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March 20, 2026 4:05 PM ET The Senate failed to end the partial government shutdown on Friday as Democrats — for the second time in less than a year — continue to withhold their votes to reopen the government over a policy dispute. The upper chamber, plagued by attendance issues, fell short of the 60-vote

March 20, 2026 3:43 PM ET President Donald Trump reendorsed Republican Colorado Rep. Jeff Hurd on Friday, less than a month after withdrawing his endorsement over Hurd’s vote against the president’s tariffs. Trump wrote in a Friday post to Truth Social that Hurd’s primary opponent, former Colorado GOP vice chair and Navy veteran Hope Scheppelman

March 19, 2026 10:12 AM ET Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman helped fast-track the nomination of Republican Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin as the next Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday morning. The Oklahoman’s nomination passed the Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee vote 8 to 7, with Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul voting down

March 19, 2026 7:01 AM ET In remarks on the Capitol steps Wednesday, Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback challenged President Donald Trump to make a clear case to the American people for U.S. involvement in a war with Iran. James Fishback, who is running for the Republican nomination in the Florida governor’s race, argued that

March 09, 2026 5:23 PM ET Democrats are taking advantage of a rift in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) base over the Trump administration’s support of a contentious pesticide. President Donald Trump’s executive order on glyphosate — a chemical used in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup — and the directive’s subsequent defense by Health and Human

Mary Rooke Commentary and Analysis Writer March 09, 2026 5:19 PM ET President Donald Trump risks facing the same pitfalls that plagued former President Joe Biden’s administration and cost Democrats dearly in the 2022 midterms. The most important issue leading into the 2026 midterms is (and always was) the economy. Presidents can get away with

March 09, 2026 4:34 PM ET Olympian Eileen Gu received a hero’s welcome in her hometown of San Francisco on Saturday. The 22-year-old served as grand marshal of the city’s Chinese New Year Festival and Parade.  Gu, a champion freestyle skier, has competed for China since 2019, and she took home three Olympic medals for

March 07, 2026 12:52 PM ET Bill Maher made Democratic California Sen. Adam Schiff expose the Democratic Party’s apparent hypocrisy Friday regarding President Trump’s military actions in Iran. At one point, Maher wanted to get Schiff‘s opinion on a statement made by the administration, saying, “‘The president has the constitutional authority to direct the use

March 07, 2026 11:03 AM ET Former President Joe Biden turned heads Friday when he declared his own intellectual superiority to a crowd gathered to honor the late Rev. Jesse Jackson. Biden, 83, made the remark during a eulogy at Chicago’s House of Hope, where he shared a lengthy personal story about growing up with

March 07, 2026 10:10 AM ET One of the Republicans targeted by Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s gerrymander announced Friday night he will seek reelection as an independent as a last-ditch attempt to save his longshot candidacy. Republican California Rep. Kevin Kiley said in a video posted to X that to “protect our democracy” from