The Senate majority leader race is on. Or is it? Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is answering the calls of his Democratic colleagues who want new leadership when they take back control of Congress next year and is offering himself as an alternative to Charles E. Schumer.
At about 10:04 p.m. on Nov. 3, the Associated Press called the Texas Senate race for James Talarico. Roughly 16 minutes later, Ken Paxton conceded. The Republican attorney general had spent the better part of a year, in one of the most expensive Senate contests in American history, trying to hold a seat in a […]
Voters across the country rebuked President Donald Trump and the Republican Party in the Nov. 3 midterm elections, producing a powerful blue wave in the first major electoral test since his sweeping victory in 2024. The results were expected in battleground states, but not in Texas, a longtime bastion of conservatism that has maintained a […]
“We have a bunch of gangsters, thugs, punks, thieves, and drug smugglers running the country.” These words were spoken to me 36 years ago by Richard Morse, owner of the Hotel Oloffson, as we looked down from a balcony at Port-au-Prince, the fetid capital of Haiti. The Oloffson, built in the 19th century as a […]
Only in the United States can a company founded just six years ago become central to the efforts to maintain superiority over China or any other country in the broad spectrum of artificial intelligence. Moreover, only in the U.S. do the deep pools of risk capital exist that enable a new company to reach a […]
President Trump has been unafraid to publicly target liberal lawmakers and the media during his first 100 days in the White House, even trying out new nicknames on his critics.
The Senate is set to vote as soon as Wednesday evening on a resolution terminating the national emergency that President Trump has used to impose his across-the-board tariffs.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is not committing to a specific deadline for passing President Trump's legislative agenda package, even as other Republicans eye summer holidays as targets.
Buck Wehrbein, president of the NCBA, warns of a deadly fly threatening U.S. cattle, even after Mexico has begun allowing sterile fly planes to resume vital eradication efforts.
President Donald Trump laughs off a protester who attempted to disrupt a speech he was giving in Michigan marking his first 100 days in office, joking that he "thought it was a guy."
During a speech in Michigan marking his first 100 days in office, President Donald Trump slammed Democrats and Republican “grandstanders" opposing his budget reconciliation bill.
China released a defiant video on Trump’s 100th day in office, vowing to "never kneel" to U.S. tariffs, as Beijing escalates propaganda over trade tensions.
President Donald Trump marked his first 100 days of his second term with a political rally in Warren, Michigan, in front of thousands of supporters, during which he touted his first few months in the White House as the "most successful" in history.
On Tuesday, Tom Barrack, Tilman Fertitta and Warren Stephens three of President Trump's top ambassador nominees, faced their Senate confirmation votes.
Former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff lashed out at the Trump administration, accusing it of politicizing the Holocaust and dishonoring the memory of six million murdered Jews after he was removed from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
