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The fight over the North Carolina Supreme Court race is just a preliminary test run, foreshadowing a far bigger “elephant” in ...

GOP Sen. Schmitt says Gabbard will ‘curb the excesses’ of the intelligence community: Full interview 09:22 Sen. Mark Kelly: GOP senators ‘left with more questions’ than answers after Tulsi ...

Gretchen Whitmer ends her time in that office. Nesbitt, a Republican from Lawton, held the top Republican role in the state Senate as its minority leader during the recently concluded legislative ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries put GOP leaders on notice Thursday that they can’t take Democratic votes for granted when it comes to lifting the statutory debt ceiling by this summer’s ...

GOP Senate Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said: "Party unity is the consensus on the reconciliation strategy." The disagreement leaves the future murky for Trump's campaign promises, even as he moves ...

They say that, too, resonates strongly with voters. “It carries so much more emotional weight,” said Republican state Rep. Ron Bryce, a doctor from southeastern Kansas. “We’re talking about children ...

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina said he was surprised by the scope of President Trump's pardon of Jan. 6 rioters. Lisa Desjardins reports on that reaction and a Republican strategy ...

WASHINGTON — A handful of Republican senators pushed back Tuesday against President Donald Trump’s decision to issue pardons to roughly 1,500 criminal defendants and commute the sentences of ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

When the idea of pardons for Jan. 6 defendants first circulated, the pushback from Republican senators was pretty swift. And even the few who entertained the idea drew a line at pardoning the ...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) shot down rumors that he would switch to the Republican Party. Speaking to Semafor, Fetterman dismissed such rumors as “amateur hour s***,” vowing to remain with the ...