Mike Rounds

Once upon a time, a charismatic demagogue threatened civil war, while elected liberals flailed around helplessly

A former Park Service ranger says U.S. Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy has been lying about a bullet wound that the candidate said came from fighting in Afghanistan.

Kamala Harris is the third presidential nominee in the last half-century to run as a sitting vice president, presenting unique challenges for her campaign.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries vows calm, stable governance over Republican chaos if his party wins the majority in the 2024 elections.

The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board endorses Jonathan Jackson, Robin Kelly, Mike Quigley, Sean Casten and Danny Davis for the U.S. House.

The border was featured heavily in a speech by former President Bill Clinton in Georgia, where he is stumping for Vice President Kamala Harris.

If given a second term, the Republican and his allies are preparing to go much further.

Voters in a ring of congressional districts encircling New York City where Republican candidates often do well but Trump struggled in 2020 could decide which party controls the U.S. House for the next two years.

#TheAgenda has an agenda to push.

There’s little oversight or accountability for how Texas soldiers guarding the border treat migrants and asylum-seekers, critics say.

The necessity of a strong American power grid, which alone can power our homes, businesses and military bases, must transcend partisan politics.

WASHINGTON — Leading defense authorizers say they hope to move swiftly on a top legislative priority — the annual, must-pass defense policy bill — when Congress returns to town in a month and a half.

An October surprise is usually defined as the well-known (and more often left-wing) tactic of manufacturing or unloading a news story right before voting to surprise a rival without allowing them time sufficiently to respond or recover.

City officials announced the second phase of its heat pump incentive program, which offers homeowners up to $1,500 assistance to replace air conditioners and $500 to replace existing heat pumps.

A newly unsealed court filing sheds fresh light on the pair's interactions.

Lawmakers and the Secret Service in the past week have revealed stunning failures in planning, leadership and communication that allowed a 20-year-old gunman to nearly assassinate Donald Trump at a July 13 rally in Butler County, Pennyslvania — where the...

Jan. 6... Terminating the Constitution... Rounding up 21 million people.... America, we’ve got some bad news.

After four years of coddling Iran and allowing them to enrich themselves, the Biden-Harris administration has endeared itself to one of the most anti-democratic regimes in the world.

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance is walking a fine line by continuing to spread unfounded rumors of Haitians eating pets in Ohio.

Some of Donald Trump’s advisers are meeting foreign officials on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly where U.S. allies are seeking to get a grasp on what a Trump win in the Nov. 5 election would mean for U.S. foreign policy. It was not clear who had met or planned to meet the [...]

The early spending by both parties reveals which races are seen as the most competitive, and the ones that could alter the balance of power at the State House.

One year since House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was booted from office after Congress voted to fund the federal government, the new House Speaker Mike Johnson finds himself courting, but so far avoiding, a similar fate. Johnson is preparing to lead...

The GOP presidential nominee's pitches to working-class voters — including capping credit card interest rates — aren't convincing members of his party on Capitol Hill.

Sen. Cornyn is highlighting his fundraising ability as he and others battle to fill Minority Leader McConnell's shoes in the next Congress.

Donald Trump has claimed that a group of Air Force pilots with a "blond crew-cut" entered his Oval Office and told him about a series of bizarre encounters with UFOs

Golf may provide a welcome distraction to presidents, but for U.S. Secret Service agents, presidential golfing is a nightmare assignment.

The latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content

Ryan Routh, suspect in the second failed Trump assassination, spent about 12 hours camped outside the former president's golf club in West Palm Beach before his arrest.

Republicans on Tuesday blocked a bill that would have created a right to access IVF treatments and mandated that insurance plans cover the practice, deriding the vote as a political ploy. Senators voted against advancing the bill, 51-44, marking the second time Democrats have sought to put Republicans on the record on the contentious issue. [...]

Is it time to stop changing our clocks twice a year? Here's a state-by-state look at efforts to make daylight saving time permanent.

