Former House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that Republicans will lose the presidential election if Donald Trump is the nominee and that he expects hard-right followers of Trump to force a government shutdown within days.
A federal judge threw out a Texas law prohibiting "sexually oriented performances" in public or where they may be viewed by children, saying the so-called "drag ban" represented an unconstitutional infringement on free speech.
A senior Pentagon official who earlier worked for Robert Malley, the State Department's special envoy to Iran who had his security clearance suspended earlier this year, is alleged to have been part of a soft-power influence operation created and managed by officials in Tehran.
Republican presidential hopefuls will be in for a treat Wednesday when they gather for their second candidate debate at the spectacular Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. The Republican National Committee, however, has issued a fact-based report on the event that offers insight for the hopefuls themselves -- but not much love for the host state.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) indicated on Tuesday he could force a vote on ousting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), suggesting the House will soon see if his Democratic colleagues “bail out our [its] failed Speaker.” “And the one thing I agree with my Democrat colleagues on is that for the last eight months, this House...
Eric Trump railed against a judge’s valuation of his father's Mar-a-Lago resort in a New York fraud case, claiming the Florida property could be worth over a billion dollars. “In an attempt to destroy my father and kick him out of New York, a judge just ruled that Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach Florida, is only...