Maine's Susan Collins, one of the last remaining moderates in the Republican-held Senate, passed on a chance to run for her state's governorship in 2018 and, in so doing, placed a major bet that the broken political system can be fixed.
President Donald Trump plans to end the cost-sharing subsidies that have helped some lower-income Americans purchase health insurance on the Obamacare marketplace, the White House announced Thursday.
New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, a Puerto Rican native, slammed the federal response in the wake of Hurricane Maria on Friday, saying the treatment of her home island has "racist undertones."
Maine Sen. Susan Collins said Friday she has decided to stay in the Senate, where she is a moderate Republican swing vote, rather than running for governor in 2018.
Republican leaders are trying to stem an issue that's causing division within their own party and threatening to stall movement in the tax reform push they're so desperately trying to win.
The National Rifle Association says it is opposed to new legislation in the US Senate and the House that would ban the production and sale of "bump fire stocks," a firearm accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire at a more rapid pace like automatic ones.
President Donald Trump's latest tweets regarding recovery efforts in Puerto Rico were a direct response to remarks made by San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz criticizing Trump's response to Hurricane Maria, a GOP source familiar with internal discussions said.
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz criticized President Donald Trump Thursday, saying "rather than being a commander-in-chief, he's like a hater-in-chief."
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said Thursday that Americans should be concerned about North Korea's ability to reach the United States with an intercontinental ballistic missile, cryptically telling reporters that if the threat grows "beyond where it is today, well, let's hope that diplomacy works."
The Trump administration asked a Chicago federal court Thursday for a two-month deadline extension on its decision assessing whether revealing secret details of a $17 billion commercial aircraft deal between Iran and Boeing would interfere with US foreign policy by obstructing a key component of the Iranian nuclear deal.
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday defended the GOP tax plan's elimination of the state and local tax deduction, which has become a major sticking point as Republicans from high-tax states aim to keep the deduction in place.
President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that Puerto Rico is going to have to shoulder more responsibility for recovery efforts from Hurricane Maria, saying the federal government's emergency responders can't stay there "forever."
California state Senate president Kevin de León intends to enter California's 2018 Democratic primary against Sen. Dianne Feinstein, three sources with knowledge of his plans say.
Businessman Tom Barrack has been a close friend of Donald Trump's for decades, and is now known as one of the President's whisperers, speaking with the commander-in-chief regularly and offering his advice from the outside.
The leaders of the House intelligence committee are warning that President Donald Trump associate Roger Stone will be slapped with a subpoena Friday if he does not reveal the name of his intermediary with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
The House ethics committee is investigating New York Rep. Chris Collins, the first Republican on Capitol Hill to endorse Donald Trump's presidential campaign, for potentially violating federal law and House rules regarding insider trading.
Let's start out with the caveat that President Donald Trump's Republicans control the entire federal government, so none of this is going to happen short of a mass rebellion against the President by his own party. Until that happens, the following is a purely academic discussion. But it is completely fascinating.
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