The Senate could scramble an already difficult negotiation over President Donald Trump’s agenda, with Republicans promising further changes to his “big beautiful bill” once it clears the House. The legislation, which sweeps together Trump’s tax, border, and defense priorities, has torn apart the Republican conference ahead of a House vote planned for next week. Republicans […]

When then-President Joe Biden invited comparisons to Franklin D. Roosevelt during a meeting with historians, the possibility he might end up in a wheelchair while in office was surely not what he had in mind. But FDR went down in history as a Democratic icon who changed the presidency. He was also successful in a […]

Several state laws concerning whether noncitizens can vote are being tested in court, as Republicans attempt to limit voting rights to citizens while Democrats seek to expand them to noncitizens. Some GOP-led states, such as Louisiana and Wyoming, have passed their own versions of a U.S. House bill, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which requires […]

President Donald Trump is showcasing his cordial relationship with counterparts in the Middle East during the first major foreign trip of his second administration, but critics contend he is also capitulating to them, some of whom have weak human rights records and others who have direct ties to terrorism. Trump has always adopted an untraditional […]