Sen. Bill Cassidy said his 2021 vote to convict President Trump on a House impeachment charge of inciting the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol may have ended his political career, but he has no regrets.
The U.S. Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's pick to oversee the management of a quarter-billion acres of public lands on Monday, as the administration pushes ahead with more mining and drilling while reversing conservation plans.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Monday opened an investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) over its alleged funding of extremist groups it claimed to oppose. Last month, a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., indicted the SPLC on six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud and one count...
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is urging his Senate Republican colleagues to delay action on a budget reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement operations through 2029, in part because he said a proposal to spend $1 billion on the White House ballroom is “a major policy problem.” He threatened to vote no on the budget reconciliation...
Democrat Roy Cooper has an 11-point lead over Republican Michael Whatley in the Senate race in North Carolina, according to a new poll from The Carolina Journal/Harper Polling. The survey, released last week, found that nearly half of 600 likely voters in North Carolina said they would either “definitely” or “probably” back Cooper, the former...
On the first day of the 2026 legislative session, Nebraska lawmakers were asked Wednesday to consider a motion to expel a fellow senator accused of making a sexually-charged comment to a legislative staffer and touching her inappropriately during a session-end party last year.
Anti-alcohol advocates were behind a Biden administration study aimed at drastically changing the federal government's dietary guidelines on drinking, a House panel concluded.
President Trump says the U.S. and Colombia are planning White House talks after he warned President Gustavo Petro following the capture of Nicolás Maduro.
Congress should impeach two federal judges for misconduct despite the rarity of such action, Senator Ted Cruz argued Wednesday, citing gag orders and a lenient sentencing decision.
GOP rebels dealt a blow to Speaker Johnson as nine House Republicans joined Democrats to advance an Obamacare subsidy vote despite party leadership opposition.
President Donald Trump announces Venezuela will move 30-50 million barrels of oil worth $2.8 billion to U.S. after former President Nicolás Maduro's capture by American forces.
The Trump administration is withholding $160 million from California after the state allegedly failed to revoke over 17,000 unlawfully issued commercial licenses.
A top House Democrat said Wednesday that U.S. troops would be following "illegal orders" from President Trump if they used military force against Greenland without congressional authorization.
President Trump said that the woman fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent during operations in Minneapolis "violently, willfully and viciously" ran over the agent.
