S. Capitol on Friday, January 4, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Salwan Georges | The Washington Post | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out at Rep. Elijah Cummings, …