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The U.S. government closed the 2018 fiscal year $779 billion in the red, its highest deficit in six years, as Republican-led tax cuts pinched revenues and expenses rose on a growing national debt, according to data released on Monday by the Treasury Department.
In a close contest, GOP suppression efforts in North Dakota could choke off enough Native American voters to steal them a pivotal U.S. Senate seat.
Not only is the arena Trump picked not the biggest in the state, as he promised, but it's not even the largest in the neighborhood.
Thirty-six states are holding gubernatorial elections in 2018, and the results of these contests could have far-reaching consequences.
At a rally on Wednesday, the president whined that he can no longer just spew the same sexist garbage that he might have in the past.
Female opposition to the Republican push to confirm Kavanaugh shot up by double digits since last month, from 42 percent to 55 percent.
It's easy to be proven innocent when you conduct an investigation that ignores all evidence that could prove any wrongdoing.
Ahead of Saturday's confirmation vote, Brett Kavanaugh accuser Deborah Ramirez shredded U.S. Senators for turning a blind on a sexual assault.
Going forward, the American people would be better served by ignoring this fraud – at least until she's thrown out in 2020.
Sen. Coons seems to be making yet another appeal to the same part of Flake that convinced him to have a change of heart last week.
It is up to the remaining undecided GOP women in the Senate to step up and show the same political courage that Heitkamp showed on Thursday.
The letter demonstrates just how unpopular Kavanaugh's nomination is to people who care most about the court's integrity.
Despite the fact that Brett Kavanaugh's nomination should be dead on the Senate floor, Republicans continue to push ahead.
Whenever it looks like Donald Trump and the Republican Party can't possibly go any lower, they grab shovels and start digging.
The flurry of new reporting on Monday isn't only consistent with those claims, but it proves he lied repeatedly under oath.
When the nation was given a chance to hear from the judge on Thursday, he did nothing to shake the recent characterizations of him. He only confirmed them.
Bob Corker's decision to vote in favor of this Brett Kavanaugh will forever taint his legacy as he prepares to leave office.
Kavanaugh tried to clean up his dismissal of her testimony by promising to watch it at a later time. Like much of what he said, that's hard to believe.
No matter what happens going forward, the Republican Party has already damaged the reputation of the nation's highest court.
The new allegations – which took place far more recently than the first three – are bad enough. Worse is that Republicans appear to be blowing them off.