(Headline USA) Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy was taken to a hospital Tuesday evening after not feeling well, a spokesman said, hours after the 80-year-old Democrat began presiding over the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.
Leahy, who'd been in his Capitol office, was taken to the hospital “out of...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, called on President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency this week, calling it the nation’s real emergency.
Prior to leaving office, President Donald Trump re-upped his declaration of a national emergency at the US southern border, extending extra powers and resources to the...
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., filed a counter-complaint on Monday against seven Democrat senators who asked the Ethics Committee to investigate him for his decision to object to the Electoral College’s certification on Jan 6.
In a letter to Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Chris Coons, D-Del., Hawley argued that the...
Former President Donald Trump established an official post-presidency office on Monday, which will help him keep his political options open in the days ahead.
Office of the Former President.
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— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) January 26, 2021
The Office of the Former President will manage Trump’s correspondence, public statements, appearances and other...
(Headline USA) Senators took oaths Tuesday to ensure “impartial justice” as jurors in Donald Trump's unconstitutional impeachment trial, after the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol.
But some Republican senators are challenging the legitimacy of the trial and whether Trump's repeated questioning of the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s election really constitute...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined a growing number of Democratic officials who are lifting coronavirus restrictions now that former President Donald Trump is out of office.
He announced on Monday that the state will be adjusting its restrictions “in the coming days,” citing a decline in positive cases and...
President Joe Biden brought in more “dark money” from anonymous contributors than any other presidential candidate in history, according to a recent Bloomberg analysis.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden reportedly reeled in $145 million in anonymous contributions. The previous record of $113 million had been set by Sen. Mitt...
A state judge ruled that the Virginia Board of Elections’s rule allowing officials to count mail-in ballots that arrived late without a postmark is illegal, and ordered state officials to repeal it this week.
Virginia Circuit Court Judge William Eldridge ruled that the state’s late mail-in ballot law violated state...
With the floodgates now opening on what had been a slow drip of details in the FBI's Russia collusion conspiracy/hoax, the concerted effort to smear former Trump adviser Carter Page has come further into focus.
Had it not succeeded, the trap might have been considered desperate or comically inept, seemingly...
(Associated Press) Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell backed off his demand that Senate Democrats preserve the procedural tool known as the filibuster, easing a standoff with new Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as the two negotiated a power-sharing agreement in the closely divided chamber.
McConnell said late Monday he had essentially accomplished...
Being put in charge of the U.S. government’s finances in 2021 is a bit like being appointed captain of the Titanic in 1912.
More to the point, trying to avert a financial disaster ahead in the current environment is akin to trying to steer a doomed ship away from a...
(Headline USA) Ohio Sen. Rob Portman said Monday that he won't seek reelection to a third term in 2022, expressing dismay with the deep partisanship and dysfunction in American politics.
The career establishment Republican with a reputation for bipartisanship cited a political climate that has made it "harder to break...