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Trump's tweets unnerve Republican allies

President Trump unified Washington Thursday — in opposition to a pair of tweets he wrote in which he criticized a female MSNBC anchor and said she had undergone plastic surgery...  Read more

Trump Strikes Friendly Note with South Korea

President Donald Trump will meet with South Korean president Moon Jae-in today, his latest diplomatic meeting focusing on how to deal with Korea’s troublesome neighbors to the north...  Read more

Frustrated, Trump Eyes China Tariffs

Two months after President Donald Trump hosted Chinese president Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago hotel in Florida and declared their relationship to be “outstanding,” the White House seems to be changing its tune...  Read more

Atlantic Coast drilling would be bad for business

The Trump administration is now preparing to overturn that hard-fought victory by allowing seismic exploration for oil off the Atlantic Coast...  Read more

Healthcare bill really could become 'Trumpcare' with centrists in play

The votes in play right now seem to belong to centrists and soft conservatives from Medicaid expansion states...  Read more

Senate leadership scrambles to lock down healthcare votes

It is not clear if McConnell can reach a deal by the end of the week...  Read more

Big energy users: Trump's natural gas exports will take away jobs

Industrial users of energy are warning that exporting natural gas will hurt U.S. manufacturing and reduce jobs in the long run...  Read more

McConnell Yanks Senate Health Bill

The legislation faces opposition from both conservatives for not doing enough and from moderates for cutting too much...  Read more

Another bleak Supreme Court decision for property rights

Property owners have long suffered under the Supreme Court's erratic rulings...  Read more

Conservatives target insurance requirements in Senate health bill

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., suggested that people with pre-existing conditions could enroll in group plans or association plans...  Read more

Trump to rally Congress on immigration after healthcare setback

President Trump wants to penalize so-called sanctuary cities, or jurisdictions that do not cooperate with federal immigration officials...  Read more

Paul Ryan: Republicans will be vindicated in 2018 on healthcare

"The Democrats are in disarray," Ryan told the Washington Examiner...  Read more

Supreme Court Unanimously Allows for Partial Implementation of Travel Ban

The court will hear oral arguments regarding the ban next term...  Read more

Tax reform can level the playing field in the energy market

When it comes to energy, a sector that is helping drive economic growth nationwide, tax policy can be profoundly influential in investment decisions...  Read more

White House leaving healthcare heavy lifting to Senate Republicans

President Trump has not been as directly involved in courting votes for the Senate healthcare bill as he was for the House's legislation, instead relying heavily on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...  Read more

Supreme Court strikes a blow against 19th century religious intolerance

Seven of the nine justices on the Supreme Court of the United States ruled against a provision in many state constitutions that was originally aimed at curtailing the influence of Catholicism...  Read more

Lawmakers launch measures to fight terrorism online

Many technology companies have already instituted their own policies to deal with terrorist chatter, and industry groups warn that government intervention is not the appropriate step forward...  Read more

Mike Lee Thinks the Healthcare Bill Is a Joke

But he'll vote for It under one condition...  Read more