Attorney General Jeff Sessions acquitted himself quite well in testimony Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee. The focus on Sessions, in relation to the investigation into Russian ...

The most eventful thing about the early part of Sen. Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing for U.S. Attorney General has been the number of protesters. Perhaps most memorably so far, not only were there ...

If there was any lesson to glean about the state of racism in America on Tuesday, it did not come from the farewell address by our nation’s first black president. Many of us might have believed in ...

While the police officers responsible for killing Alton Sterling can rest easy tonight knowing that they will not face criminal charges for murder, an activist was convicted on criminal misdemeanor ...

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A series of protests disrupted the opening minutes of the confirmation hearing for attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., with opponents of the nominee apparently staggering their ...

Booker’s office said that it consulted the Senate historian and this would mark the first time a sitting senator would testify against another sitting senator during a confirmation hearing for a ...

On Tuesday afternoon, less than a week after the James Comey hearing, Washington, D.C., once again turned its eyes to the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill. This time, however, the nation ...

Sen. Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, is set to be questioned by the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, the first of Trump's cabinet nominees to face a ...