It’s the Monday morning after the second attempt on Donald Trump’s life and Scott Jennings is seated inside a climate-controlled CNN studio on the west side of Manhattan ready to stand as a vessel for ...

Rep. Thomas Massie is poised to vote “hell no” on a GOP-sponsored bill designed to punish the Biden administration for pausing approved weapon deliveries to Israel. The legislation, which is likely to ...

After weeks of speculation, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell voted Thursday to put Pete Hegseth on the brink of confirmation to become the nation’s next defense secretary. The procedural vote of 51-49 ...

President Donald Trump is centering his pitch to Black Americans for a second term on the expansion of opportunity zones, a program intended to fight poverty that his administration is touting as ...

Former President Barack Obama said reparations for Black Americans were a “non-starter” during his presidency. Obama, the country’s 44th and first Black president, said on Bruce Springsteen’s ...

Members of the House of Representatives who live in their Capitol Hill offices shouldn’t get too comfortable. The practice is going under the knife from the new Democratic leadership. Top Democrats ...

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North Carolina’s State Bureau of Investigation and its insurers have agreed to pay $12.475 million to two innocent men who spent a total of 31 years behind bars. The state agreed to pay $7.85 million ...

A widening scandal surrounding the Russian billionaire who bought Donald Trump’s Palm Beach mansion — a different one than Mar-a-Lago —for an eye-popping sum has brought the oligarch renewed scrutiny.

Andy Barr isn’t even a declared U.S. Senate candidate, but a conservative Washington group has already tossed a shot across the bow, committing to oppose the Lexington congressman if he attempts to ...

When governors win a second term, they’re frequently thrust into a predictable political rite of passage: Speculation that a presidential run is in the offing. As a white male and low-key moderate ...

Conservatives are conveying anger with northern Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie over his vote to oppose a resolution censuring California Rep. Adam Schiff, a favorite boogeyman of Republicans. Massie ...