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Democratic congressional leaders are blasting block the release of a Democratic memo aimed at rebutting a GOP document alleging surveillance abuses against the Trump campaign. Senate Minority Leader MORE (D-Calif.) both accused Trump of applying a double standard by approving the release of the GOP memo but not the Democratic one. “The President’s double standard when it comes to transparency is appalling," Schumer said in a statement. "The rationale for releasing the Nunes memo, transparency, vanishes when it could show information that’s harmful to him

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The Winter Olympics have started in South Korea with the shadow of U.S.-North Korea tensions looming over them.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has dubbed these games the “Peace Olympics,” but North Korea and the United States made clear in the days leading up the opening ceremony that nothing has changed between the two. And few, if any, expect the Olympics-inspired détente to last after the world’s athletes depart the peninsula.

Senate Majority Leader on Tuesday that he will give an immigration bill a vote, but it won't be attached to a spending deal. "It is still my view that I will call up a DACA related immigration bill that ... the president will sign and that it will not be a part of any overall spending agreement," McConnell told reporters, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Congress has less than two weeks to meet a Jan.

By Friday, Fox had removed the editorial – which criticized the heavy focus on the racial and sexual “diversity” of the American team at the upcoming Winter Olympics at PyeongChang, South Korea, to the detriment of the traditional emphasis on athletic prowess – from their website without an explanatory note.

By Friday, Fox had removed the editorial – which criticized the heavy focus on the racial and sexual “diversity” of the American team at the upcoming Winter Olympics at PyeongChang, South Korea, to the detriment of the traditional emphasis on athletic prowess – from their website without an explanatory note.

Vice President Mike Pence engaged in a game of parade one-upmanship on Friday as he spoke to reporters in South Korea ahead of the opening ceremonies for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Pence was asked about Thursday's military parade in Donald Trump's interest in holding such a parade himself. "I think any opportunity we have to celebrate the men and women of the armed forces of the United States is a great day," Pence said, supporting Trump's re

The House and Senate both passed a sweeping spending deal in the early hours of Friday morning – but not before the government technically ran out of money at midnight Thursday, triggering the second shutdown in less than a month. The Senate, which began voting at 1:30 a.m. Friday, approved the deal 71 to 28. The vote was closer in the House, which voted at about 5:30 a.m. on Friday, but it passed, 240 to 186. President Donald Trump signed the bill early Friday morning and the shutdown lasted less than nine hours.

Congressional Russia investigators are studying newly unearthed documents that are being described as a “second dossier” containing uncorroborated allegations about President Trump’s activities in Russia – this one compiled by a freelance journalist and shared with a prominent Clinton ally. “I certainly think it’s something worth examining,” Rep. Peter King, R-New York, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told ABC News in an interview about the second dossier.

PARRIS ISLAND, South Carolina — There was a rumor at Parris Island that women didn’t hike as well as men. But Capt. Andrew Williams says that’s not true. “I wanted to squash rumors,” he says. It’s 4:30 a.m.