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Other Democratic candidates have secured the backing of much of their state’s congressional delegation, but no New York lawmaker has endorsed Ms. Gillibrand who is struggling to win over members of her home state congressional delegation,…

WASHINGTON - House Democrats passed H.R. 1, the comprehensive elections, finance and ethics reform package known as the “For The People Act,” with a 234-193 party line vote Friday. H.R. 1 is a broad measure, encompassing a wide…

WASHINGTON - Former Vice President Joe Biden is almost totally prepared to announce his bid for the White House, according to media reports. There’s just one big thing keeping him from pulling the trigger: concerns that President…

WASHINGTON - A lawyer for Michael Cohen says that the former Trump fixer directed his former attorney to inquire about a presidential pardon, a claim which, if true, would contradict Cohen’s congressional testimony on Feb. 27. Lanny…

GEORGIA - A Georgia House committee approved a bill Wednesday that seeks to ban abortions after an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detected, marking a significant push to expand abortion restrictions in the state. The House Health and…

NEW YORK - Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her top aide hold majority control over Justice Democrats, a left-wing PAC waging open war on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other establishment Democrats, according to…

CALIFORNIA - Zachary Greenberg pleaded not guilty Wednesday to attacking conservative activist Hayden Williams at the University of California at Berkeley on Feb. 19. “He was using the library at UC Berkeley to study,” Greenberg’s…

KINGSLAND - A Republican-backed bill to make it legal for Georgians to obtain, not just possess, limited amounts of medical marijuana oil cleared its first hurdle in the state’s House of Representatives Tuesday. The bill is…

ILLINOIS - Former Rep. Aaron Schock, a once-ascendant GOP heartthrob who used taxpayer money to elaborately decorate his office in the style of a TV show, will no longer face criminal charges after the Department of Justice took the…

WASHINGTON - House Democrats plan on demanding President Donald Trump release his tax returns within the next two weeks, as Democrats ramp up their investigations into the president and allies. “We’re almost ready to go,” said Rep.…

Utah Rep. Rob Bishop recently joined members of the Western Caucus at a public forum on the Green New Deal where he ate a hamburger in defiance of the sweeping proposal that’s backed by Democratic presidential candidates.Photo: House…

WASHINGTON - Twenty states will file a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump administration over its latest move to force abortion clinics to separate abortion from other health care services in order to qualify for Title X funding. The…

Political activist Linda Sarsour speaking to a crowd of onlookers at The Women’s March on Washington which took place one day after the Inauguration of President Donald Trump. Photo credit: C-SPAN. WASHINGTON - Women’s March co-chair…

Amy Oliver Cooke, director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center at the free-market Independence Institute during an interview on energy policy with Jon Caldara of Devil’s Advocate in 2014. Credit: Colorado Public Television,…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., last week during the Michael Cohen hearing as she questioned Cohen on whether President Donald Trump had intentionally misrepresented the value of his real estate assets in order to lower his tax…

WASHINGTON - Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul said 10 Republican Senators will vote against the resolution to terminate President Donald Trump’s national emergency for border wall funding Monday afternoon. Paul told a group of…

Belcalis Almánzar, known professionally as "Cardi B" seen in an expletive-filled video posted to social networking website Instagram where she vented her disapproval of the partial government shutdown. The video led to a heated exchange…

NEW YORK - Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer plans on proposing a special climate change committee, and will prepare climate change-related legislation in case Democrats win control of the Senate and White House in 2020. “This is…

NEW YORK – House Democratic leaders plan on bringing a resolution to the floor Wednesday after backlash from Jewish lawmakers, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and others to Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments on…

President Donald J. Trump, speaking in D.C. at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) while Bernie Sanders addresses a crowd in Brooklyn at Brooklyn College, both gave insight as to the nature of their respective future goals…

WASHINGTON - GOP California Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, called Monday for the public release of a transcript of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s closed-door testimony, in which Nunes…

ALABAMA - During a speech commemorating the anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” Hillary Clinton claimed white supremacist views are bring espoused in the White House, and she propagated conspiracy theories about the Georgia gubernatorial…

Left, Jim Jordan (R-OH) ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee questioning Michael Cohan; Right, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), questioning Acting Attorney General Whitaker. Photo Credit: C-SPAN. …

WASHINGTON – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler requested a number of documents from the White House and is sending letters seeking information from people and organizations close to President Donald Trump Monday.…

COLORADO - Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Monday that he is running for the White House. He joins a growing list of Democrats vying for the opportunity to spoil President Donald Trump’s reelection bid. “I’m running…

WASHINGTON - Former Vice President Joe Biden, who is reportedly on the verge of launching his third presidential campaign, has a history of making racially charged remarks. Biden’s history of questionable remarks on race looms as he…

WASHINGTON – Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is defending the FBI’s reliance on the Steele dossier as well as the bureau’s use of a confidential informant to make contact with the Trump campaign as part of an…