It’s time to stop living in the 1980s. Change who sits in those seats and who gets the questions.

The time to secure the Western Hemisphere is now, reinforcing it as a bastion of cooperation and shared Western values. 

In today’s issue: © The Associated Press | J. Scott Applewhite GOP Senate and Trump: Salutes or ‘cooling saucer’? President-elect Trump learned a few things about Congress during his first term in the White House. The question is which lessons he applies next year to his heady confidence that Republican majorities in the House and Senate...

President-elect Trump’s plans to reshape the federal workforce would allow him to fire wide swaths of career employees and replace them with political appointees — a move that comes as he has demanded loyalty at every level of government. Trump has said he will reissue an order released in the waning days of his first...

All eyes will be locked on the House Ethics Committee this week as it weighs whether to release its report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) following his nomination by President-elect Trump to serve as attorney general. The question of publishing the report has emerged as a heated debate on Capitol Hill, with some lawmakers...

Multiple Republican senators are looming as potential obstacles to President-elect Trump's controversial Cabinet picks, especially his two most polarizing choices: former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump has had a rocky relationship in the past with a handful of Republicans senators who won’t likely give him the same deference as loyal...

There are still eight uncalled House races that will determine the size of the Republican majority in Congress after the 2024 elections.

Sen. John Fetterman, a staunch supporter of Israel, says he looks forward to voting to confirm Rep. Elise Stefanik to serve as U.S. ambassador to the UN.

Group files civil rights complaint against Boston Public Schools over racially-segregated "affinity groups" teaching White teachers and parents how to be less racist.

Brendan Carr, current senior Republican member of the FCC and President-elect Donald Trump's choice for FCC chairman, said the agency will stop promoting DEI in 2025.