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Mitch McConnell, the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican senator and former Senate Majority Leader who is set to retire in January, was admitted to the hospital on Sunday morning, his spokesperson David Popp confirmed in a statement that disclosed nothing about the reason for the hospitalization.
President Trump announced Friday that Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, known as Niño Guerrero and described by US authorities as the leader of Tren de Aragua, was killed in a US military strike on a compound in Venezuela's Bolívar state.
Graham Platner won the Maine Democratic Senate primary on June 9 2026 setting up a November race against Republican Senator Susan Collins. Democrats see the Maine seat as critical to their chances of winning back the Senate majority.
Lindsey Graham won the South Carolina Republican Senate primary on June 9 2026 with 59 percent of the vote avoiding a runoff. He faces Democratic pediatrician Annie Andrews in the November 3 general election.
Former national security advisor John Bolton agreed to plead guilty to one felony count of retaining classified information on June 4 2026. He will pay more than $2 million in fines as part of the deal.
What Trump Did That No One Else Had Done Donald Trump did something no modern president had done. He treated clemency as a constitutional answer to institutional abuse. Other presidents used the pardon quietly and defensively, usually at the end of a term and with little explanat
Barney Frank, the acerbic, quick-witted Massachusetts Democrat who represented southern Massachusetts in the House of Representatives for 32 years, helped overhaul Wall Street regulation after the 2008 financial crisis through the landmark legislation that bears his name, and mad
The Senate seat that Mitch McConnell has held since 1984, 42 years, a tenure that made him the longest-serving Senate party leader in American history, is being handed to the next generation of Kentucky Republicans. And President Trump picked who gets it. Andy Barr, the seven-ter
President Trump stood at the White House on Monday May 18, 2026 alongside Mark Cuban, the billionaire entrepreneur who campaigned for Kamala Harris in 2024, and announced the most significant expansion yet of TrumpRx.gov, the administration’s direct-to-consumer drug pricing platf
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday May 14, 2026, in a 15-9 vote that moves the most significant piece of cryptocurrency legislation in American history to the next stage of the congressional process. The vote was largely along pa
The mayor of Arcadia, California has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government, the Department of Justice announced Monday May 11, 2026. Eileen Wang, 58, was charged with one count of acting in the United States as an illegal agent of a foreig
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the birth of her second child on Thursday May 7, 2026. The baby, a girl named Viviana, already nicknamed Vivi, was born on May 1. In an Instagram post that included a photo of herself holding her newborn daughter, Leavitt wro
Alberta separatists formally submitted nearly 302,000 signatures to Elections Alberta in Edmonton on Monday May 4, 2026, formally triggering the process that could lead to a provincewide vote on whether Alberta should leave Canada. The group needed 178,000 signatures to force the
