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Suburban Democrats like Jason Crow campaign on gun-control policies as NRA spending plummets
Democratic congressional candidates in suburban swing seats are embracing restrictions on firearms as election-related spending from pro-gun groups, including the powerhouse National Rifle Association, has plummeted.
Koch network says it will not support Republican Senate candidate in North Dakota
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The Koch political network announced Monday that it does not currently plan to support Republican Kevin Cramer in his effort to unseat Sen. Heidi Heitkamp in...
How Cambridge Analytica broke into the U.S. political market through Mercer-allied conservative groups
Two years before helping Donald Trump target prospective 2016 supporters, the now-embattled data firm Cambridge Analytica tested its tools with an array of conservative groups allied with the wealthy Mercer...
Arizona Rep. Trent Franks to resign, says he broached surrogacy with subordinates
Rep. Trent Franks, an Arizona Republican who is among the most conservative members of the House, said he would resign his seat after House officials learned that he had asked...
How House members guard their secrets in sexual harassment cases
In the secretive system that governs most sexual-harassment settlements in the House, no single lawmaker or committee has a full picture of how many complaints were settled or how much...
Treasury fund paid for Texas Rep. Farenthold’s $84,000 sexual harassment settlement
Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, used $84,000 in taxpayer dollars to settle with a former aide who sued him for sexual harassment in 2014, The Washington Post confirmed Friday.
Trump has made 836 false or misleading claims since January
Shortly before reaching the six-month mark of his presidency, President Donald Trump made an assertion and then paused that perhaps he should not be so definitive. "I better say 'think,'...
Fact check: Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ claim that “criminals take notice” of cities with sanctuary policies
In a speech about "sanctuary cities," Sessions cited research from University of California at Riverside that does not actually support his point.
Fact check: President Trump’s misleading claims about new mines and “clean coal”
Trump said the Paris agreement is hurting the development of the coal industry in America, where "mines are starting to open up," and where the agreement is blocking the development...
Fact Checker: Did Trump and Sessions flip-flop on Comey’s decisions in the Clinton investigation?
President Donald Trump has fired James Comey as director of the FBI, citing Comey's handling of the agency's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server. Through a Tuesday memo by...