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There’s the short-term issue: Cleaver was addressing a vacancy on the House Oversight Committee. The ranking Democrat on the ...

Democrats have been ripped on social media in recent days over alleged hypocrisy when it comes to calling for due process ...

Anthony Tata, whose past Islamaphobic and conspiratorial statements doomed his nomination for a top Pentagon job in the first Trump administration, was grilled by senators in his bid to become the ...

Age limits on members of Congress could attract support from both Republicans and Democrats, Nathan L. Gonzales writes.

In a country bitterly divided on virtually everything, from the major to the mundane, there’s one issue that could unite ...

Maxine Waters and Ted Lieu. Newsom was floated as a presidential hopeful but quickly endorsed Harris after President Biden ended his re-election bid. “From the great state of Nancy Pelosi.