GEORGE W. BUSH

At this year's G-7 summit Germany will push its plan for countries to join together in a ‘climate club' to tackle global warming.

Reinforced by Trump appointments, conservatives take on controversies dear to the right.

The five justices who overturned Roe vs. Wade were nominated by three Republican presidents. Most of the votes to confirm the justices were by men.

An attorney working as a senior investigator for the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection will leave the post amid calls urging him to run for a Missouri U.S. Senate seat as an independent.

Former Republican U.S. Sen. John Danforth and others are urging a former federal prosecutor who now serves as an attorney for the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection to make an independent run for one of Missouri’s Senate seats.

Kentucky gubernatorial hopeful Ryan Quarles is doubling down on his grassroots Republican strategy.

It's not just his poor approval rating; it's his utter lack of a political base.

Public trust in the government has fallen to “near historic lows,” according to a Pew Research Center report released this week.

California is a Democratic fortress, but Tuesday’s primary election may have revealed some cracks.

For almost two decades, lawmakers in Washington have been pushing legislation that would rein in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Facing a near-certain presidential veto, the proposal has never crossed the finish line. Now, the legislation is getting a new look amid surging gasoline and oil prices.

A movement known as Christian nationalism is making its presence known in many Republican primary races this year.

To avoid more senseless bloodshed, the Kremlin must lose what empire it still retains.

Assault-weapons bans and other familiar proposals would have little effect, and therefore have lukewarm public support. Advocates should focus on practical measures, like red-flag laws.

Assault-weapons bans and other familiar proposals would have little effect, and therefore have lukewarm public support. Advocates should focus on practical measures.

For almost two decades, lawmakers in Washington have been pushing legislation that would rein in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Facing a near-certain presidential veto, the proposal has never crossed the finish line. Now, the legislation is getting a new look amid surging gasoline and oil prices.

Federal authorities say an Iraqi man living in Ohio has been arrested for plotting to assassinate former President George W. Bush.

Federal authorities say an Iraqi man living in Ohio has been arrested for plotting to assassinate former President George W. Bush.

An Iraqi man has been arrested and accused of plotting to kill former president George W. Bush because he was "responsible for killing many Iraqis."

For almost two decades, lawmakers in Washington have been pushing legislation that would rein in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Facing a near-certain presidential veto, the proposal has never crossed the finish line. Now, the legislation is getting a new look amid surging gasoline and oil prices.

In the Republican runoff for attorney general, incumbent Ken Paxton—not to mention Donald Trump—got his wish.

Bush’s defeat in the race for attorney general could mark the end of a four-generation political dynasty, and the end of an era of Texas politics that began when the first George Bush moved to Odessa in 1948.

"'Ugh,' he said. 'They're all horrible to me,'" Kellyanne Conway wrote of Trump's response when she suggested engaging with former presidents on COVID.

President Biden is addressing the killing of at least 15 at an elementary school in Texas.

The FBI said the man was involved in a scheme to smuggle four ISIS operatives into the country to kill the former president.

An Iraqi citizen who entered the U.S. in September 2020 allegedly plotted to kill George W. Bush, even traveling to Dallas to surveil the former president’s home, according to an FBI search warrant affidavit obtained by NBC News.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uncovered a plot by an alleged ISIS operative to assassinate former President George W. Bush, Forbes reported Tuesday, citing an FBI search warrant. The alleged plot was uncovered after the suspect revealed information about his plans and asked a confidential FBI source to “obtain replica or fraudulent police and/or…

State Rep. Bee Nguyen is advancing to a runoff in the Democratic primary for Georgia secretary of state.

President Joe Biden has warned fellow leaders of the informal Indo-Pacific security coalition known as the Quad that they are “navigating through a dark hour in our shared history.”.

Gerhard Schroeder left the German chancellery after a narrow election defeat in 2005 with an ambitious overhaul of the country’s welfare state beginning to kick in and every chance of a future as a respected elder statesman.

Georgia takes center stage in Tuesday’s primary elections as Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger try to fight back challengers endorsed by Donald Trump.

The $40 billion U.S. package of assistance for Ukraine as it tries to fend off Russia's aggression is hitching a ride on a commercial flight to South Korea so it can be signed by President Joe Biden.

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Biden's vice president, spokeswoman and daughter are not close contacts when it comes to covid, raising the question: Who does meet at length with the president?

