If you missed the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973, fear not: A massive wave of nostalgia for the scandal that brought down a Republican president…
Senate Republicans deny buying votes for tax bill
Top Republicans batted aside complaints that they were trying to buy support for their tax cut bill in the final hours before a vote Tuesday…
Panel picks law firm to investigate former Senate president
BOSTON (AP) – The Senate Ethics Committee has agreed to hire the law firm of Hogan Lovells to serve as a special investigator into whether…
The Latest: US agency dismayed by immigrant abortion ruling
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on a federal judge ordering the Trump administration to allow two immigrant teenagers in U.S. custody to obtain abortions (all…
Judge rules in favor of 2 immigrant teens who want abortions
WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal judge on Monday ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to allow two pregnant immigrant teenagers in U.S. custody to obtain abortions.…
Drilling in section of ANWR included in final GOP tax-reform package
With Republicans set to achieve a decades-long policy goal of opening a section of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, environmentalists over the…
Inside the Beltway: War on Trump: Advertisers plunge into politics
The influential advertising-trade association 4A’s released earlier this year a survey that found that 58 percent of Americans frown when established commercial brands “get political”…
Nancy Pelosi’s super PAC keeps donations from Backpage owners
After California’s then-Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced felony pimping charges last year against the two owners of Backpage.com — a classified-ad website that is…
Marco Rubio, Bob Corker swing tax reform confidence in Senate
Republican leaders won over one balky senator by boosting his favorite tax break and swung another from “no” to “yes” after a phone call with…
Gov. says senator should resign over misconduct allegations
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Pennsylvania’s governor said Sunday a state senator should resign over published allegations he behaved inappropriately toward women. Gov. Tom Wolf’s call for…