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Republicans could try again to repeal Obamacare if they win enough seats in U.S. elections next month, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday, calling a failed 2017 push to repeal the healthcare law a "disappointment."
By Brendan Pierson and Sarah N. Lynch
NEW YORK/ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) – A U.S. Treasury Department official has been criminally charged with leaking confidential documents relating to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and others to a reporter from digital media company BuzzFeed, Manhattan federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Eleven Senators are demanding that Donald Trump disclose all of his family business ties through the Trump Organization to Saudi Arabia.
A new Morning Consult/Politico poll disproves Trump's claim that he will not be to blame if Republicans get beaten in the midterms.
Leonard Lance is a Republican congressman seeking re-election in a Republican district. But he has little to say about the Republican president.
By Leah Millis and Tulay Karadeniz
ANKARA (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he does not want to walk away from Saudi Arabia despite concerns about a missing Saudi journalist, as pressure mounted on the kingdom to answer Turkish allegations he was killed in Istanbul.
Republicans can’t talk about the issues that really matter to voters, so they gin up false narratives to get out the vote. This midterm, they’ve come up with “liberal mobs” and “antifa” coming to get everyone. In reality, the “liberal mobs” are angry about rape and jailed babies; they want a dialogue, they aren’t even carrying weapons, unlike the Tea Party in 2010.
Trump is demanding a 5% budget cut from all of his cabinet secretaries, and claiming that Democrats are wasting money after his tax cuts for the rich massively backfire.
A new investigation into the Trump Organization revealed that the entire family business is a decades-long scam to bilk investors out of money when projects fail.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) tried to defend Trump's cover-up of the Jamal Khashoggi murder only to end up contradicting and tying himself into knots on CNN.
In a Tuesday interview, Michael Blake vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee said he thought there was “no way” that Republicans would be able to preserve their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin, a longtime Republican, warned her party on Tuesday that Donald Trump has “unleashed a pink resistance that will transform American politics forever.”
‘Blue wave’ or ‘left-wing mob’? Anti-Trump fervor fuels a new movement aimed squarely at winning elections. https://t.co/G1qqP6LwPB neither: the pink resistance https://t.co/JYKgRqhK3S
Jamal Khashoggi was tortured and dismembered over seven minutes while he was still alive, according to a Turkish source who heard an audio recording of the murder. The report from the source was reported by the Middle East Eye.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has written legislation that would prohibit the president and vice president and their family from profiting off of investments from foreign governments.
Bloomberg News is reporting this morning that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is ready to issue the key findings in his final report on the Russia probe. Due to political considerations, however, he will not release his findings until after the midterm elections in November.
In a suit filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, the PEN American Center (PEN America) alleges that “official acts” by President Donald Trump have “violated the First Amendment and his oath to uphold the Constitution.”
Texas Democratic U.S. Senate contender Beto O'Rourke, slipping in the polls despite a record fundraising haul, went on the attack in a raucous debate with Republican rival Ted Cruz on Tuesday and resurrected the senator's nickname of "Lyin Ted."
Republican Congresswoman Martha McSally accused her opponent in the hotly contested U.S. Senate race in Arizona, Democratic U.S. Representative Kyrsten Sinema, of "being OK with treason" as the two faced off in their only debate.
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his former attorney Michael Cohen was lying when he testified Trump had directed him to break the law, the Associated Press reported.
While Trump's response to the murder of a Washington Post journalist has been troubling, it shouldn't be all that surprising.