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John Rood CAPITOL HILL: President Trump’s nominee for the Pentagon’s top policy job appears to be in jeopardy after a bipartisan savaging by Senators John McCain and Elizabeth Warren this morning. At issue: Whether John Rood, who runs international sales at the world’s largest defense contractor, Lockheed Martin, would recuse himself from policy discussions affecting

WASHINGTON — House Republicans approved their sweeping tax-cut package Thursday, setting up a showdown with the Senate, where Republicans are struggling to take a different approach. Shortly before the House vote, President Donald Trump arrived on Capitol Hill to bolster Republicans determined to push the tax package through Congress — and accomplish a top GOP

Alabama conservative Judge Roy Moore appears to be losing his shot at a seat in the U.S. Senate that was previously a near-guaranteed win. This follows numerous accusations of inappropriate behavior, including making sexual advances on a 14-year-old girl. Related: Here’s how Donald Trump could actually be impeached The allegations arrived during a watershed moment

A group of Democrats on Wednesday announced that they would be filing multiple articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, marking the most significant push to remove the president from office. The move was led by Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee, who first declared his intention to initiate the impeachment process following Trump’s controversial “both

NEWARK, N.J.—The sixth full day of deliberations at the corruption trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez came and went without a single note or question from the jury — and no verdict. Jurors emerged from 5{ hours of discussions Wednesday afternoon with their heads hung, seemingly fatigued. U.S. District Court Judge William H. Walls dismissed