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‘I never questioned, ‘Why me?”: Erika Kirk says ‘God is good’ months after husband’s assassination

Charlie Kirk's widow says she has a simple explanation for people who still can't understand how she's able to forgive the man accused of killing her husband.

December 28, 2025

Nancy Pelosi predicts Democrats will win the House and Hakeem Jeffries will become speaker

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is convinced that Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries will be gaveling the U.S. House to order after next year's midterm elections.

December 28, 2025

They lost. Now they’re running again — and betting voters will forget

Voters are feeling a sense of deja vu in Missouri's 1st Congressional District, where Cori Bush is mounting a comeback to reclaim the House seat she lost less than two years ago in the Democratic primary.

December 26, 2025

Trump pollsters say GOP must break through ‘left-wing’ media to win in 2026

President Trump's pollsters say the Republican Party's biggest hurdle heading into 2026 isn't policy or enthusiasm -- it's getting its message past what they call a "left-wing" news media.

December 24, 2025

Rep. Hageman launches Senate bid in Wyoming for seat of retiring Sen. Lummis

Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman is running to replace retiring Sen. Cynthia Lummis in Wyoming.

December 23, 2025

‘Will only get better’: Economic surge a holiday gift for Trump, GOP

President Trump and the Republican-led Congress got a boost Tuesday from three straight months of solid economic growth, handing them a timely talking point as they head into a midterm election cycle where the economy is shaping up as voters' top concern.

December 23, 2025

Bears leaving Chicago? Team threatens Indiana move as Pritzker rejects stadium deal

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's 2028 presidential ambitions are colliding with a very local headache: the Chicago Bears' stadium saga.

December 18, 2025

Lawmakers revive bipartisan push to repeal military force consent

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is renewing the push to repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, the law that presidents have relied on to greenlight armed action without congressional approval.

December 16, 2025

Republicans see relief at the pump as a political opening

Republicans are pointing to falling gas prices as proof they can ease voters' pocketbook pain heading into next year's midterm elections.

December 15, 2025

‘Not a priority’: GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy criticizes FDA’s delay on mifepristone study

Sen. Bill Cassidy said Sunday the Trump administration isn't treating abortion drug safety as a priority.

December 14, 2025

GOP Sen. Rand Paul warns the Trump-led redistricting battle could fuel ‘more violence’

Sen. Rand Paul is sounding the alarm over President Trump's nationwide redistricting push -- and the Democrats' counterattacks.

December 14, 2025

Sen. Raphael Warnock: A nation that tolerates mass shootings is ‘in need of moral repair’

Sen. Raphael Warnock said that Saturday's deadly shooting at Brown University is yet another reminder that America's leaders need to do more to stop gun violence.

December 14, 2025

Sen. Jim Banks predicts Trump’s redistricting foes face tough primary cycle in Indiana

Sen. Jim Banks warned Sunday that Indiana Republicans who thwarted President Trump's push for a new redistricting map will pay for it in the spring GOP primary.

December 14, 2025

Indiana Republicans defy Trump, block redistricting push

President Trump's redistricting push slammed into a stone wall Thursday in Indiana, where Republicans in the state Senate refused to break tradition and redraw congressional maps designed to protect the GOP's slim House majority in next year's midterms.

December 11, 2025

Trump world turns up the heat on Indiana GOP senators ahead of redistricting vote

Trump and his allies are mounting a final full-court press on Republican holdouts in the Indiana state Senate as the fight over new congressional maps hangs in the balance.

December 11, 2025

All eyes on Indiana as ‘huge’ redistricting vote tests Trump’s influence

When President Trump wants something from Republicans, he usually gets them to fall in line. But in Indiana, his grip is being tested.

December 10, 2025

Trump’s economic reset collides with ballot box results as Democrats celebrate more wins

President Trump and Republicans woke up Wednesday nursing their wounds after another crushing night at the ballot box.

December 10, 2025

Gov. Shapiro tries to seize spotlight as Trump visits Pennsylvania

Gov. Josh Shapiro started Tuesday the way he's spent much of December -- drawing sharp contrasts with President Trump, this time just hours before the Republican's high-profile visit to Pennsylvania.

December 9, 2025

Trump dubs Marjorie Taylor Greene a ‘Rotten Apple,’ as GOP feud boils over

President Trump says Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is less a Georgia peach and more of a "rotten apple."

December 8, 2025

Omar doubts Minnesota fraud linked to terrorism, warns of harms of Trump calling Somalians ‘garbage’

Rep. Ilhan Omar is not buying the idea -- embraced by some on the right -- that Minnesota's massive fraud case had ties to terrorism.

December 7, 2025