Eric Schmitt

A certain GOP senator does not want to deal with the Schmitt-storm he started

Eric Schmitt’s allegation rested on an apparent mix-up between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes

Boeing Lands Navy Contract Worth More Than $20 Billion

Republican senator explodes after Jack Smith conspiracy theory falls apart

Senator Klobuchar: 'Don't call someone a dirtbag when you don't have your own facts right'

Republican senator explodes after Jack Smith conspiracy theory falls apart

On Tuesday, as former special counsel Jack Smith hauled his stolid self up to a Senate committee room to listen to Republicans rant and rave about his investigations into the previous depredations of the current president, Schmitt drank most deeply from the dribble glass of stupid

In 2014, the author and activist Jonathan Rauch wrote a wonderfully provocative essay under the mischievous headline “The Case for Corruption.” Rauch, a Brookings scholar who has subsequently been an emphatic critic of President Donald Trump, wasn’t suggesting that congressmen start accepting envelopes of cash

Abigail Spanberger's administration quietly shut down a rulemaking process that would have required school sports to be divided by sex

On August 15, the Pentagon reaches the deadline set by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth last month for updating its policy and procedures to incorporate mandatory testosterone screening for military personnel; just one of various initiatives to "accelerate readiness, dominance and peak performance" of its troops

The work permits issued to hundreds of thousands of Haitians who’ve had Temporary Protected Status in the United States are set to expire soon, after a Supreme Court ruling last month upheld the Trump administration’s decision to end Haitians’ protections under the program

Nearly 100 US troops injured in two weeks since Iran war resumed

Evidence suggests the ship on which three Indian sailors died was not moving when it was struck in the Gulf of Oman, but it had been engaged in risky offshore transfers of oil

Alison is a senior news reporter covering US politics and legal news

The Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump's attempt to clarify "birthright citizenship," but a Republican senator is taking up the mantle of Congress to rework the 14th Amendment, while calling for the Trump administration to revoke citizenship of babies born to foreign diplomats

Former U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith's team reviewed text messages from ​44 Republican and Democratic members of Congress during his investigation

Groups that advocate for reporters roundly criticized the Justice Department’s move

Democrats are gaining ground in four key gubernatorial contests, with new ratings and polling data showing movement toward the party in Arizona, Ohio, Maine and New Mexico ahead of the 2026 midterms

Ahead of America’s historic 250th Independence Day on Saturday, July 4, Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited US Ambassador Mike Huckabee at the US Embassy in Jerusalem to deliver a message of congratulations to President Donald Trump and the American people

The Vermont independent and former presidential candidate made the remarks in a video posted to social media this week, ahead of July 4, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

Ken Abramowitz is a threat analyst, author of “The Multifront War," and is the President and founder of SaveTheWest.com

The Supreme Court term that ended Tuesday left almost everybody at least a little unhappy

President Donald Trump and his advisors are looking for ways to prevent "birth tourism" following a Supreme Court ruling that upholds birthright citizenship

After berating the Supreme Court for much of the year — while simultaneously inviting some of the justices over to the White House for dinner — President Donald Trump’s final assessment of the court’s momentous term this week felt something like a ceasefire

This comes after Trump had signed an executive order on the first day of his presidency decreeing those born to parents in the US illegally or on temporary visas could not automatically become Americans

The divide reflects irreconcilable views of political power: Trump’s ends-justify-the-means approach is colliding with the protect-the-norms posture of Republicans on the Hill and in statehouses

The chaos that followed Trump’s sudden U-turn on Jay Clayton’s nomination, just hours before a scheduled confirmation hearing, further loosened tongues in the Capitol hallways — even from lawmakers who tend to be reliable allies

Vance Touts Iran Deal as Win for U.S. No Matter What Happens Next

The chaos that followed Trump’s sudden U-turn on Jay Clayton’s nomination, just hours before a scheduled confirmation hearing, further loosened tongues in the Capitol hallways — even from lawmakers who tend to be reliable allies

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

GOP-Led House Passes $70 Billion for Immigration Enforcement

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has a chance today to convince Republicans he’s dropping plans for a controversial $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund.”

Every now and then, while talking to officials in the Oval Office, with friends over dinner, or on the patio at Mar a Lago, President Trump pauses and muses aloud about a subject quietly captivating the Republican Party

The Supreme Court on Monday immediately put into effect its ruling invalidating Louisiana’s congressional map, leaving conservative Justice Samuel Alito and liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on opposite sides and accusing each other of lacking restraint

A slew of GOP-controlled states are moving forward with redrawing, fulfilling predictions the Democratic-aligned civil rights group Fair Fight Action made last year when it identified 19 possible seats that Republicans could target without Section 2 of the VRA in place

From the minute King Charles and Queen Camilla stepped onto the White House South Lawn, US networks dumped their standard diet of political warfare and breaking news for something rare: pure pageantry

Court document is rife with Trumpian flourishes, including random capitalizations and other idiosyncratic and casual turns of phrase

In the hallways, GOP senators either walked away or shook their heads when asked if they had any concerns about the president’s particularly unhinged behavior in recent weeks

In the hallways, GOP senators either walked away or shook their heads when asked if they had any concerns about the president’s particularly unhinged behavior in recent weeks

Those included threatening to wipe out Iran’s entire civilisation, attacking Pope Leo as a radical leftist sympathiser who was “weak on crime” and posting an AI illustration that depicted him as Jesus Christ healing the sick — which he later deleted

An ICE detainer is a request from immigration authorities asking local law enforcement to hold someone suspected of being in the country unlawfully for up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released so the agency can take the individual into federal custody

In its announcement requesting Missouri authorities not grant pre-trial release to Archaga-Elvir, ICE described him as a 'monstrous illegal alien' that lured Young into a 'vicious ambush' on March 12

Congressional Democrats want President Donald Trump ousted through extraordinary measures, despite previously dismissing similar calls targeting former President Joe Biden

It protects eligible individuals from deportation while their home country is considered unsafe

Trump: Iran’s civilisation will die tonight

The dramatic rhetoric came with roughly 12 hours remaining before Trump's self-imposed 8 p.m. EDT deadline for Iran to reopen the vital waterway, through which roughly one-fifth of global oil supplies pass

Bondi and Noem are the only two cabinet members to lose their jobs so far in Trump’s second term despite male officials such as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr stumbling from controversy to controversy

Trump fires Attorney General Pam Bondi following Epstein files debacle