(Headline USA) The House Ethics Committee upheld a $5,000 fine against Rep. Louie Gohmert on Tuesday after he was accused of failing to submit to a full security screening when entering the chamber's floor last month.
The penalty levied on the Texas Republican was imposed after the House adopted screening...
(Headline USA) Beyond roads and bridges, President Joe Biden is trying to redefine infrastructure not just as an investment in America the place, but in its workers, families and people.
The first phase of his "Build Back Better" package to be unveiled Wednesday in Pittsburgh would unleash $2 trillion in...
Former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump launched a new website that will allow supporters to participate in events, submit letters, and keep up to date with the Trumps’ political future.
The former president’s office unveiled the new website, 45office.com, on Monday and said the former first...
(Headline USA) When former President Donald Trump was asked to list those he considers the future leaders of the Republican Party, he quickly rattled off names including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz.
Conspicuously absent from the list: Mike Pence.
The former vice president is steadily reentering...
Some House Democrats seem resigned to losing their seats in the 2022 midterm elections as the redistricting that occurs after the decennial census could make their districts more favorable to Republicans, Politico reported.
Although they do not yet know how the new districts will be designed, Democratic representatives in Republican-controlled...
(Headline USA) South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Monday killed a bill that would have banned "transgender" biological men from female sports, then later issued weaker executive orders that include restrictions but which conservatives decried as political face-saving.
Lawmakers in more than 20 states have introduced similar bans this year, with...
(Headline USA) Critics of Georgia's new Republican-backed election law issued fresh calls Monday to boycott some of the state's largest businesses for not speaking out more forcefully against the law, a day after advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging it.
In a letter to more than 90,000...
(Associated Press) An early Republican candidate announced plans Monday to seek the Alaska U.S. Senate seat that has been held since 2002 by Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
Kelly Tshibaka, who has led the sprawling Alaska Department of Administration since early 2019, in a statement said she is running "for the Alaskans...
The pollster for Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said that Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham would have won North Carolina's 2020 race if he had not been caught cheating on his wife, The Washington Examiner reported.
"Lots of politicians have had affairs," said Glen Bolger, a top Republican pollster who advised...
(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) As I warned last fall, Democrats are pushing to make Washington, DC, America’s 51st state.
Republicans are resisting this idea, as well they should. Democrats, in turn, blame the GOP’s reluctance on---what else?---“Racism!”
“Now today the state of DC would be 46% black, which would make it...
(Headline USA) Vice President Kamala Harris won’t be on the ground at the Southwest border anytime soon as she becomes the public face of an escalating immigration crisis that shows no signs of improving.
Many have speculated that the radical leftists within the Biden administration, including the vice president, favor...
(Headline USA) Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp pushed back forcefully after President Joe Biden injected himself into the state's political debate over how to ensure the integrity of its elections.
Biden on Friday called the state's recently passed SB 202 law “outrageous” and urged Congress to move quickly on its own...