Analysis: GOP senators struggle to escape no-win border vote
It’s increasingly clear that Republican senators are deeply uncomfortable with President Trump’s use of executive power to build a border wall and desperate to devise a way around a looming vote that could terminate it.
11 GOP senators to watch in the fight over Trump’s emergency declaration
No president wants a rebuke from his own party, and more than four have voiced significant discomfort with Trump's move.
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Calls for Virginia governor’s resignation grow
Two days after a racist yearbook photo emerged, Ralph Northam, Virginia’s Democratic governor, refuses to resign even as members of his own party demand he step down. In his press conference on Saturday, Northam denied being in the photo. Judith…
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Day 30 of shutdown: If compromise seems hopeless, what next?
The hardest part about ending the government shutdown, now in it’s 30th day, is that both parties have long standing ideals about immigration that align with the people they represent, says NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Jeff Greenfield. So it might…
The Democrats picked up the 23 seats they would need to take from the GOP, but lost in many of the key Senate races.
As authorities intercepted more than a dozen pipe bombs addressed to President Donald Trump’s most ardent critics, political scientists and ordinary Americans observed, again, that rabid partisanship had devolved to the point of acts of violent extremism.
Five of New Jersey’s 12 House seats are held by Republicans. This election, two of those seats -- the 7th and the 11th congressional districts -- are key targets by Democrats who hope to flip the House in their favor.
Democrats are forecast to make gains in the House when voters go to the polls Nov. 6, while Republicans may fare better in Senate races, where they hold the advantage. But with more than 200 women running for the House…
Whether or not Republicans ultimately confirm Kavanaugh, some on the front lines of the GOP's midterm battlefield fear the party may have already lost.
