(Headline USA) Republicans in the Michigan college town of Hillsdale last week confronted state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey for failing to stand up in support of conservative values.
"Shirkey has failed to provide effective opposition to Democrats in Lansing over his tenure," said Hillsdale County Republican Party Chairman Daren...
(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump fumed that his attorneys’ performance on the opening day of his second impeachment trial was a disaster, as allies and Republican senators questioned the strategy and some called for yet another shakeup to his legal team.
Trump, who watched the proceedings in Washington from his...
(Headline USA) Senators voted to approve House Democrats' impeachment do-over against former president Donald Trump, casting off discursive arguments by Trump’s defense team to halt the trial because he is no longer in office.
Six Republicans joined the Senate's 50 Democrats in the 56-44 on Tuesday to determine whether the...
(Headline USA) In one of his first acts as new chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., on Tuesday urged President Joe Biden to reconsider his executive order revoking a presidential permit for the long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Manchin has yet to lead a hearing since...
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the lead House impeachment manager, opened the impeachment do-over against President Donald Trump by promising to avoid dull, academic arguments---before immediately launching into one.
Even though Trump is no longer in office, Democrats are hoping to prevent him from a contentious 2024 election rematch.
They have maintained...
Senators scoffed during a confirmation hearing Tuesday at President Joe Biden's attempt to install a radical ideologue in control of an often overlooked but influential government agency.
The Office of Management and Budget wields considerable behind-the-scenes policy-making influence when it comes to managing and keeping greased the wheels of the...
More than a month since the Jan. 6 uprising at the US Capitol, public information remains scant about the deaths of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt and Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, the only two casualties that reportedly came as a direct result of violence in the conflict.
Rosanne Boyland...
Yet another Nebraska county’s Republican Party voted to censure Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., for “dismissing the legitimate concerns” about voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election and blaming former President Donald Trump for the Jan. 6 Capitol siege.
Sasse has ignored Nebraska’s Secretary of State, attorney general, and “a huge...
Arizona Republican lawmakers failed to hold the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in contempt after a GOP defector broke ranks and joined Democrats in voting against the measure.
The state Senate voted on a resolution that would have found Maricopa County in contempt for its refusal to cooperate with the...
Both sides praised the bipartisan agreement for Senate rules established Monday as the second attempt to convict former president Donald Trump was set to begin Tuesday.
"President Trump and his counsel are pleased that there was bipartisan support on how to structure the impeachment trial. We appreciate that Senate Republican...
A Massachusetts climate official said normal Americans who drive gas-fueled cars and heat their homes need to have their “will” broken in order to effectively fight climate change.
David Ismay, Massachusetts’s undersecretary for climate change, said during a virtual meeting with the Vermont Climate Council that targeting middle class families...
(Headline USA) Republican Rep. Ron Wright of Texas, who had lung cancer and was hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19 last month, has died, his office said Monday. He was 67.
Wright died Sunday, spokesman Matt Langston said. He said he didn't know the cause of death, but the two-term...