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The fight over the North Carolina Supreme Court race is just a preliminary test run, foreshadowing a far bigger “elephant” in ...

Or could it be a brand-new version of the 47th chief executive? GOP members walked triumphantly about the Capitol on Monday as Trump returned to the presidency. White House aides were all smiles ...

Congressional Republican leaders met with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, and the president gave some public remarks after the White House summit. Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South ...

GOP Senate Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said: "Party unity is the consensus on the reconciliation strategy." The disagreement leaves the future murky for Trump's campaign promises, even as he moves ...

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina said he was surprised by the scope of President Trump's pardon of Jan. 6 rioters. Lisa Desjardins reports on that reaction and a Republican strategy ...

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 ...

Garcia, 44, a Miami Proud Boy who was a member of the Miami-Dade GOP’s Executive Committee, was one of the first people in Florida to be arrested for crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021 ...

That may mean we need to look at what that authority really entails,” Tillis said. GOP Sen. Thom Tillis: “I’ve got concerns with any pardons for people who did any harm to police officers.

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

Ramaswamy, 39, a biotech entrepreneur who ran against Donald Trump in the Republican Primary before dropping out and endorsing him, has reportedly set his sights on running for governor of Ohio in ...

When the idea of pardons for Jan. 6 defendants first circulated, the pushback from Republican senators was pretty swift. And even the few who entertained the idea drew a line at pardoning the ...