Republican Rep. Tom McClintock faced jeers, boos and shouts of "do your job" at a town hall meeting in his California district Saturday, but one thing the crowd liked was his stance on Syria -- precisely because he criticized President Donald Trump's decision to strike an air base in that country on Thursday.
Thirty minutes before he'd face riled-up constituents in a Saturday afternoon town hall here, Rep. Ryan Costello looked out the window of his second-floor office.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke by phone with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Saturday about the situation in Syria following Thursday's strikes on a Syrian air base, Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a post on its official Facebook page.
A local Georgia radio station has edited out a false claim made in an NRA attack ad about Democratic congressional candidate Jon Ossoff's upbringing, CNN's KFile has learned.
Sen. Rand Paul said Saturday that he wants Congress to exercise its constitutional authority to declare war before any further actions in Syria. And he had sharp words for those who say a post-9/11 law gives President Trump that power, calling them "dishonest" and "not intellectually serious."
The US attack on a Syrian air base Thursday devastated an airfield, sent a stark message to Syria and its protector Russia and raised a host of questions about whether and how the Trump administration's stance on the Middle East might change.
Ed Gillespie has embraced much of the pedigree that makes him a political heavyweight: a praised chair of the Republican National Committee; a senior adviser to George W. Bush during the waning days of his presidency; and today, the prohibitive favorite to serve as the Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia.
House Republicans spent five weeks trying to repeal Obamacare. For their troubles, they didn't pass a bill, but instead ended up with eroded trust within their own ranks and with President Donald Trump that threatens to plague the GOP in the months ahead.
Two days after footage of a grisly chemical weapons attack on civilians made its way around the world, President Donald Trump decided to launch a military strike against the Syrian regime responsible for the horrific attack.
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Friday blamed Russia for Syria's links to chemical weapons, condemning Moscow for breaking an agreement to dispose of Syria's stock of deadly gas.
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping established a new framework for high-level negotiations on a range of issues and pledged to make progress on trade negotiations within the next 100 days during meetings here Thursday and Friday, top US officials said.
In a pair of statements, one a day before and another just after he launched a missile strike against Syria on Thursday, President Donald Trump told Americans that the chemical weapons attack launched by the Assad regime on its own people fundamentally altered his view of the long, bloody conflict.
The White House released a photo Friday of President Donald Trump receiving a national security briefing in regard to the US strike on a Syrian airbase, retaliation for the chemical weapons attack earlier this week.
The United States launched a military strike on Syrian government targets in retaliation for their chemical weapon attack on civilians earlier in the week, the US government announced Thursday.
On the orders of President Donald Trump, US warships launched between 50-60 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian government airbase. US officials said the base was home to warplanes that carried out a chemical attack against civilians earlier in the week.
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