Republican senators struggled to defend Donald Trump’s decision to commute and pardon hundreds of January 6 protesters including those who were charged and convicted of crimes against police officers,

Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming, who is seeking to oust Sen. Bill Cassidy in 2026, is calling the senator a "RINO," or "Republican in name only."

It’s not yet clear where lawmakers will be on the day of Trump’s inauguration after it was announced that the ceremony would be inside due to dangerously cold temperatures.

"McConnell spent his life creating this crisis...Only at the end does he find a conscience," political commentator Wajahat Ali wrote.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) hammered President Trump on Thursday for pardoning those charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, warning that the liberation of hundreds

Congressional Republicans are looking to press on in scrutinizing some of those who received pardons from former President Biden in the last hours of his presidency. “Implication is that they

AUSTIN, Texas — A push by Texas’ hard right to widen control in the state Capitol fell short Tuesday after House lawmakers rejected its choice for the powerful speakership amid a Republican feud accelerated by the historic impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton .

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., said that former President Biden’s decision to issue preemptive pardons to his family members at the end of his presidency “validates everything we found” in his investigation of the Biden family’s foreign business dealings, according to a report from The Hill.

Prominent GOP senators on Tuesday condemned President Trump’s sweeping clemency for violent Jan. 6 convicts who destroyed the Capitol and attacked police officers. “I do not support pardons given to people who engaged in violence on January 6,

Efforts to impeach Donald Trump for a third time are ramping up as he begins his second term as president. Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment via email. The renewed push for Donald Trump's impeachment underscores the deep political divisions in the country and the ongoing fallout from his campaign.

who voted to convict Trump in his 2021 impeachment, has already drawn a MAGA challenger. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who was censured by his state party in 2023, could also face a tough fight from the right. These vulnerable GOP senators will have to walk a ...

Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, was elected speaker of the Texas House on Tuesday, concluding a bitter and intense power struggle within the Republican Party that came down to an extraordinary floor vote to decide who would fill one of the most powerful positions in state government.