Allies of President Donald Trump have been quick to threaten primary challengers for Republican senators who don’t back Trump ...

Around 4,000 anti-abortion demonstrators marched to the Capitol in Austin Saturday to celebrate the movement’s long-fought ...

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Republicans pushed forward with Pete Hegseth’s nomination as secretary of defense on Wednesday even after a damaging report ...

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) compared the Hegseth claims to the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, which wound up galvanizing GOP support for his successful confirmation to the Supreme Court.

When the idea of pardons for Jan. 6 defendants first circulated, the pushback from Republican senators was ... Senate Majority Leader John Thune (South Dakota) said he was not “looking backwards ...

Republican Senators ducked answering questions ... “I hadn’t heard that,” Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso of Wyoming told The Independent. “I’m not exactly sure what he was--what ...

But Republican Senators remained largely tight ... “I’ll talk about that later,” in the week. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told The Independent ...