In a speech, Bush criticized "the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq — I mean of Ukraine."

Heart surgeon-turned-TV celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick are locked in a too-early-to-call race for the Republican nomination to fill an open Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat.

The last full day of campaigning in Pennsylvania’s hotly contested primaries for governor and U.S. Senate is under way, with a top Senate candidate in the hospital and establishment Republicans trying to stave off victories by candidates they view as too toxic to win in the fall.

Justice Clarence Thomas says that the Supreme Court has been changed by the shocking leak of a draft opinion earlier this month.

When a draft of the opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito in the Mississippi abortion case was leaked late Monday, the potential outcome — the overruling of Roe v.

It's been clear in recent years that people in the United States don't have much faith in their institutions.

For almost two decades, lawmakers in Washington have been pushing legislation that would rein in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Facing a near-certain presidential veto, the proposal has never crossed the finish line. Now, the legislation is getting a new look amid surging gasoline and oil prices.

John Roberts is heading a Supreme Court in crisis.

The Education Department has canceled around $6.8 billion in student debt for more than 110,000 borrowers through the public service loan forgiveness waiver.

Norman Mineta, who as federal transportation secretary ordered commercial flights grounded after the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001, has died.

People on both sides of the abortion divide have been anticipating that the Supreme Court this summer would reverse the landmark 1973 Roe v.

President Joe Biden says the “basic fairness and the stability of our law demand” that the U.S. Supreme Court not overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v.

President Joe Biden is blasting what he calls a “radical” leaked draft opinion suggesting the Supreme Court is poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v.

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When it comes to being unpopular, I’m unfortunately somewhat of an expert.

Texas political leaders usually settle for caution. The big stuff is risky, but it’s also possible — and even inspiring — to see leaders ignoring the small stuff and aiming higher.

Actor Terry Crews is laying it all out there in his new book, "Tough: My Journey to True Power." Crews joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss his 12-year journey of transformation, what the word "tough" means to him, and how he found his voice in Hollywood.

Before he became a two-term president or even ran for Texas governor, George W. Bush was part-owner and General Managing Partner of MLB’s Texas Rangers, in a deal inked this week in 1989. We now know that the world of baseball almost kept the younger Bush away from following his father’s path to the highest office. In a memoir published in 2019, former MLB commissioner Bud Selig writes that “[h]ad things been different, he could have been the ninth commissioner, not me.” Yes, George W. Bush wasn’t so far from leading Major League Baseball, as opposed to the world’s most powerful country. In this counterfactual history, the implications for baseball are rich. But the much bigger question is what he would not have done for the nation and the world. Will and LZ talk about an alternate universe in which George W. Bush stuck to sports, with repercussions on the World Series and performance-enhancing drugs — and of course, on the course of the post-9/11 world.

Higher inflation will make it harder for either party to lower taxes, raise spending or both.

Readers share their views on DeSantis' governing style; inflation and gas prices; Agent White and mangroves; and President Biden's 'imploding' presidency

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Republican former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson announced Monday that he won't run again in a bid to take on the Democratic incumbent in the battleground state.

Back in 2001, Vladimir Putin was seeking respect from world leaders while pledging a new openness in Russia. That's what brought him to tiny Crawford, Texas, at the invite of President George W. Bush.

An effort by President Joe Biden's administration to account for potential damage from greenhouse gas emissions when creating rules for pollution-generating industries has survived another court challenge.

Barbara Bush's daughter, Cora Georgia, looked like her mini-me when they wore matching white dresses in an adorable new pic.

Recent hearings suggest they still haven’t grappled with the reality of when went on in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. on Houston Life: Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush Coyne. The twin sisters are the daughters of former President George W. Bush. Hager is currently the co-host of, “Today with Hoda & Jenna,” the fourth hour of NBC’s Today Show on KPRC 2. Coyne recently co-founded a non-profit and is a new mom. They’ll discuss plans about a big return to Houston and the release of their new children’s book.

The Defense Department says an Algerian man imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay detention center for nearly 20 years has been released and sent back to his homeland.

Biden was far from the first U.S. president to say what he thought about Russia or its leaders — or to pay a price for it.

The first-ever publication of 1950 census records promises to solve some family mysteries for amateur genealogists and family historians.

