Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Tuesday took the necessary procedural steps to place Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) bill blocking transgender athletes from women’s sports on the Senate calendar. The step sets up a vote on Tuberville’s bill in the

The Senate on Tuesday approved its organizing resolution for the 119th Congress, officially setting the composition of committees and greenlighting nomination hearings to take place in the coming weeks.  The upper chamber adopted the resolutions, one for the majority and another

A felony defendant in a case related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has been granted permission to travel to Washington, D.C., this month to attend President-elect Trump’s inauguration, the first known instance of such a request

Former Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton announced on Tuesday that she’s running for governor, becoming the first Democrat to enter the race to replace term-limited Gov. Mike DeWine (R). “I’m a doctor, not a politician,” she said in a

(The Hill) -- President Joe Biden said early Wednesday that he thinks he would have beaten President-elect Donald Trump if he stuck with his reelection bid in an interview with USA Today. “It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes,” the

Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to release only the volume of special counsel Jack Smith’s report dealing with Donald Trump’s plans to subvert the transfer of power after losing the 2020 election, holding back on sharing the Mar-a-Lago report while

(The Hill) -- President-elect Donald Trump has doubled down on his suggestion of a merged United States and Canada following Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to resign. Some have shrugged off Trump’s suggestion that Canada should “become the 51st state” as an

President-elect Trump said that Republicans are working to craft a “powerful” piece of legislation to advance his agenda. Republicans had already begun preparing to use a special procedure known as budget reconciliation to bypass Democratic opposition in the Senate to extend

Colleges and universities are preparing for new legal and political territory as President-elect Trump returns to office.  Concerns for international students, GOP attacks on higher education and increased protests on campus are just some of the worries on administrators' minds.  “I think

President-elect Trump faced the media at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Tuesday, the day after Congress had certified his victory in November’s election. The press conference came 13 days before Trump will be inaugurated, at which point he will become

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (KNWA/KFTA) — A prisoner who killed a man and a fellow inmate in 2004 and had his death sentence commuted by President Joe Biden refuses to sign his paperwork accepting the clemency action. Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis,

President-elect Trump on Tuesday refused to commit to not using the U.S. military to gain control of the Panama Canal, after vowing last month to take over operation of the key passageway. Trump was questioned during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago

(NewsNation) — The incoming Trump administration could overhaul NASA with several goals, including sending humans to the moon and Mars by 2028. According to Ars Technica, a committee within the Trump transition team has spent the last five weeks or so,

(NewsNation) — The body of former President Jimmy Carter is scheduled to arrive in Washington on Tuesday, where it will lie in state ahead of Thursday’s state funeral at Washington National Cathedral. Carter, who died at the age of 100 last

(NewsNation) — Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon ruled that special counsel Jack Smith's report on the federal classified document case against President-elect Donald Trump cannot be released pending more court proceedings. The move came after Trump's attorneys demanded Attorney General Merrick Garland