Both parties denounced violence after Kirk’s killing, but GOP and Democrats are divided on whether fiery rhetoric or guns are fueling the current crisis of political violence.

Four lawmakers bucked their party in Friday's votes on a Republican stopgap bill to fund the government, which passed the House but was blocked by Democrats in the Senate. House Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) were the only GOP no votes in the House, while Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) was the sole...

President Trump said on Friday that he ordered another strike on a ship in the Caribbean allegedly transporting narcotics, the third such attack this month. "On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility," Trump...