Ohio state police will help protect schools in a city at the center of a political furor over Haitian migrants, the governor announced Monday, while local officials canceled an annual celebration of cultural diversity in the fallout over former President Donald Trump’s false claims about pet-eating.Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, has denounced the debunked rumors that spread online before Trump amplified them at last week's presidential debate, saying there is no evidence of it. He said at a news conference in Springfield on Monday that dozens of members of the Ohio State Highway Patrol will be stationed in city schools starting Tuesday following a series of threats across the city, sweeping each building every morning before the arrival of faculty or students. Security cameras have also been stationed at strategic spots in the city, and a bomb-sniffing dog will be in the city and available round-the-clock.“We know that people are very, very concerned,” DeWine said. “But we’ve moved resources into Springfield. People have the right to feel safe as well as being safe.”Springfield City Hall, several schools, and state motor vehicle offices in Springfield were forced to evacuate last week after receiving bomb threats. At least 33 separate bomb threats were made in recent days, all of them hoaxes, DeWine said. He said some of the threats came from overseas, but declined to name the country.

Drew Saplin, a 2006 Owasso High School graduate, is the writer and director of “COHETES,” a fictional story blending action, adventure and family drama with an original screenplay.

"It makes me happy that he hasn't forgotten about us in California," said Torrance City Councilmember Aurelio Mattucci

Donald Trump has emerged from a rocky debate against Kamala Harris looking to regain his footing with 55 days until Election Day. Not even three months ago, Trump stepped off the debate stage in Atlanta having watched President Joe Biden...

Former Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo González arrived in Spain on Sunday after fleeing into exile as part of a negotiated deal with Nicolás Maduro's government that dealt a major blow to millions who placed their hopes in his opposition campaign.

LOS ANGELES — A few weeks into the largest racial justice protests in modern American history, the lone Black woman in the U.S. Senate appeared on “Good Morning America” to address one of the most controversial aspects of the debate.

As with the "defund" debate more broadly, the rhetoric on both sides is oversimplified — and the reality much more nuanced.

With inflation and high grocery prices still frustrating many voters, Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed a ban on “price gouging” by food suppliers and grocery stores.

Stephanie Murphy, then-candidate for Congress from Florida, speaks while flanked by the House Democratic women at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 26, 2016.

New release celebrates a major philanthropic milestone by Vintner John Anthony Truchard in Chicago, IL NAPA, Calif., Aug. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- John Anthony Vineyards, the premium Napa Valley winery that anchors the prestigious John Anthony Wine & Spirits portfolio, announces the...

538 breaks down five high-profile primaries for the U.S. Senate and House in Florida and Alaska.

President Joe Biden makes his way to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in May.

The Democratic National Convention begins Monday in Chicago, with roughly 50,000 people expected to arrive in the Windy City. That includes thousands of anti-war activists demonstrating near the United Center. President Joe Biden is the headline speaker for the first evening.

By The Associated Press The Democratic National Convention begins Monday in Chicago, with roughly 50,000 people expected to arrive in the Windy City. That includes thousands of anti-war activists demonstrating near the United Center. President Joe Biden is the headline speaker for the first evening. Later this week, Vice President Kamala Harris will officially accept [...]

By The Associated Press The Democratic National Convention begins Monday in Chicago, with roughly 50,000 people expected to arrive in the Windy City. That includes thousands of anti-war activists demonstrating near the United Center. President Joe Biden is the headline speaker for the first evening. Later this week, Vice President Kamala Harris will officially accept [...]

Nebraska lawmakers on Friday advanced the property tax relief plan that numerous senators labeled "the very least we could do."

Nebraska lawmakers looked for politically palatable ways to do more than the "absolute minimum" for property tax relief, and the governor's stripped-down plan appeared to lose support.

A small group of term-limited lawmakers engaged in an filibuster meant to torpedo a fail-safe tax plan in an effort to push senators to come up with something more substantial.