On Wednesday, a 39-hour Democratic filibuster in the Missouri Senate ended as Republicans forced a vote and approved a proposal to prohibit sanctions against groups and wedding vendors that discriminate same-sex couples for religious reasons.
Republicans in the House of Representatives are preparing legal actions to prevent President Barack Obama from closing a US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has fueled the Democratics dream of taking the Senate majority seat. Both the Republican and the Democratic Party are cramming to take vacant position.
The Republican and Democrat political parties hunker down for a long-drawn out war as President Barack Obama exercises his constitutional right to find a nominee to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scala in the Supreme Court. The Republicans argue that the president, in his last year in office, should leave the nomination to his successor.
President Barack Obama has started to beef up his strategy on nominating a new US Supreme Court Justice to replace the late Antonin Scalia. He has reportedly come up with a short list of people whose backgrounds are currently being checked by the President's team.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia;s death has left an important, controversial question: Should President Barack Obama, in his last 10 months in office, be allowed to appoint a justice who would likely create a liberal majority on the Supreme Court?
Obama to nominate new Supreme Court Justice. Republicans will do everything to stop him. After Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died at age 79, Obama is planning to nominate someone to replace him.
Presidential candidate Donald Trump and his campaign manager are given a cease-and-desist order by Republican strategist Cherri Jacobus for allegedly maligning her in social media.
On Thursday, Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Thursday reacted swiftly to President Barack Obama's call for a new, $10 per barrel tax on oil. The party promised to kill what they called an "absurd" idea.
The Republicans failed in their latest attempt to take away Obama's health care law. The House would have repealed Obamacare and took away Planned Parenthood's funding.
The US dropped Alireza Moazami Goudarzi's charges on January 16. This then prompted Judge Castel to challenged the government's action regarding the charges being dropped against Goudarzi.
Senate democrats, especially under Obama's administration, have successfully voided the bill aimed to create stricter screening process to Syrian and Iraqi refugees. Meanwhile talks on considering Trump's proposed Muslim ban bill has taken the limelight in the House.
A veteran attorney in Ted Cruz's hometown of Houston has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Canadian-born senator's eligibility to be president. Newton Schwartz‘s suit argues that the Supreme Court must decide whether Cruz is fit to run for the office of presidency.
House speaker Paul Ryan is looking to wage war against ISIS through an A.U.M.F. measure. He recently urged he House majority leader and the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to talk to the members regarding its feasibility.
Following Obama's announcement of the executive actions to tighten gun control laws, recent poll found that most Americans (67 percent) support the changes announced, but most are skeptical about the effectiveness of Obama's actions.
After North Korea's announcement of successfully testing a nuclear bomb, the United States is eyeing on a possible strong response through a vote on a measure aiming to impose stronger punishment to companies doing business with the country.
