Conservatives are conveying anger with northern Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie over his vote to oppose a resolution censuring California Rep. Adam Schiff, a favorite boogeyman of Republicans. Massie ...

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North Carolina’s State Bureau of Investigation and its insurers have agreed to pay $12.475 million to two innocent men who spent a total of 31 years behind bars. The state agreed to pay $7.85 million ...

Rand Paul was the lone Republican senator to support a resolution by Sen. Bernie Sanders to direct the State Department to issue a report to Congress on Israel’s human rights record. The resolution, ...

As early as 2020, Democrats in Pennsylvania were billing the expected U.S. Senate primary between Conor Lamb and John Fetterman as an epic clash between two titans: the clean-cut moderate “beauty” ...

Gold-mining dredges, called dragons, like this one photographed in 2020 in Rio Quito in western Colombia lift the river bed and destroy river banks to collect material that is going to be ground, ...

Seven Republican presidential candidates tussled in the second GOP primary debate Wednesday, each striving to establish themselves as the most attractive alternative nominee to Donald Trump, who ...

The next U.S. Senate election in Kentucky isn’t scheduled for more than 950 days, but Mitch McConnell’s expected exit from his seat in 2027 leaves a once-in-a-generation opportunity for a pack of ...

Amid confusion late last year regarding his status on President Donald Trump’s legal team, former Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy said Thursday he has no plans to formally assist the White House in its ...

What Donald Trump said – and did not say – about the Ku Klux Klan and former Klansman David Duke has emerged as a major controversy in the 2016 presidential campaign. “Trump has hesitated to reject an ...

Sen. Rand Paul accelerated his case Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic likely originated from a lab leak in Wuhan, China, castigating government scientists for continually concealing information ...