It’s a problem when Republicans claim Trump’s abuses are legal. It’s vastly worse when they don’t care whether the abuses are legal or not.

The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is overseeing a new Department of Government Efficiency. Billionaires or ...

Sen. Murkowski is now the third most senior Republican member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and when Kentucky ...

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House GOP Leader Rep. Lisa Demuth, R-Cold Spring, is sworn in after being voted in by only Republicans as speaker on the first day of the 2025 Legislature. Democrats' desks were empty in protest.

In the Legislature, for example, while over half the seats currently are held by Republicans, both the House and Senate are ...

TRUMP GOES GLOBAL — As we previewed in Playbook this morning, Trump delivered his America First agenda to dignitaries huddled in Davos for the World Economic Forum.

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“Think of any of the major republican political, organisational shifts or initiatives taken over recent decades. Ted was at the heart of all of them,” he wrote in the Andersonstown News.

WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled Senate is aiming to pass a bill to crack down on illegal immigration in the coming days, with the hope of sending it to incoming President Donald Trump ...

Exactly what U.S. president-elect Donald Trump plans to do with his tariff threat remains a mystery to Canadian officials and most Republicans, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan ...

Since November, there has been a lot of discussion about the so-called “diploma divide” seen in the election results, where the majority of voters without a four-year college degree voted for ...