On a sweltering Thursday morning, a group of anti-abortion leaders huddled close to the House side of the Capitol building. They had gathered outside to rally around defunding Planned Parenthood for a second time, as the organization had regained access to Medicaid reimbursements last week. Inside the Capitol at the same moment, the House Budget […]

The Senate campaign landscape got a morbid shakeup with the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). First elected to the Senate in 2002 after eight years as a House member, Graham died July 11 after a “brief and sudden illness,” per his Senate office. A longtime foreign policy hawk and ally of the late Arizona […]

A Tennessee state representative hopeful accused of deceiving voters about his Marine service has been called out for a second time after he posted military records that experts and opponents say are misleading. Brian Stewart is battling in the Republican primary for District 45, which covers Sumner County, just north of Nashville. Running in Secretary […]

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) pushed back on President Donald Trump‘s Thursday night speech on election interference by questioning CIA Director John Ratcliffe‘s role overseeing election intelligence as Trump’s first-term director of national intelligence. Trump made a highly anticipated address to the nation on Thursday night, during which he claimed that the Beltway “deep state” suppressed attempts […]