House GOP Leader Rep. Lisa Demuth, R-Cold Spring, is sworn in after being voted in by only Republicans as speaker on the first day of the 2025 Legislature. Democrats' desks were empty in protest.

Gretchen Whitmer ends her time in that office. Nesbitt, a Republican from Lawton, held the top Republican role in the state Senate as its minority leader during the recently concluded legislative ...

These pardons are an affront to the rule of law but many in the Republican Party aren’t treating it as such. By Michael Steele This is an adapted excerpt from the Jan. 21 episode of "The Beat ...

President Donald Trump will meet with a trio of moderate House Republicans at the White House on Wednesday as he courts unified GOP support for his agenda in the closely divided chamber ...

Republican efforts to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from numbers used to divvy up congressional seats among states have begun anew, with four Republican state attorneys general suing to alter ...

Climate advocates are alarmed by President Trump’s return to the White House. But Republicans may hold the key to bridging the partisan gap on climate solutions. Consider what’s happening in ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A briefcase of a census taker is seen as she knocks on the door of a residence, Aug. 11, 2020, in Winter ...

WASHINGTON – Congressional Republicans have been talking for months about how swiftly they'll move to enact President Donald Trump's agenda once he comes into office. That time has finally come.

Republican senators struggled to defend Donald Trump’s decision to commute and pardon hundreds of January 6 protesters, including those who were charged and convicted of crimes against police ...

Republican lawmakers are already shifting goalposts to justify Trump pardoning or commuting the sentences of nearly 1,600 January 6 insurrectionists—many of whom assaulted police officers, an ...

Carrie Underwood has performed at Donald Trump‘s presidential inauguration. Find out if she’s a Republican below! Is Carrie Underwood a Republican? It is unknown whether Carrie is a Republican ...