A U.S. appeals court on Thursday ruled against a federal law requiring young adults to be 21 to buy handguns, finding it violated the Second Amendment. The ruling, ...

The House GOP majority was already tiny. As a Florida Republican resigns to join Team Trump, the party's troubles just got a little worse. By Steve Benen After Donald Trump’s presidential ...

Wade, which granted constitutional abortion rights. With its repeal in 2022 and Trump’s potential return to power alongside a Republican-controlled Congress, activists are eager to build on their ...

Gretchen Whitmer ends her time in that office. Nesbitt, a Republican from Lawton, held the top Republican role in the state Senate as its minority leader during the recently concluded legislative ...

Consider what’s happening in Republican states. The top three states for the number of new solar panel installations include not only California but also Republican-led Florida and Texas.

They say that, too, resonates strongly with voters. “It carries so much more emotional weight,” said Republican state Rep. Ron Bryce, a doctor from southeastern Kansas. “We’re talking ...

House and Senate leaders left a meeting at the White House on Tuesday with varying levels of optimism about being able to fit their plans for a massive conservative policy overhaul into one bill ...

The lower chamber is controlled by Republicans by just three votes, 218-215. If more than one Republican defects and the Democrats remain unified, the GOP won't be able to pass its priorities.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., hugs Miriam Adelson before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in ...

WASHINGTON — A handful of Republican senators pushed back Tuesday against President Donald Trump’s decision to issue pardons to roughly 1,500 criminal defendants and commute the sentences of ...

Gender affirmation and the denial of rights for transgender people and gender-fluid people have been hallmarks of Donald Trump and his Republican allies. In fact, Trump made it clear during his ...

On the same possession where he benefitted from his late slide that caused two Texans to crash into each other, drawing a widely panned unnecessary roughness flag, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes ...