Pointing to records that they say regulators intentionally withheld, a congressional committee says there is more evidence than ever that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau obstructed oversight of Wells Fargo’s fraudulent accounts scandal.
Read moreIn Alabama’s runoff election for the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat, Luther Strange may have the crowning endorsement of President Donald Trump, but Roy Moore seemed to have support from beyond the grave.
Read moreOn Sept. 26, Republican voters in Alabama will head to voting booths to decide a runoff election between Roy Moore and Luther Strange that’s more than just picking another U.S. senator. The Alabama runoff has become a fight over the style – not substance – of the candidates and could signal how the GOP base thinks of Congress.
Read moreThe majority of Americans in both political parties hold teachers and members of the military in high regard, but are starkly divided in their opinions of police and college professors, according to a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday.
Read moreOhio Gov. John Kasich joined friend and ex-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s effort to overhaul partisan political map-making that’s helped fuel their own Republican party’s rise to power.
Read moreSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters on Wednesday he will support a deal between congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump on a short-term package to raise the debt ceiling and fund the government.
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An Iowa Republican Party leader who is running for state treasurer has been ordered to stay away from his ex-fiancée after allegedly threatening her and admittedly using her iTunes account’s “Find iPhone” app to track her whereabouts.
Read moreA conservative county mayor moved a step closer to seizing the seat of retired U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, after winning a Utah Republican primary dogged by negative campaigning.
Read moreThe Republican race to fill a Utah congressional seat abandoned by Jason Chaffetz is pitting the party establishment, which is backing a popular mayor with a Democratic past, against further-right conservatives who are divided between two candidates with support from national GOP heavy-hitters.
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Asking a federal judge to crack down on campaign-finance violations, a political watchdog group claims that regulators dropped the ball.
Read moreSince the election of President Donald Trump, Republicans have become far more hopeful about the country and its future – although many still feel like their side is losing more often than it’s winning, according to a Pew Research Center report released Friday.
Read moreAfter Senate Republicans narrowly voted to bring their health care bill to the floor Tuesday, President Donald Trump told supporters in Ohio that lawmakers are closer to getting rid of the “Obamacare nightmare.”
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Multiple state Republican parties do not have standing to challenge the Securities and Exchange Commission’s revised rules on campaign contributions made by municipal security advisers and dealers, according to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Read moreSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the latest GOP health care bill Thursday, making a bid for conservative support by letting insurers sell low-cost, skimpy policies to consumers while seeking to appease moderates with billions added to combat opioid abuse.
Read moreRepublicans have an increasingly dim view of colleges and universities and the effect those institutions have on the way things are going in the United States, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Monday.
Read moreThe initial GOP bill to repeal and replace the nation’s health law is probably “dead” and President Donald Trump’s proposal to just repeal it appears to be a “non-starter,” two moderate Republican senators indicated Sunday as their party scrambled to salvage faltering legislation.
Read moreGlossing over an editorial that linked Sarah Palin to the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, an attorney for New York Times told a federal judge Friday that there was no malicious intent.
Read moreCalifornia Gov. Jerry Brown joined Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris on Tuesday to speak out against the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the U.S. Senate’s version of a new health care bill.
Read morePublic support for same-sex marriage is at its highest level ever, with Republicans virtually split on the issue, according to a Pew Research Center study released Monday.
Read moreAmericans think Democrats care more about the middle class than Republicans, although public criticism of both parties remains high, according to a Pew Research survey released Tuesday.
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