Summing up the year in politics for 2020 takes a mere five words: Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.

A UK activist who calls herself the “Black Panther of Oxford” wants to create a “race offenders” registry that would bar alleged racists from getting work or living near communities of color. Sasha Johnson, 26, divulged the agenda for the Taking the Initiative Party, a political group in the UK that’s inspired by Black Lives...

Howard J. Rubenstein, New York’s most influential public relations guru of the past half-century, died on Tuesday in his Manhattan home at 88. He was a power broker with grace — a true prince of the city. Brooklyn-born Rubenstein was technically a publicist. But he was much more — a political kingmaker and a behind-the-scenes macher...

Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock denounced the UK’s vote to leave the European Union as “ethnocentrism and hate” in a newly resurfaced 2018 sermon. “Hate has gone viral,” the pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church said of the 2016 vote to leave the political and trade bloc. “Nativism and ethnocentrism and bigotry ... in...

Come on, man! Joe Biden raised eyebrows Tuesday when he accidentally referred to Kamala Harris as “president-elect.” The real president-elect was delivering remarks on the COVID-19 crisis in Wilmington, Del., when he gave his incoming vice president a massive promotion. “I hope the president will clearly and unambiguously urge all Americans to take the vaccine...

WASHINGTON — An unlikely band of lawmakers are backing President Trump’s last-minute push to increase stimulus payments from $600 to $2,000 as the Senate reaches a stalemate on a vote. From progressive icons Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to GOP rising star Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), the growing group has...

Biden specifically pointed fingers at “political leadership” at the Defense Department and the White House Office of Management and Budget, though he suggested other agencies are giving his transition team a hard time as well.

New Jersey veterans’ homes barred employees from wearing face coverings in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic — under a policy from Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration, a new report says. The administration even set up a “progressive discipline” process for “mask insubordination” in late March, just days before the state’s health commissioner ordered...

The Justice Department sued Walmart on Tuesday, accusing the nation’s largest retailer of fanning the opioid crisis with a system that pressured pharmacists to rapidly fill reams of pill prescriptions without adequate oversight.

As the US prepares for the second round of stimulus checks for the year — this time at $600 — developed countries around the world have been maintaining beefed up relief efforts. While the United States saw a nearly six-months-long political stalemate before the divided House and Senate leadership were finally forced back to the...

FRESNO, Calif. — A self-proclaimed pedophilia advocate who once ran for political office in Virginia has been arrested by authorities who said they caught him flying across the country earlier this week with a 12-year-old girl he had persuaded to run away from her California home. Nathan Larson, 40, made the girl wear a long-haired...

Democrats said Republicans are trying to insert the Federal Reserve-related provision into the stimulus to kneecap President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration.

Trump is putting pressure on Republicans to try one last time to flip the results when Congress convenes on Jan. 6 to count the Electoral College votes.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo huddled virtually with labor leaders to discuss the gravity of New York’s pandemic-fueled fiscal crisis as he and lawmakers struggle to close a massive hole in next year’s budget. “The governor’s message was, ‘Things are dire. I’m going to need your help,'” a union source said of Wednesday’s secret chat. The labor...

“Emergency food providers need additional food to meet the unprecedented demand in communities nationwide,” said N.Y. lawmakers

The policy change was aimed at preventing a repeat of the crisis when hospitals were overwhelmed by COVID patients earlier this year.

Disaster film “Greenland” gets a scary amount right about what it feels like to be ambushed by a worldwide crisis and feel absolutely helpless.

The victim’s condition was not immediately known.

Grab your metal detector! For several months gold and silver jewelry, ornaments, and golden nuggets have started washing up on the shore of a small Venezuelan fishing village that had been devastated by the country’s economic crisis and COVID-19. Yolman Lares was the first to find treasure on the beach in Guaca in September when...

Anthony Weiner — whose online and sexting scandals destroyed his political career and landed him in prison — is now promoting his company's ability to live-chat with customers.

The United States saw its deadliest week since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — with a 44 percent rise in fatalities compared to the week prior, according to new data.  A total of 15,966 Americans died from the coronavirus in the seven-day period between Dec. 3 and Dec. 9, according to data compiled by...

It is the stuff of a James Bond blockbuster: a young, attractive woman lures a rising political star into a romantic web, all the while collecting critical information to trickle back to her handler or big bosses back home. Axios revealed this week that more than six years ago Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., began a relationship with a woman...

As violence against indigenous women and men continues unabated, the U.S. Department of Justice is halfway through a two-year program to develop national standards to address the crisis.

“I’ve been the go-to crisis manager. I know how to get it done," said Garcia.

​The father and brother of Rep. Eric Swalwell unfriended the suspected Chinese spy who got close to the California Democrat and other elected officials in a bid to infiltrate the US political system. Eric Swalwell, the congressman’s father, and Joshua, his brother, had remained friends on Facebook with Christine Fang, also known as Fang Fang,...

The 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference will be held in person and mostly indoors in February, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report Tuesday. The annual gathering of conservatives is set to take place from Feb. 25-28 at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando, Florida, Fox News reported. “CPAC believes that Florida is the right state to...

Many of the entries on the 2020 edition of “The Yale Book of Quotations” relate to the coronavirus crisis.

The mayor of Los Angeles called the coronavirus crisis the “greatest threat to life” the city has ever faced — as the City of Angels grapples with a surge in new cases. Mayor Eric Garcetti warned that projections suggest Los Angeles County could see another 3,000 deaths from the pandemic by the end of the...

Thousands of President Trump’s most devoted Georgia followers gathered Saturday to cheer his first rally since Election Day — as the Peach State prepares for yet another election, a double runoff that has both of its Republican senators fighting for their political lives. “We’re going to stand with President Trump because he is fighting for...

For some Iranians, President Donald Trump’s hard-line strategy against their country brought political hope even as it brought economic misery. But they expect just the opposite from President-elect Joe Biden: the economy might improve, but the chances that the dictatorial ayatollahs could fall are fading fast. Two years after the U.S. imposed tough sanctions on...