The Senate is finding itself in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to spare ...

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Trial-court judges continue to block the president’s agenda with injunctions that apply across the country. Some ...

Legislators have proposed a controversial new bill that would make it a crime to harass others while wearing a mask. It’s not the first time. In New York, mask bans have existed for nearly two ...

No one in the GOP has done more to push the U.S. Supreme Court to the far right than Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), who ...

Drawn to yes men and women - analysts believe Trump is choosing loyalty over competence to curate his team of 'outsiders' ...

The announced retirement of Senator Mitch McConnell ... said Donovan. McConnell’s willingness to block Obama’s agenda—as well as his Supreme Court nominee—and his efforts in pushing ...

Mitch McConnell ... the U.S. Senate, where McConnell wielded power with cold precision. His refusal even to consider Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 2016 was not just ...

We’re Going to Miss Mitch ... bench, McConnell ominously warned him, “You’ll regret this.” So when Chuck Schumer foolishly tried to filibuster Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court nomination ...

Republican Senator Mitch ... Supreme Court, guiding the Senate through tax cuts, presidential impeachment trials, and numerous intense political battles, AP reported. Also Read: Mnuchin, McConnell ...

Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) stunts on U.S. Supreme Court nominations (blocking an appointment in the final 11 months of President Obama’s second term, and rushing one through in the final four ...