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Fifteen Republican-led states and a national home builders group on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging new minimum energy ...

South Carolina Republican Congressman Joe Wilson is appealing to the incoming Trump administration to 'dismantle Georgian ...

Republicans are demanding that the Senate confirm President-elect Donald Trump’s national security picks “as soon as possible ...

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu suggested setting up a commission, guidelines and metrics to deal with the issue.

Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot Friday, pushing past GOP hard-right holdouts and buoyed with a nod of support from President-elect Donald Trump.

Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears of Virginia could make history next year as the nation's first Black woman to win election ...

Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign did not place him at the ideological center of the Republican Party, but the center quickly moved to him. How did it happen? This episode: political ...

Trump declared last month that “it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders — male and female.” ...

Brian McCormack, a longtime energy consultant, and Andrew Peek, a seasoned Middle East adviser, will take senior roles on the ...

For years, we’ve exposed the federal government’s role — especially the Intelligence Community — in concealing the origins of ...

There’s an inherent risk for Republicans who dare to oppose Donald Trump. The president-elect has vowed “retribution” against ...