Seth McLaughlin

Obama on Trump-inspired GOP: ‘We have got a problem’

Former President Barack Obama says he is shocked at the GOP's reluctance to stand up against former President Donald Trump's stolen election claims.

June 7, 2021

Joe Biden honors the fallen on Memorial Day, vows to fight for stronger democracy

President Biden used his Memorial Day address to call on the nation to remember and honor the legacy and sacrifice of fallen members of the armed services and their families.

May 31, 2021

Joe Biden marks Memorial Day with a wreath-laying at Arlington National Cemetery

President Biden participated in a wreath-laying ceremony Monday at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to honor members of the military who died serving their country.

May 31, 2021

Donald Trump pays tribute to ‘fallen heroes’ on Memorial Day

Former President Donald Trump said Monday that Memorial Day is a chance to remember "the fallen heroes who took their last breaths in defense of our Nation, our families, our citizens, and our sacred freedoms."

May 31, 2021

Biden on Memorial Day: ‘Military community is spine of country’

President Biden said Sunday Memorial Day provides the opportunity to reflect on the sacrifices members of the military and their families have made to protect the United States and defend its values around the world.

May 30, 2021

Hakeem Jeffries: Dems won’t give up on Jan. 6 panel

The battle over the Jan. 6 commission is far from over, according to Democrats who say they are regrouping and exploring the best path forward after Republicans torpedoed a proposed 9-11 style commission to probe the U.S. Capitol attack.

May 30, 2021

Pete Buttigieg: Joe Biden’s budget is bold and responsible

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg pushed back against fiscal concerns over President Biden's spending plans, saying the $6 trillion budget blueprint is a "bold" and "responsible budget."

May 30, 2021

Arizona election audit promises more intrigue than answers

The ongoing audit of the 2020 election in Arizona has the state's Republican leaders at each other's throats and their disputes over the process are raising doubts about the outcome of the high-tech recount.

May 29, 2021

Senate GOP blocks Jan. 6 commission

Senate Republicans on Friday blocked a proposal to create an independent 9-11 style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, dismissing the Democrat-led push as a purely political exercise.

May 28, 2021

Nearly a quarter of Republicans embrace QAnon theories: poll

The "QAnon Shaman" apparently is one of many. A Public Religion Research Institute and the Interfaith Youth Core survey released this week found that 15% of Americans are QAnon believers.

May 28, 2021

Donald Trump dings Reagan Library, former Speaker Paul Ryan

Former President Donald Trump blasted the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum a day after former House Speaker Paul D. Ryan appeared there and delivered a thinly veiled critique of the 45th president's grip on the party.

May 28, 2021

Joe Biden tests big government popularity with $8 trillion in spending

President Biden is testing the theory that spending big pays in politics, with a total of nearly $8 trillion in spending either proposed or doled out so far this year.

May 27, 2021

Joe Manchin: ‘No excuse’ for Republicans to oppose Jan. 6 panel

Sen. Joe Manchin slammed his Republican colleagues Thursday over their continued opposition to a proposed 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

May 27, 2021

GOP rolls dice that Donald Trump helps score wins in midterms

Republican leaders and the vast majority of the party's rank-and-file members are betting they are better off with former President Donald Trump than they are without him heading into the 2022 midterm elections.

May 27, 2021

Republicans with 2024 election hopes pounce on Biden’s response to Israel-Palestine conflict

President Biden's response to the flare-up of violence in the Middle East has given an opening to Republicans with 2024 White House ambitions to draw political battle lines with the Democratic administration and score points with the GOP base.

May 19, 2021

Donald Trump says N.Y. criminal probe continues ‘greatest political Witch Hunt’

Former President Donald Trump said the New York attorney general office's decision to work alongside the Manhattan district attorney in a criminal probe of his business dealings is nothing more than a "continuation of the greatest political Witch Hunt in the history of the United States."

May 19, 2021

Arizona election auditors say they recovered ‘deleted’ data

The company hired to audit the results of the Maricopa County elections in Arizona says it has recovered data that it previously thought was destroyed.

May 19, 2021

Donald Trump cheers Geoff Duncan calling it quits in Georgia

Former President Trump is celebrating the news that Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan announced he will not seek re-election. "He was the one who, along with Governor Brian Kemp, stopped the Georgia State Senate from doing the job they wanted to do on the 2020 Presidential Election Fraud," Mr. Trump said in a statement Tuesday. "Duncan's fight against Election Fraud made him unelectable."

May 18, 2021

Mike Pompeo: Biden’s weakness opened door to turmoil in Middle East

President Biden has signaled weakness to the key actors in the Middle East, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday, blaming the new administration for helping foment the worst clashes in years between Israel and its Palestinian population.

May 18, 2021

Maricopa County board calls for end of ‘grift disguised as an audit’

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors on Monday called on the GOP-led state Senate to pull the plug on the ongoing audit of the 2020 election results, saying the effort has made Arizona a "laughing stock" for the nation and "weakens our democratic republic."

May 17, 2021