North Carolina Congressman Walter Jones passed away Sunday, on his 76th birthday. Once a supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he underwent a dramatic change of heart and emerged as one of the most prominent critics of the war.
The justices may yet consider whether the 2014 law — requiring doctors at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals — unduly burdens women’s access to abortion.
Virginia’s top three Democratic leaders are all embroiled in scandals this morning that threaten to end their political careers.
For many historians, President Trump decrying the investigation was eerily reminiscent of Richard Nixon’s 1974 State of the Union.
The subpoena indicates that prosecutors are investigating crimes related to conspiracy to defraud the United States, mail fraud, false statements, wire fraud and money laundering.
Calling the Sunday night meeting was a clear signal of Northam’s effort to weigh support within the administration as he evaluates his options.
The presidents new comments came as Nancy Pelosi once again insisted a deal would not include any wall funding, which the president has called a prerequisite.
The era of accommodation on Capitol Hill is over, as President Trump faces an increasingly adversarial Congress — in both parties.
Leaders of the intelligence community repeatedly offered assessments during congressional testimony yesterday that are starkly at odds with proclamations made by President Trump, who appointed each of them.
While federal employees tried to get the government back up to speed yesterday, the possibility of another shutdown in just three weeks hangs over every office.
President Trump is again considering declaring a national emergency at the southern border to get wall funding after he agreed to end the shutdown without any of his demands met.
A tense lunch between the vice president and the Senate GOP highlight the toll the shutdown has taken on Republican lawmakers.
After a day of scathing back-and-forth between Trump and Nancy Pelosi, the president announced last night that he will indefinitely postpone his State of the Union address until after the shutdown ends.
The Trump administration last week ordered at least 30,000 IRS workers back to their offices, where they have been working to process refunds without pay. But employees across the country won't be clocking in.
The government shutdown drew no closer to an end over the holiday weekend, with the House and Senate planning to pursue separate bills that are both expected to die before reaching Trump’s desk. Meanwhile, some Trump supporters are turning on him for it.
As tensions flare between the president and Democrats, the shutdown looks likely to drag into its second month.
The president has shown more and more frustration as negative coverage mounts of his role in the government shutdown.
The landslide vote was pure humiliation for a British leader who has spent the past two years trying to sell her vision of Brexit to a skeptical public.
The Republican congressman from Iowa questioned how the term “white supremacist” came to be considered offensive.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested temporarily reopening the government while continuing negotiations.
The White House continues laying the groundwork to declare a national emergency to get money for President Trump’s border wall, and they’re looking seriously at tapping disaster relief funds.
The White House beefed up its legal team and plans to aggressively invoke executive privilege in a bid to contain the potential fallout of Bob Mueller’s report and to curtail oversight by House Democrats.
In a nationally televised address from the Oval Office last night, Trump declared “a growing humanitarian and security crisis” at the southern border to make the case for his proposed wall.
Trump administration officials made an urgent case on Monday that the situation at the border with Mexico has reached a crisis level, laying the groundwork for the president to possibly declare a national emergency.
White House national security adviser John Bolton said that several “objectives” must be achieved before a pullout from Syria could take place.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic-controlled House plan to push through legislation to reopen the federal government. But the measure has been declared dead on arrival in the GOP-led Senate.
A scathing op-ed by the incoming senator and 2012 GOP presidential nominee is a thunderclap in the Republican Party.
President Trump invited congressional leaders to the White House for a briefing on border security, the first face-to-face session involving Republicans and Democrats as the partial government shutdown entered its second week.
Democrats have settled on a strategy for attempting to reopen the government when they take control of the House on Thursday, aimed at ending the partial shutdown quickly — but denying President Trump the new money he wants for a border wall.
Trump's latest overtures in the wake of the midterm elections stand in stark contrast to the historical behavior of modern presidents, who have moved at least briefly toward the political center after being humbled at the ballot box.
