Republican Mike Rogers, who served in Congress for 14 years and chaired the House Intelligence Committee, is running for an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan that Democrats have held for over two decades.
Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that those responsible for the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and the ensuing violence at the U.S. Capitol must be held accountable -- even if that means Donald Trump.
Keen to avoid a repeat of the 2016 clown car that ended up coronating former President Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee, early backers of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) promised that he would quickly turn Trump's third shot at the Oval Office into a two-man race. Fewer than four months into DeSantis's hotly anticipated bid for the top job, he has failed to follow through on that promise.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is calling into question the Capitol physician’s diagnosis of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) latest freeze-up, saying it does not appear to look like dehydration. “I've practiced medicine for 25 years and it doesn't look like dehydration to me,” he told a group of reporters on Tuesday. “It looks like a focal...
Even as he neglects everything that matters in transportation, Buttigieg not shied away from an even more daunting task: overcoming his own record on race, so that maybe someday he won't get thumped quite so badly in South Carolina next time.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the capital of Ukraine Wednesday in an unannounced visit just hours after the city was struck by a Russian missile attack. Blinken’s trip to Kyiv is meant to show the United States’ “unwavering commitment to Ukraine’s democracy, territorial integrity and democracy,” according to State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller. ...
With former President Donald Trump now facing four indictments, one recalls Lloyd Bentsen’s famous remark that Dan Quayle was no Jack Kennedy. The appropriate parallel today is to say that Donald Trump is no Richard Nixon. The Trump-Nixon comparisons are facile but superficial and in crucial respects wrong. They ignore fundamental differences between a serious...
Who or what isn’t facing the heat in Washington? How many different ways can we use the word “meltdown”? Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), 81, appealed Tuesday for his colleagues’ confidence that he can do the job after two episodes he and his physicians chalk up to lightheadedness after a March concussion. Why does...