Roy Moore vows to run for U.S. Senate again in 2020, even though Trump tweets he 'cannot win'
Alabama Republican Roy Moore announced Thursday that he is running for U.S. Senate again in 2020 after failing to win the seat two years ago amid sexual misconduct accusations. With his return to the political stage, Moore faces a crowded GOP primary field as he ...
Lawmakers on Wednesday held the first congressional hearing in more than a decade on reparations, spotlighting the debate over whether the United States should consider compensation for the descendants of slaves in the United States. The witnesses at the House Judiciary subcommittee included actor and ...
Comic Jon Stewart keeps up pressure on Mitch McConnell over 9/11 victims' fund
Comic Jon Stewart used his buddy Stephen Colbert's late-night show to keep the heat on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for passage of legislation to replenish a victims' fund for first responders to the 9/11 attacks. Stewart mocked McConnell on Colbert's "Late Show" Monday night, ...
GOP's Mitch McConnell: 'We'd fill' any Supreme Court vacancy in 2020
Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell says that if a vacancy occurs on the Supreme Court during next year's election cycle the chamber would likely confirm a GOP nominee selected by President Donald Trump. In an appearance Tuesday in Paducah, Kentucky, McConnell told a questioner that ...
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday sought to slam the door on further investigations of President Donald Trump by declaring "case closed" after a two-year probe of Russia's meddling in the 2016 elections, even as House Democrats' war with the White House ...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to force votes next week on a Republican plan to change the Senate's rules to short-circuit Democrats' ability to slow nominations from President Donald Trump. McConnell announced the rules change on the Senate floor Thursday, setting up a potential ...
Republicans, for third time in a week, block effort seeking Robert Mueller report release
For the third time in a week, U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a measure calling for special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian election interference to be publicly released. Amid the squabble over the timing and scope of the release, a senior Republican senator ...
Andrew McCabe says 'Gang of Eight' lawmakers didn't object when FBI opened Trump probe
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said congressional leaders — Republicans and Democrats — didn't object when he informed them in 2017 that the bureau was opening a counterintelligence investigation into President Donald Trump. "That's the important part here," McCabe said in an interview Tuesday ...
Trump seen edging toward border deal to avert a 'terrible' second U.S. shutdown
President Donald Trump is eyeing a path to avoid another government shutdown where he would reluctantly accept the congressional border-security deal and attempt to tap other funds for his wall. Trump is likely to grudgingly sign the legislation and then immediately use his executive authority ...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made a rare break with President Donald Trump and proposed a measure urging the U.S. to continue the fight against Islamic State and al-Qaida in Syria and Afghanistan and avoid any "precipitous withdrawal." McConnell said an amendment he plans to ...
U.S. Senate leaders on both sides rekindle talks on ending shutdown
U.S. Senate leaders from both parties met Thursday in a renewed bid to end a month-long shutdown, as the White House signaled its openness to a three-week government funding bill to allow negotiations over border security to proceed. After dueling Senate measures to end the ...
Rep. Liz Cheney suggests GOP colleague Steve King 'find another line of work' after racist remarks
Republicans are dialing up the pressure on Rep. Steve King, with one GOP leader suggesting Tuesday that the nine-term Iowan leave Congress after the latest in a string of what she called his "racist" comments. "I'd like to see him find another line of work," ...
