The majority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, promised that repeal would be the first order of business. But this does … Mr. McConnell could try to extend the limited prohibition on filibusters to include Supreme Court nominees, lowering …
WASHINGTON – House Republicans, overriding their top leaders, voted on Monday to significantly curtail the power of an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the aftermath of corruption scandals that sent three members of Congress to jail …
HONOLULU – President Obama will give a farewell address next week from Chicago, his hometown, most likely his last chance to defend his legacy directly to the country before Donald J. Trump is sworn in, the White House announced on Monday.
Donald Trump has narrowed his short list for his first Supreme Court pick down to roughly a half-dozen finalists but the president-elect and his top advisers are already thinking about a second selection, as they seek to quickly remodel the high court …
A last-ditch effort for President Obama to try and punch Merrick Garland through to the Supreme Court to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia is unlikely.
… and national level. “I love President Obama, but he and his administration allowed for the deterioration, the terrible deterioration, of the state parties over the last eight years,” said Mark Brewer, who led the Michigan Democratic Party for 18 …
Ten days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, President Barack Obama will say goodbye from the same city that launched his political career.
President Obama at a his final campaign event in 2012. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times. I first became interested in politics as a middle school student in the late 1990s, when sexual scandal and presidential impeachment dominated national …
Top House Democrats gave more clues Monday about how they’ll fight GOP efforts to repeal ObamaCare, sharing enrollment figures and stories about Americans saved by the health care law, ahead of President Obama’s visit Wednesday. Obama makes the trip to …
Most political parties select candidates in various districts based on caste and religious considerations. Monday’s Supreme Court ruling warned politicians who disqualify election candidates based on these two factors. The court ruling said: “Religion …
House Republicans have voted to put the independent Office of Congressional Ethics under control of the Ethics Committee — a move that Democrats slammed in the hours before the new Congress is sworn in. “Republicans claim they want to … of the new …
Democratic senators plan to aggressively target eight of Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees in the coming weeks and are pushing to stretch their confirmation votes into March – an unprecedented break with Senate tradition. … “Any attempt by Republicans…
Americans have little confidence in President-elect Donald Trump’s abilities to handle his presidential duties, with less than half of Americans saying they trust him to prevent major scandals, handle an international crisis, or use military force …
But in Wisconsin last month, during a leg of his “Thank You” tour, he appeared to give the opposite impression, recounting a lengthy discussion he had with his wife on election night. “But anyway- so I got the bad news from my daughter,” he told the …
“They’re trying to delegitimize the Trump administration as it goes into the White House,” Assange said during an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity airing Tuesday night, according to a transcript of excerpts from the network.
In the waning hours of his presidency, Barack Obama has designated more than 1.5 million acres for two new national monuments – Bears Ears in Utah and Gold Butte in Nevada.
Anshu Jain, who was forced to step down from the top job at Deutsche Bank after a series of regulatory mishaps, will join the private trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald this month as group president. The appointment, which was announced in an internal …
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