Steve Scalise

Tom Cotton over a stalled bill to establish year-round daylight saving time is throwing an unexpected twist in the Arkansas Republican’s reelection race and sets up a fierce fight in the Senate this fall over the biannual changing of clocks

In today’s edition, Jonathan Allen digs into the growing number of Republicans on the ballot this fall who are putting distance between themselves and President Donald Trump

Unforeseen AI data center demand threatens power grids and water supplies

Al Jazeera’s Emma Withrow reports on how they’re turning questions of national identity and events in the Middle East into campaign ammunition

His spirited, swashbuckling remarks were the capstone to a day in which Republicans — including multiple cabinet secretaries, sitting congressmen, and hopeful candidates — pilloried Democrats as “crazy communists,” dabbled in Islamophobia and used profanity that would have made the some old guard GOP blush

His spirited, swashbuckling remarks were the capstone to a day in which Republicans — including multiple cabinet secretaries, sitting congressmen, and hopeful candidates — pilloried Democrats as “crazy communists,” dabbled in Islamophobia and used profanity that would have made the some old guard GOP blush

Trump Raves About RNC Night One, Despite Empty Seats and NFL Competition

Both used flagrantly unconstitutional means to cleanse the nation of the spectral menace

A White House official declined to elaborate, directing Newsweek instead to Leavitt's briefing remarks and comments Trump made during a speech in Georgia on Wednesday criticizing the Senate's handling of the legislation

House Speaker has faced internal revolt while trying to steer his razor-thin majority in the direction of passing legislation aligned with Trump’s agenda

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson wants to move all three priorities through Congress as quickly as possible

And what Trump and the Republican Party have settled on to spearhead their campaign against the Democratic Party is the threat of communism

Ken Griffin Has Poured $40 Million Into Helping Republicans Win the Midterms

House Speaker Mike Johnson is in an uncomfortably familiar spot: under pressure from President Trump, under fire from members and under the gun to advance a reconciliation bill in just a few days

House Rejects Renewing Broad Spy Power in Fight Over Pulte

Republicans continued their dominance in the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity on Wednesday night at Nationals Park, topping the Democrats 11-2 and extending the club’s winning streak to six consecutive seasons

A drone boat rescued two Army aviators who were aboard the Apache attack helicopter when it went down near the waterway that Iran has effectively closed during its war with the U.S. and Israel

But these conspiracy theories don't withstand scrutiny, nor do they make much political sense

While the program is intended to target non-Americans abroad, it can also sweep up communications involving Americans

Failing to comply with the warnings comes with penalties as high as $2 million annually for each recipient that doesn't create a plan to post clear pricing data

Speaker Mike Johnson is hoping to have the votes today to send an immigration enforcement bill to President Donald Trump's desk

Putin rules out talks with Zelenskyy, demands broader Ukraine deal first

Those blasting the draft include the three House Democrats whom Jeffries has empowered to chart the party’s course on the technology

Trump’s ICE funding pushed through Senate

Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., seeks to cement U.S. assistance for Ukraine by providing more than $1 billion in security and reconstruction aid

Among the issues currently impacting college athletics is how schools are going to afford to keep up with those within the Big Ten and SEC, who are also opposed to any type of law that would have them needing to approve pooling media rights with other conferences

Before bringing it up, Republicans followed through on a decision they made late last month to jettison $1 billion in security funds for Mr. Trump’s ballroom and other White House renovations, which had drawn a mini-revolt within his party

House Leaders Cancel Iran War Vote Amid GOP Absences

The scale of the political challenges facing Republicans were further underscored Tuesday with the administration’s latest cost estimate for the Iran war surpassing $29 billion and a brutal inflation report showing gas, grocery and housing prices surging last month amid the conflict

On Monday, leaders were said to be discussing how to proceed, according to people familiar with the discussions and granted anonymity to speak candidly

His reported column chronicles the inside conversations and major trends shaping U.S. politics

As peace talks between the United States, Israel and Iran stall, gas prices will likely not fall anytime soon

An April 21 AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey, also from this week, echoed the Times' findings, placing Trump's overall approval at roughly one-third of Americans, with even weaker ratings on the economy and cost of living, issues that historically drive midterm outcomes

Saturday’s dinner underscored the challenges of protecting so many high-profile people, especially at a time when anti-government violence is at a 30-year high

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, White House communications director Steven Cheung and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday bashed journalists and congressional Democrats for what they called divisive rhetoric

One uncomfortable question was all it took for President Trump to resume hostilities with the Washington press, less than 24 hours after their shared brush with death

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche defended Kash Patel on Sunday after he was asked whether President Donald Trump still has confidence in the FBI director amid reports in The Atlantic about alleged excessive drinking and the attack at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner last weekend

A month ago, President Donald Trump unabashedly celebrated the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller

Donald Trump has lashed out at a reporter over chilling declarations and allegations written in the alleged Washington Correspondent Dinner gunman’s manifesto

Forty-five years later, another presidential evening there dissolved into the familiar scenes of noise, panic and men with earpieces moving very fast

President Donald Trump publicly praised White House Correspondents' Association President Weijia Jiang for her composure and quick thinking during the April 25 shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, calling her response "outstanding" and "very professional" in the chaotic moments after gunfire erupted outside the ballroom

World leaders expressed shock after a shooter charged a glitzy media gala in Washington on Saturday night attended by U.S. President Donald Trump — and relief that there were no casualties

That is emblematic of the recent scramble on Capitol Hill to renew the key terrorism prevention program known as FISA Section 702

In interviews, GOP senators publicly disparaged their own party’s strategy even as they refrained from lobbing personal attacks at individual Republicans by name

In interviews, GOP senators publicly disparaged their own party’s strategy even as they refrained from lobbing personal attacks at individual Republicans by name

Republican lawmakers are reportedly considering healthcare changes to help fund the war in Iran and Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Some congressional Republicans are raising concerns about further escalation

Scalise defends Mike Johnson after House leaders deny Senate proposal to re-open DHS a vote in the lower chamber

Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is calling for Republicans to provide Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with enough funding to last a decade