Democrats push new $3T coronavirus relief bill through House
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats powered a massive $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill through the House on Friday, an election-year measure designed to brace a U.S. economy in free fall and a health care...
View ArticleLong-suffering California GOP sees revival in rare House win
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Republicans have been waiting for a turning point and some think it’s finally arrived. The party of Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan has been fading in...
View ArticleTrump threatens funds for states easing voting in pandemic
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to hold up federal funds for two election battleground states that are trying to make it easier and safer to vote during the...
View ArticleTrump urges Senate Republicans to ‘be tough’ on Democrats
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump arrived on Capitol Hill on Tuesday for perhaps one of the larger social gatherings still happening in Washington amid the coronavirus — the weekly Senate...
View ArticleBiden wins Oregon Democratic presidential primary
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Republican voters in Oregon’s vast 2nd Congressional District on Tuesday elected a former state senator to be their candidate to replace Rep. Greg Walden, who didn’t run for a 12th...
View ArticleTrump threatens to move RNC without assurances from governor
President Donald Trump threatened Monday to pull the Republican National Convention out of North Carolina if the state’s Democratic governor doesn’t immediately sign off on allowing a full-capacity...
View ArticleParties target control of state legislatures, redistricting
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Drowned out by the coronavirus and national politics, Republican and Democratic operatives are quietly preparing for a battle of state legislative supremacy later this year...
View ArticleGOP govs offer states as alternative RNC convention host
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two GOP governors are offering up their states to host the Republican National Convention — a day after President Donald Trump threatened to pull the convention out of North Carolina...
View ArticleGOP senators offer rare rebuke of Trump on church visit
WASHINGTON (AP) — A handful of GOP senators spoke out Tuesday against President Donald Trump, criticizing his visit to a church after police removed peaceful demonstrators from a park near the White...
View ArticleGOP reckons with polarizing candidates amid civil unrest
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican Party is facing a reckoning over some of its most divisive candidates. So far the results are mixed, and that’s dicey for the GOP as a country shuddering from...
View ArticleLauding ‘force’ against protests, Sen. Cotton raises profile
WASHINGTON (AP) — Freshman Sen. Tom Cotton has risen to the ranks of potential 2024 Republican presidential contenders by making all the right enemies. By lining up behind President Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleTrump says GOP is pulling convention from North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday night that he is seeking a new state to host this summer’s Republican National Convention after North Carolina refused to guarantee the...
View ArticleRNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel announces Jacksonville, Florida as host city to...
(WGHP) – The Republican National Committee confirmed on Thursday night that Jacksonville, Florida, will be the host city for President Donald Trump’s acceptance of the re-nomination for president. A...
View ArticleScott’s challenge: Uniting Senate GOP behind police overhaul
WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP is looking for an answer on how to respond to national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd. And they are looking to Sen. Tim Scott to provide it. The question is...
View ArticleTrump says GOP is pulling convention from North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump said he is seeking a new state to host this summer’s Republican National Convention after North Carolina refused to guarantee the event could be held in...
View ArticleGOP congressman who officiated gay wedding loses primary
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — A freshman Virginia GOP congressman who angered social conservatives in his district when he officiated a gay wedding lost his party’s nomination. U.S. Rep. Denver Riggleman lost...
View ArticleSenate GOP to restrict police chokeholds in emerging bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Driven by a swift-moving national debate, Senate Republicans are on the brink of introducing an extensive package of policing changes with new restrictions on police chokeholds and...
View ArticleGOP candidates balance pros, cons of running with Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is hitting the road again. And while a campaign event with a president who draws TV cameras and raucous crowds can be gold for down-ballot candidates, these...
View ArticleTrump, Senate GOP seek police changes as Democrats urge more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Embracing a new priority, President Donald Trump is set to announce executive actions on police procedures and Senate Republicans are preparing a package of policing changes as the...
View ArticleHigh court decision spotlights GOP divide over LGBT rights
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats flooded Twitter and email inboxes this week with praise for the watershed Supreme Court decision shielding gay, lesbian and transgender people from job discrimination....
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