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Emerging from two years of relative silence, former House Speaker Paul Ryan has joined the fight against Donald Trump, urging fellow conservatives to reject the former president’s divisive politics and those Republican leaders who emulate him. Ryan made his remarks during a Thursday evening address at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. He was […]

Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development (HUD), has tested positive for the coronavirus, a HUD spokesperson said Monday, making him the second senior official who attended an election night event at the White House to contract the virus. “Secretary Carson is in good spirits and feels fortunate to have access to effective […]

As Russia intensified its aggression toward neighboring Ukraine earlier this week, Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio blasted President Vladimir Putin’s provocations as a “clear violation of international law.” The co-chair of the Senate’s Ukraine Caucus urged the Biden administration to work with allies to “ensure a coordinated response to this unwarranted continued incursion on […]

Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Donald Trump, has tested positive for coronavirus, he said Tuesday. “Over the last 5 days I have been working remotely and self-isolating, testing negative every day through yesterday. Today, I tested positive for COVID-19 and am in quarantine,” Miller said in a statement. He is the latest official […]

President Trump for the first time acknowledged a new administration would take over on January 20 in a video released Thursday evening. The video comes after lawmakers called for invoking the 25th amendment and removing him from office, following the assault Wednesday by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol that left four civilians dead. “A […]

In an interview that’s made headlines this week, Lesley Stahl presses President Donald Trump on once-again rising coronavirus cases and what his priorities would be if reelected. Stahl also speaks with Trump’s running mate, Vice President Mike Pence. In what has become an election-year tradition, “60 Minutes” had conversations with the major party candidates for […]

NASA has named the 18 astronauts — half of them women — who will train for its Artemis moon-landing program. The first woman and the next man on the moon will come from this elite group. Vice President Mike Pence introduced the astronauts Wednesday at the close of his final meeting as chairman of the […]

House Democrats prosecuting Donald Trump’s impeachment said Thursday the Capitol invaders believed they were acting on “the president’s orders” to stop Joe Biden’s election, arguing it was the culmination of the defeated president’s pattern of spreading false and violent rhetoric that will continue to vex American politics if left unchecked. The prosecutors described in stark, […]

President-elect Joe Biden said Friday that President Donald Trump isn’t “fit for the job,” but he repeatedly refused to endorse growing Democratic calls that he be impeached for a second time. Biden’s comments followed a meeting between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her chamber’s Democratic caucus to consider another round of impeachment proceedings against Trump […]

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will not participate in the second presidential debate with Joe Biden after the Commission on Presidential Debates said the event will be held virtually due to the President’s positive coronavirus diagnosis. “I am not going to do a virtual debate,” Trump said on Fox Business. “I am not going to waste […]