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The former Texas congressman sent a text message to KTSM Wednesday afternoon confirming the news that he will seek the Democratic presidential nomination.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson effectively added about 3 and a half more years in prison to the sentence Manafort received last week from a different judge in Virginia.

In Iowa, where the presidential primary season traditionally begins, a statewide poll has anointed Joe Biden as the Democratic front-runner, with 27 percent support.

An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll says that the country's civility crisis is deepening and that a majority of Americans fear it will lead to violence.

The Trump administration is seeking to close nearly two dozen U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices around the world.

An estimated 155,000 or more sex assault evidence kits still await testing, and thousands of results have yet to be linked to suspects.

President Trump's onetime campaign chairman Paul Manafort is due back in federal court on Wednesday for sentencing in his criminal case in Washington, D.C.

President Trump's budget proposal for 2020 calls for $8.6 billion in new border wall funding, a signal that the White House is not backing away from its demand.

Misleading claims, particularly about voter fraud, have intensified ongoing debates about voting rights and election security.

The widespread endorsement for national marijuana reform among Democrats tracks the nation's evolving views.

Even if they did, the political dynamics that enabled bipartisan deficit-cutting deals decades ago has disappeared, replaced by bitter partisanship and chronic dysfunction.

Maryland’s highest court, in a split 4-3 decision, ruled that there will be no new trial for convicted killer Adnan Syed.

Questions remain about how much the former Delaware senator could appeal to a changing Democratic Party.

A federal court made it harder Thursday for the U.S. government to quickly deport asylum-seekers if they fail an initial screening at the border.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's shifting his company's focus to messaging services designed to serve as fortresses of privacy.