Politics

SAUL LOEB | AFP | Getty Images Rep. Ron DeSantis, Republican of Florida, and candidate for Florida Governor, speaks during a rally with President Donald Trump at Florida State Fairgrounds Expo Hall in Tampa, Florida, on July 31, 2018 With Trump’s backing, DeSantis easily beat the more traditional Republican choice …

Adam Jeffery | CNBC Peter Thiel, American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. Venture capitalist and Republican mega-donor Peter Thiel has made his first six-figure splash in the 2018 midterm election cycle, according to newly posted Federal Election Commission records. The RNC saw Thiel, a billionaire philanthropist who has …

Department of Defense photo Defense Secretary James Mattis waits outside of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., April 23, 2018. The Pentagon has no plans to suspend future joint military exercises with South Korea, the Defense secretary said Tuesday, amid negotiations with North Korea on disbanding its nuclear and ballistic missile …

Leah Millis | Reuters President Donald Trump speaks at a Make America Great Again rally at the Civic Center in Charleston, West Virginia, August 21, 2018 Felony convictions and guilty pleas by two close associates had little initial effect on President Donald Trump’s political standing, and Republicans remain in an …

ANTHONY WALLACE | AFP | Getty Images North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un (L) walks out with US President Donald Trump (R) to face the media after taking part in a signing ceremony at the end of their historic US-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in …

Cheriss May | NurPhoto | Getty Images President Donald Trump made the statement that the United States is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, in the Rose Garden of the White House, June 1, 2017. President Donald Trump tweeted his condolences to the family of Sen. John McCain, who died …

Aaron Josefczyk | Reuters A worker cuts a steel coil at the Novolipetsk Steel PAO steel mill in Farrell, Pennsylvania, March 9, 2018. President Donald Trump’s tariff policy has failed to catch on in three states critical to this year’s midterm elections. A solid plurality of adults in Pennsylvania, Texas …

Andrew Harnik | Reuters Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives at Sunan International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea on July 6th, 2018. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday that he would travel to North Korea next week to continue negotiations over the country’s nuclear disarmament. The announcement came …

Throughout much of Trump’s tenure, the change in employment has been too small for the bureau’s economists to say with confidence that coal miners actually added or cut jobs in the real world. The bureau does not actually count workers, but makes projections about employment in a given sector by …

Bill Clark | CQ Roll Call | Getty Images Donald Trump, Paul Manafort and Ivanka Trump check the podium at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, July 21, 2016. Speaking to “Fox & Friends,” Trump was asked whether he was considering pardoning his former campaign chairman. He didn’t rule …