John Cornyn

John Cornyn of withholding support and recounted an alleged restaurant encounter that longtime Cornyn strategist Rob Jesmer says never happened

Combined with separate disputes involving governors Lisa Cook and Michael Barr, Trump's decision to pin the headquarters spending issues on former Chair Jerome Powell means the president could potentially seek the removal of as many as three of the Fed's seven board members

Senators have demanded a response within the next 48 hours detailing ’how this president is literally stealing their tax dollars to air campaign ads celebrating himself’

Tillis pointed to the president’s involvement in the contest and described Trump’s decision to back Paxton instead of Cornyn as an “unforced error” that has put the Senate seat at risk for the GOP

Point Blank examines the Trump–Xi state visit amid intense U.S.–China competition over Taiwan, trade, artificial intelligence, the Indo-Pacific and China’s strategic alignment with Russia and North Korea

The goal of keeping Democratic Senate seats and flipping four GOP seats once felt like a long shot

Trump faces flurry of shouted questions next to Xi after being forced to let media back into White House

Trump faces flurry of shouted questions next to Xi after being forced to let media back into White House

Wicker, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, has been one of the more vocal Republicans about his disdain for the meeting, which kicked off Wednesday afternoon when Trump met Xi at Joint Base Andrews — the first time a president has met with a foreign dignitary there since 2015

All three men wear suits and ties

Former President George W. Bush and Senator John Cornyn, two top Texas Republicans, are rallying conservative donors behind the party’s Senate candidates — except for the one running in their own state, Ken Paxton

French’s social media attack on South Asian American students at the University of Texas at Austin has generated bipartisan backlash

Four Republican senators — Jerry Moran, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley and Thom Tillis — joined all the Democrats in voting against it

NEW YORK -- US stocks ended lower on Monday, pressured by unexpected calls from AI executives for an industry-wide slowdown in AI development

For a brief period last year, portions of the Republican Party seemed to recognize that their party had racism and antisemitism problems in their midst that needed to be reckoned with

By Sunday, the scene had become a powder keg for Texas Republicans, after the G.O.P. nominee for a statewide office captioned a screenshot of the celebration with a racist message on social media

Global AI stocks slip on concerns over risks

New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity’s survival, and whether the companies developing the technology are doing enough to prevent such a scenario

Texas gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa (D) embraced the new spotlight on her state brought on by the unexpectedly close Senate race between Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton

Trump Aligned Group Pouring Money Into Texas for Ken Paxton

Texas Governor Greg Abbott's bid for a fourth term may be headed for a closer-than-expected race, with a new poll showing the Republican leading Democratic state Representative Gina Hinojosa by just 1 percentage point less than two months before Election Day

This spring’s Texas GOP Senate runoff was one of the costliest and ugliest Republican nominating contests in recent history

Texas hasn't sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in nearly four decades, but a growing number of Republicans now privately admit that streak might be in trouble

Existing loopholes allow foreign agencies access to US technology

A longtime Republican congressional staffer has crossed party lines to join Democratic state Representative James Talarico’s campaign for the U.S. Senate in Texas

Trump Administration Pauses Construction in Texas’ Big Bend National Park

Reproductive health advocates fear newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche will usher in a new wave of restrictions on abortion — even in states where it is legal

The contentious primary in Michigan makes Republicans giddy at the prospect of picking up disaffected Haley Stevens supporters not enthused about a progressive like Abdul El-Sayed

USA: Progressive Democrat beats establishment candidate in Michigan primary

The intelligence-sharing relationship between the United States and Ukraine has returned to its previous high level

The road to confirmation just got bumpier for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche

Todd Blanche confirms scrapping of $1.8bn ‘slush fund’ ahead of confirmation vote

Cornyn threatens to tank Todd Blanche's nomination

Former Defense Secretary: U.S. 'locked into an unwinnable war' with Iran CNN

Cornyn and Tillis meet with Blanche amid hold on AG nomination; details on where U.S.-Iran talks stand as war appears to expand to Egypt

Capitol visit by Zelenskyy boosts momentum for tough new penalties on Russia

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s future at the Justice Department was in question on Wednesday afternoon after a group of Republican senators announced that the White House had not agreed to their demands surrounding the president’s so-called “slush fund”

Hundreds of officials gathered in the Capitol Rotunda to honour late Republican Senator Lindsey Graham

With Democrats unified in opposition, Republicans cannot afford any defections

President DONALD TRUMP today tried yet another tactic to push Senate Republicans to pass the SAVE America Act: don’t take off for summer break

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

Trump Unveils New Tariffs Designed to Withstand Legal Scrutiny

Senators on both sides of the aisle are quietly hopeful about avoiding a third government shutdown this year

President Trump expressed growing frustration with Senate Republicans and Majority Leader John Thune over their failure to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act before the August recess

All 12 Republicans on the panel, Cornyn included, backed Lake's nomination for ambassador to Jamaica and Mastriano's for ambassador to Slovakia; all 10 Democrats opposed both

Thom Tillis of North Carolina and John Cornyn of Texas in a bid to salvage attorney general nominee Todd Blanche's confirmation as the two outgoing Republicans withhold support over concerns about a controversial Justice Department settlement tied to President Donald Trump, Politico reported Tuesday

Plus, Adam Edelman dives into the increasingly murky Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has doubled down on threats United States President Donald Trump made against states that defy his demands for election reform

Trump touts his negotiating approach as tensions between US and Iran intensify CNN

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On Thursday night, Donald Trump did it again, trashing another American tradition with his primetime address from the White House’s East Room about election integrity

Perhaps the most important point that President Donald Trump made in his White House address on Thursday night was that we need to be vigilant about foreign involvement and intrusion in our election process

That plea, which Mr. Trump implied was the reason behind the Thursday night speech, appeared to have landed with a whimper among Republicans on Capitol Hill and in campaigns around the country