Tester confronts Mayorkas over border: 'You need to step up'
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who is a key vote on the question of whether the Senate will hold a full impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, confronted Mayorkas about the...
View ArticleJohnson tries to avoid ouster by own party as speaker
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is on shaky ground in Congress, with a slim GOP majority and a looming threat to oust him from the Speaker's chair. "We have the smallest...
View ArticleHouse Speaker Mike Johnson negotiating with White House to advance Ukraine aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is negotiating with the White House as he prepares for the treacherous task of advancing wartime funding for Ukraine and Israel through the House, a top...
View ArticleJohnson shifts from FISA critic to champion as Speaker
The battle over the nation’s warrantless surveillance powers is highlighting the evolution of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), a onetime critic of the foreign spy program who’s now fighting to usher its...
View ArticleHouse passes reauthorization of key US surveillance program after days of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Friday to reauthorize and reform a key U.S. government surveillance tool following a dramatic showdown on the floor over whether the FBI should be restricted from...
View ArticleHouse approves contentious FISA bill in bipartisan vote
The House in a bipartisan vote reauthorized the nation’s warrantless surveillance powers Friday, approving the program for another two years even as lawmakers narrowly declined to attach an amendment...
View ArticleArizona just revived an 1864 law criminalizing abortion. Here's what's...
Developments this week in Arizona underscored something that was already apparent about the 2024 elections in the United States: Abortion is going to loom large as an issue in state and federal...
View ArticleSenate Republicans furious over Trump trying to derail FISA bill
Senate Republicans vented their frustration after former President Trump helped derail a compromise House bill to extend Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authority, sending lawmakers...
View ArticleJohnson showcases ties to Trump amid Greene threat
Johnson and Trump are expected to speak at approximately 4:30 p.m. ET. Nexstar plans to carry their remarks live within this story. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is scheduled to appear alongside former...
View ArticleTrump says federal abortion ban is not needed 'because we broke Roe v. Wade'
Former President Trump on Friday said there was no need for a federal law limiting abortion because "we broke Roe v. Wade," and said states were working "brilliantly" as many GOP-led legislatures...
View ArticleHow a Black conservative activist arranged Donald Trump's stop at an Atlanta...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The scenes of Donald Trump being warmly greeted on Wednesday by a Black audience at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Atlanta electrified conservative political media at a moment when...
View ArticleTrump backs Johnson amid Greene ouster threat: ‘He’s doing a very good job’
Former President Trump threw his support behind Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Friday as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — one of Trump’s closest allies on Capitol Hill — threatens to force a...
View ArticleTrump gives support to embattled Speaker Mike Johnson at pivotal Mar-a-Lago meet
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump offered a political lifeline Friday to House Speaker Mike Johnson, saying the beleaguered GOP leader is doing a “very good job,” and tamping down the far-right...
View ArticleStudent debt relief could be lifeline to swing states, young voters for Biden
President Biden is pouring a tremendous amount of political capital into student loan relief ahead of the November election, and experts say the impact in key states could be crucial. “The swing...
View ArticleWill Biden be on the ballot in Ohio and Alabama? That's up to Republicans
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is wrangling with Republican-dominated state governments in Ohio and Alabama to assure he is listed on their fall ballots, as...
View ArticleSpeaker Johnson’s perilous moment on Ukraine has finally arrived
After months of delay, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is poised to step formally into the perilous debate over Ukraine aid — an explosive topic that carries high stakes for both the future of Kyiv’s...
View ArticleProgressive candidates are increasingly sharing their own abortion stories...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For decades, only three people knew Gloria Johnson had had an abortion. But a year of watching women and doctors agonize under Tennessee's strict abortion ban kicked up a fire...
View ArticleTrump’s rally on Biden's home turf in Pennsylvania will be the last one...
SCHNECKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump's rally set for Saturday night in northeast Pennsylvania, an area President Joe Biden considers home turf, will be the Republican's last one before his criminal...
View ArticleTrump boosting efforts to wrest Pennsylvania back to GOP victory
Editor's note: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that Trump won Lackawanna County in 2016. Former President Trump is turbocharging his efforts to win back Pennsylvania with visits...
View ArticleMcCormick gets Trump's endorsement in Pennsylvania's Senate race despite...
Former President Donald Trump endorsed U.S. Senate candidate David McCormick of Pennsylvania on Saturday, urging his supporters in the state to “go out and vote for him” in one of the year’s most...
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