President Donald Trump has tapped former Department of Homeland Security public affairs official Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary, a choice that caught current and former DHS officials who had worked with Zacharia off guard. Zacharia, 41, worked for several weeks earlier this year as deputy spokeswoman for the 270,000-person federal department before abruptly […]

Republicans are brushing off signs of an unexpectedly competitive Senate race in South Carolina, where President Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate is locked in a statistical tie with her Democratic opponent less than a month before Election Day. Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC), who was appointed to replace her late brother Lindsey Graham in July, is running […]

President Donald Trump told reporters he was going to “make a determination” when asked whether the execution of the Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan should be livestreamed. “I’m going to make a determination about that, but he will be killed,” Trump said on Friday at the White House. “He will be, through firing squad. […]

Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was spotted on the campaign trail for the first time after a nearly two-week absence, an absence that drew heavy speculation. Talarico disappeared late last month in the homestretch of the critical Senate race. His campaign told the media on Friday that it was due to a diagnosis of […]