All 10 Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday formally asked for a delay in the confirmation vote of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, which, taken together with similar calls by one of the committee Republicans, Arizona’s Jeff...[...]

Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, acknowledged he has serious differences with leading Democrats, but said, “It’s impossible to conceive that I could run as a Republican.”Mr. Bloomberg, 76, a billionaire media executive and former New [...]

President Trump’s counselor said that she had spoken with Mr. Trump and senators and that the woman who accused a Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault “will be heard.” “So, let me make very clear,” Kellyanne Conway, the counselor, said Monday on...[...]

"Oh boythe Dems and their usual nonsense games really have him on the ropes now," Trump Jr. writes on social mediaTrump Jr. posted a meme on Instagram Monday with the caption "Judge Kavanaugh sexual assault letter found by Dems..." The photo...[...]

President Donald Trump’s pick for a pivotal spot on the Supreme Court already put the Senate at the confluence of the nation’s contentious political and legal movements.   But a woman’s allegation of sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh — dating back...[...]

At many workplaces across the country, employees are required to submit to random drug screenings. And now, one Republican lawmaker wants members of Congress to be mandated to do the same.Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) introduced a resolution last week...[...]

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Monday that President Trump supports the idea of letting the Senate hear testimony from the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. require(["medianetNativeAdOnArticle"],...[...]

In a stormy week, President Donald Trump blustered and distorted reality, denying massive deaths from a hurricane that scientists believe to be one of the nation's deadliest and blowing out of proportion U.S. economic growth and his role in...[...]

Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court thrust into turmoil after the woman accusing him of high school-era sexual misconduct tells her story publicly for first timeChristine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University in...[...]

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is condemning Russian efforts to use its money and influence to build opposition to an upcoming vote in Macedonia that could pave the way for the country to join NATO _ a move Moscow opposes.Mattis told reporters...[...]

In the hours after a 51-year-old California professor came forward to publicly alleged that Judge Brett Kavanaugh tried to sexually assault her while they were in high school, the White House signaled no interest in slowing Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court [...]

In 1991 when Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas faced sexual harassment claims, the public mantra toward men in the Senate and elsewhere was, "They just don't get it." Now, in the #MeToo era, men get it and have lost their jobs for...[...]

Congress is preparing to do what it does best: punt. In a spending deal reached this past week, lawmakers agreed to postpone fights over funding President Trump's border wall and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) until after the...[...]

Other Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee issued a lengthy statement vouching for Kavanaugh’s integrity and questioning the timing of the allegation.In an interview with The Washington Post, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said the woman,...[...]

A Michigan Democrat returns home after years away in the CIA and Iraq to find new, more divisive politics.Load...[...]