During his 30 years in Congress, he resisted his party’s rightward tilt. He endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 and became a ...

Clarke Reed, the grand old man of the Mississippi Republican Party, should be remembered for far more than just being an ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Clarke Reed, a Mississippi businessman who developed the Republican Party in his home state and across the South starting in the 1960s, died Sunday at his home in Greenville, ...

NBC News reported: Democrat Derek Tran has defeated Republican incumbent Michelle Steel for a House seat representing California’s Orange County and Los Angeles, NBC News projects.

Trump's support for tariffs and skepticism toward global trade departs from previous Republican presidents spanning the past four decades. Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and his father ...

A Republican senator has introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education, which was one of President Donald Trump’s campaign promises. The bill aims to end the Department of Education ...

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NEWFIELDS, N.H. – After eight years in office, Republican Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire is in his final weeks steering New England's only swing state. Sununu announced last year that he ...

IT IS REALLY TIGHT. AND FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1980, A REPUBLICAN HAS FLIPPED A SEAT IN THE STATE SENATE IN A GENERAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. HERE IN CALIFORNIA, DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR JOSH ...

A Republican senator has blocked the promotion of a general who oversaw the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to a source familiar with the matter, as President-elect Donald Trump has ...

As a result, we know that the Republican majority will be between one and four seats. (If I had to guess, I’d say that the GOP will eventually end up with 221 seats, but don’t hold me to that.) ...