Politics

The Biden administration is reviewing 5,600 files to determine whether more children were separated from their families at the US-Mexico border during the Trump era than previously known, a senior Department of Homeland Security official told reporters Wednesday. Under former President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, border officials separated at least 2,800 children from

Former House Speaker John Boehner said former President Donald Trump “incited that bloody insurrection” at the US Capitol and blamed his false election claims for the GOP losing control of Congress, according to excerpts from his forthcoming book obtained by The New York Times. Republicans have wobbled over whether to embrace the 45th President’s legacy

Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, says he’s planning to run for governor of the heavily Democratic state next year. “I plan to run,” Andrew Giuliani, who served as an aide to former President Donald Trump, told the Washington Examiner in an interview published Wednesday. Giuliani’s gubernatorial bid could set

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s recent warning to the corporate CEOs of America that they would face serious consequences for using “economic blackmail” to protest against voter suppression laws is neither a gaffe nor a misstatement. Rather, it reflects the state of a Republican Party that is settling into its post-Donald Trump identity. McConnell’s “advice”

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed Rep. Mo Brooks’ campaign for US Senate in Alabama, supporting the controversial GOP congressman who stood by him during two impeachments and led the House effort to object to the 2020 election results. “Few Republicans have as much COURAGE and FIGHT as Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks,” Trump said

Rep. Matt Gaetz sought a preemptive pardon for himself near the end of President Donald Trump’s term and made his request known to someone outside the White House Counsel’s office, according to two people familiar with the matter, but Gaetz’s request was never seriously considered by the White House because they decided preemptive pardons were

Ten members of Congress who were in the House gallery as rioters breached the Capitol on January 6 are adding their names to the lawsuit first filed in February against former President Donald Trump and his former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. The lawsuit, first brought by House Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson and the NAACP, accuses

Republicans have blasted Major League Baseball for moving its All-Star Game from Georgia to Colorado because of Georgia’s controversial new elections law. Some of these Republicans are trying to convince Americans that baseball officials are not only wrong but hypocritical. On television and on social media, they have claimed or strongly suggested that the new

When the coronavirus pandemic forced states to lock down last year, they suspended a long-standing requirement that the unemployed have to be looking for work in order to receive jobless benefits. Now, as the economy and hiring pick up, a growing number of states are resuming the mandate. North Carolina, South Carolina, Nevada and Idaho

Donald Trump has left the White House, but the Republican Party just can’t quit his stunt politics. As President Joe Biden sells a popular Covid-19 rescue plan, highlights a quickening national vaccine effort, positions himself to benefit from an economic growth spurt after the pandemic and tackles economic inequity in American society, the GOP seems