Politics

Puerto Rico has asked for more aid in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Will the federal government provide it?

By Joshua Barajas

The crisis grips an island whose population is larger than that of 21 U.S. states. Here's what we know about the damage and what other funding the U.S. will provide.

What Republicans just changed in their health care bill

By Lisa Desjardins

This bill, Graham-Cassidy 2.0, is an effort to win over key holdouts on the original bill the senators unveiled an 12 days ago. Here's what you know.

U.S. says it’s not pushing for regime change in North Korea

By Matthew Pennington, Associated Press

The Trump administration clarified Monday that it's not seeking to overthrow North Korea's government after the president tweeted that Kim Jong Un "won't be around much longer" and Pyongyang interpreted it as a declaration of war.

Supreme Court cancels arguments over Trump’s travel ban

By Associated Press

The unsigned order from the justices Monday asks both sides to weigh in by Oct. 5 about what to do with the case.

WATCH: White House says it has not declared war on North Korea

By Joshua Barajas

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will hold a news briefing at 2 p.m. ET today. Watch her remarks here.

North Korea calls Trump comments a ‘declaration of war’

By Erica R. Hendry

North Korea's foreign minister told reporters Monday that President Donald Trump's weekend tweet about leader Kim Jong Un was a “declaration of war” that gives his country the right to take "countermeasures," including the right to shoot down U.S. bombers…

Anthony Weiner sentenced to 21 months in sexting case

By Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister, Associated Press

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison for sexting with a 15-year-old girl in a case that rocked Hillary Clinton's campaign for the White House in the closing days of the race and may have…

Trump’s travel ban unlikely to affect North Korea

By Hyung-Jin Kim, Associated Press

President Donald Trump’s new restrictions on visitors from several nations are largely symbolic in North Korea’s case, because not many of its citizens visit the United States.

WATCH: Senate committee holds hearing on Graham-Cassidy health care bill

By Alan Fram, Associated Press

Top Republicans are adding money to their staggering effort to repeal the Obama health care law. Yet their path to succeeding in their last-gasp effort has grown narrower, perhaps impossible.

Trump doubles down on criticism of NFL players, says it ‘has nothing to do with race’

By Catherine Lucey, Associated Press

With his attacks on activist athletes, Trump again plunged into the middle of his favorite kind of drama — personal, aggressive, culturally volatile and entirely of his own making.