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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

Ex-Rep. Lou Barletta announces gubernatorial bid in Pennsylvania

Former Rep. Lou Barletta announced Monday he is running to become the next governor of Pennsylvania, vowing to "take back" the Keystone State from politicians "hell-bent on changing who we are and how we live."

May 17, 2021

CDC: Mask policy driven by ‘evolving science,’ not Joe Biden

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flipped the script on masks based on plummeting cases and "evolving science" about the COVID-19 vaccines, its director said Sunday, attempting to quell suspicion that the administration whisked out the guidance to give President Biden a win in a rough week.

May 16, 2021

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attract donor attention

Ali needed Frazier. Bird needed Magic. And Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene needs Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Or perhaps it is the other way around.

May 16, 2021

Liz Cheney to GOP: ‘Soul of our democracy’ at stake

Rep. Liz Cheney, booted from House Republican leadership last week after months of withering criticism of former President Donald Trump and his claims of a stolen election, continued her assault unabated Sunday by warning fellow Republicans that the "soul of our democracy" is at stake.

May 16, 2021

Liz Cheney no-dissent Trump stand is Chinese communism

A CBS News poll released Sunday found that 80% of Republicans agreed with Ms. Cheney's ouster, and that 66% of Republicans said that loyalty to Mr. Trump is important.

May 16, 2021

Rochelle Walensky, CDC director, defends abrupt shift in mask guidance

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took to the Sunday talk-show circuit to defend the agency's abrupt decision to relax its mask guidance for people that have received a coronavirus vaccine.

May 16, 2021

Liz Cheney: Donald Trump is ‘danger to our system’

Rep. Liz Cheney is plowing ahead with her criticism of former President Donald Trump despite getting booted from House GOP leadership.

May 16, 2021

Matt Gaetz’s former associate pleads guilty to sex trafficking

The walls could be closing in on Rep. Matt Gaetz, the far-right firebrand from Florida.

May 14, 2021

Trump takes ‘Trump vaccine’ victory lap: ‘Great accomplishment’ for himself, his administration

Former President Trump took credit Thursday for fast-tracking the development and delivery of the coronavirus "Trump vaccine" that has saved millions of lives around the world and put the nation on a path toward a return to normalcy.

May 13, 2021

Carly Fiorina applauds Liz Cheney, troubled by GOP’s ‘slavish’ Trump devotion

Carly Fiorina, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate, said Thursday Rep. Liz Cheney's ouster from House Republican leadership is only going to bolster her message that the party must distance itself from former President Donald Trump and his stolen election lies.

May 13, 2021