No evidence that Sen. Mitch McConnells public freeze ups are caused by strokes or seizures, Capitol doctor says

The speaker had hoped moving forward on other spending bills this week would help unstick his holdouts. No dice.

WASHINGTON As the Senate marches ahead with a bipartisan approach to prevent a government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is back to square one asking...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A former Tennessee state senator can stay out of prison as he challenges his 21-month sentence for violating federal campaign finance...

By Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent @awzurcher Time is running out for Republican presidential hopefuls not named Donald Trump. While this is only...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)has expressed his desire to meet withPresident Joe Biden to renegotiate a budget deal, as he seeks to satisfy House...

With a Sept. 30 deadline looming, hard-right House Republicans have formed a wall of opposition to a temporary measure to fund the government. Speaker Kevin...

Republican hopefuls for president slammed President Joe Biden, each other and minimally but notably absent front-runner Donald Trump as they engaged in a...

In a stop in Arizona, a key battleground state in next years election, the president plans to embrace the longtime Republican senator and vocal Trump critic....

Mitt Romney polled his fellow GOP senators during a private lunch on Wednesday: How many of them would prefer a clean government funding patch over the bill...

To accurately measure the metabolism of Donald Trumps 2024 presidential campaign we must invoke the images and manners of the bestiarys most indolent and...

A short-term funding measure aimed at averting a government shutdown received opposition from 19 Senate Republicans during a Tuesday vote, The Hill reported....

Seven Republican presidential hopefuls gathered at the Reagan Library in California on Wednesday for the second of the partys primary debates. The contest's...

Senator Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., was the lone Democrat to vote against the SAFER cannabis banking bill Wednesday, saying that the bill would do nothing to...

Minneapolis Star Tribune. September 26, 2023. Editorial: GOP created and must clean up shutdown mess Even Speaker Kevin McCarthy acknowledges the threats...

By Madeline Halpert BBC News Cassidy Hutchinson is the former White House aide who MSNBC said "gave some of the most compelling, damning and explosive...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday the Senate's proposed continuing resolution to fund the government is unlikely to advance in the House as a...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy notched a modest achievement in his effort to navigate a solution to a looming spending crisis, clearing a procedural hurdle...

Democrats control the Senate, though, and the current CR with its $6 billion each for Ukraine and disaster funding reflects their priorities.

Former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey used his first answer of the debate to attack the absent former President Donald J. Trump. Gov. Ron DeSantis of...

Tim Scott, Chris Christie and Doug Burgum are still polling in low single digits nationally, while former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson failed to qualify for...