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Dems on track to take House control, but GOP retains Senate

WASHINGTON – Democrats were on track to gain House control Tuesday night but Republicans held their Senate majority as voters rendered a mixed verdict in the first nationwide election of Don...

DATE: Nov 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Evangelical leaders downplay potential Roe v. Wade reversal

NEW YORK – For evangelical Christian leaders like Jerry Falwell Jr., this is their political holy grail. Like many religious conservatives in a position to know, the Liberty Unive...

DATE: Jul 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Roy Moore stands with homophobic supporters

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A smiling Roy Moore stood shoulder to shoulder with his fiercest religious allies. Flanked by a huge sign for Moore’s Senate campaign, one supporter railed agai...

DATE: Nov 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bannon appeals to Jews to join war on GOP establishment

NEW YORK – President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist on Sunday called on American Jews to join his war on the Republican establishment. Steve Bannon appealed to the Zionist...

DATE: Nov 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Sexual misconduct accusations transform Alabama Senate race

WASHINGTON – Republicans weren’t supposed to have to worry about Alabama. Yet in the span of a tumultuous afternoon, a low-profile special election became a Republican nightmare t...

DATE: Nov 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP leaders bolt from Senate candidate Moore after sex claim

WASHINGTON – A month before Alabama’s special election, Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore abruptly faced lurid allegations Thursday of sexual misconduct with minors decades ago – and an ...

DATE: Nov 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ryan jabs Trump in comedy routine for New York elite

NEW YORK – House Speaker Paul Ryan poked fun at himself, the Senate’s top Democrat and even the Catholic church on Thursday night. But the top target of the speaker’s ribbing, as he faced hu...

DATE: Oct 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Koch chief says health care bill insufficiently conservative

COLORADO SPRING, Colo. – Chief lieutenants in the Koch brothers’ political network lashed out at the Senate Republican health care bill on Saturday as not conservative enough, becoming a pow...

DATE: Jun 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Inauguration in sight, Trump continues Twitter assault

NEW YORK – His inauguration days away, President-elect Donald Trump is continuing to lash out at critics in the intelligence community and Democrats in Congress who are vowing to skip his sw...

DATE: Jan 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump names hard-line trade official

President-elect working on policy agenda

DATE: Jan 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Businesses opposing deportation plans

Group says Trump proposal would damage U.S. economy

DATE: Dec 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Critics worry after Trump security chief fuels conspiracies

WASHINGTON – On issues of national security and intelligence, no one is likely to have more influence in Donald Trump’s White House than retired Gen. Michael T. Flynn. Yet Flynn, ...

DATE: Dec 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World