Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic socialist congressional candidate who has spent weeks campaigning this year with fellow socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, this week refused to endorse his prospective candidacy in the 2020 presidential race.

President Trump hosted his third wide-ranging rally of the midterm season in Montana on Thursday night, where he urged voters to "never forget Benghazi" and praised Republican Rep. Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to body slamming a reporter last year, as a "tough cookie."

In a fiery hearing Friday in Washington, D.C., a federal judge unabashedly accused career State Department officials of lying and signing false affidavits to derail lawsuits seeking information about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email sever and her handling of the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested Wednesday that Republicans will try again to repeal the Affordable Care Act after the November midterm elections, saying in an interview that "we’re not satisfied with the way Obamacare is working.”

The top Treasury Department employee who was arrested and charged by federal authorities with leaking confidential financial documents pertaining to former Trump officials was apprehended with a flash drive containing the allegedly pilfered information in-hand, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Less than a month after the confirmation of Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh entrenched a 5-4 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, leading law professors are urging Democrats to expand the size of all of the nation's federal courts and pack them with liberals.

Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke emulated President Trump's attacks in his final, fiery debate with incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday night, openly calling Cruz "Lyin' Ted" and charging that he was "all talk and no action" in the Senate.

The FBI initiated an investigation in March 2017 concerning an alleged, previously unreported media leak about President Trump and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn newly released documents publicly posted by the FBI show -- and since-fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was a witness in the probe.

Democrats are increasingly whispering about the possibility of impeaching President Trump if they regain control of the House of Representatives in November, even as top Republicans openly suggest the move would backfire politically.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday lit into federal judges for what he called a dramatic uptick in "outrageous" decisions threatening to interfere with the separation of powers by exposing internal White House deliberations.