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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former President Donald Trump waves as he boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. Alex Brandon AP Former President Donald Trump has blamed his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joseph W. Craft III got out of his white Chevy Tahoe with a Friends of Coal license plate and made his way to the tent, greeting people with hellos and handshakes. He moved through the tent with ...

With former Vice President Joe Biden declared the winner by The Associated Press, President Donald Trump joins a short list of incumbents who lost reelection to the nation’s top office. Only 10 U.S.

Gold-mining dredges, called dragons, like this one photographed in 2020 in Rio Quito in western Colombia lift the river bed and destroy river banks to collect material that is going to be ground, ...