Republicans are praising President Donald Trump‘s move to send $90 Medicare checks to seniors nationwide as a politically savvy effort to reach one of the most reliable voting blocs ahead of the midterm elections, even as they acknowledge the payments may not be enough to overcome a difficult environment for the GOP. The president recently […]

DOSWELL, Virginia — Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) has spent nearly 20 years in Congress, winning reelection after reelection in a district Democrats haven’t held since the 1970s. But as the nine-term Republican worked the crowds at the State Fair of Virginia, shaking hands and talking with voters less than a month before Election Day, the […]

STAFFORD COUNTY, Kansas — A zebra skin hangs over a beam and the spiral-horned head of a kudu, an African antelope, looks down from the wall, amid a gaggle of stuffed geese and ducks. “I shot that zebra at 48 yards,” says Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), reminiscing about a bow hunting trip to Namibia as […]

A once-niche fight over automated license plate readers and surveillance cameras powered by artificial intelligence has emerged as a flash point in the debate over developing technology, garnering the attention of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Privacy concerns surrounding automated license plate readers have long attracted attention from conservative GOP lawmakers, who have […]