The release of the 1950 census allows us to see the first time America's three baby-boom presidents were recorded — or, at least, it should.

More than 100,000 borrowers will receive student debt forgiveness due to policy fixes to the public service loan forgiveness program.

As U.S. president, Joe Biden has a rarely used but potentially powerful tool to make up for energy supply shortages or economically damaging price spikes: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, or SPR. Set up in the aftermath of the Arab oil embargo in the 1970s as a national energy safety net, it’s the world’s largest supply of emergency crude, stored in deep and heavily guarded underground salt caverns along the U.S. Gulf Coast. The Biden administration is weighing a plan to release a million barrel

A federal judge in Texas is barring the Navy from taking action for now against sailors who've objected to being vaccinated against COVID-19 on religious grounds.

The best taco place in Ukraine.

Congressional leaders are hailing Republican Rep. Don Young as a colorful but pragmatic lawmaker who got things done for his constituents.

The Supreme Court is giving the Navy a freer hand determining what job assignments it gives to 35 sailors who sued after refusing on religious grounds to comply with an order to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

For 30 years, the U.S. has seized history by the collar, demanding compliance with its dictates. History has refused to oblige.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is being remembered as a woman of conviction and determination who liked to say she told things like they were and not the way she might like them to be.

As she pressed the Clinton administration into action against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic over war crimes in the Balkans, Madeleine Albright would harken back to her own childhood as a refugee from Czechoslovakia who fled the Nazis in war-torn Europe.

Madeleine Albright fled the Nazis as a child and climbed to the summit of diplomacy and foreign policy in the United States.

On Day 2, she faced questions from Republicans on her view of critical race theory, whether she called former President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "war criminals," and on the length of sentences she has handed down in child pornography cases.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a virtual address to Japan’s parliament, has called on the lawmakers to keep up sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine to pressure Moscow into seeking peace.

Four men once held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center were central to some of the questions Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson fielded during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

The effort furthers a growing GOP effort to call into question judges' representation of notorious clients — even as public defenders.

Russia’s aggression has united Americans against Vladimir Putin, but inflation still drives political attitudes and partisan divisions shape attitudes toward President Biden

When presidents nominate a candidate to serve on the Supreme Court, they often ask an experienced Washington hand to help shepherd that candidate through the Senate confirmation process.

The events of 2000, including the disputed election and the 9/11 hijackers' preparations, "broke" America, Andrew Rice argues.

An appeals court has revived a Biden administration effort to account for potential damage from greenhouse gas emissions when creating rules for polluting industries.

Emergencies like the Ukraine war produce temporary political consensus. That opens doors to both good and bad ideas and presents presidents with opportunities and perils.

Surprise Senate action to eliminate biannual clock changing displays an unusual feature of American democracy working the way it’s supposed to.

As CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund, David McCormick wore suits, lived on Connecticut’s ritzy Gold Coast and talked up bipartisanship.

Ending America’s foolish subsidies for ethanol could aid Ukraine.

President George W. Bush famously said he looked Putin in the eye and "was able to get a sense of his soul." President Joe Biden saw him differently.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip to Warsaw to thank Poland for taking in Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion is taking an unexpected turn.

The food shock of 2022 is not a good-news story. But our “bad” is less bad than ever before.

Experts say far-right groups in the U.S. are taking a more dangerously radical turn as four men go on trial in an alleged scheme to kidnap Michigan’s governor.

Not long after winding down 20 years of war, President Joe Biden now finds the United States entrenched in a conflict in Ukraine.

Republicans prefer to look the other way rather than confront antisemites and conspiracy-mongers in their ranks. Arizona offers the latest example.

President Joe Biden knows better than anyone the unexpected turns a Supreme Court nomination can take after it lands on Capitol Hill.

In his State of the Union address, President Biden embraced one of Trump’s worst ideas.

Republicans backed by Trump all won on Tuesday in the nation’s first 2022 midterm voting, but that doesn’t say much about the former president’s political clout.

Vladimir Putin is raising fears that he has become more reckless, more committed to restoring the USSR, perhaps more likely to set off a world-altering war.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott will face Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke after voters in Texas opened what could be a lengthy, bruising primary season.

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Comedian and television host John Oliver took a shot at George W. Bush for a statement the former president issued condemning Russian's invasion of Ukraine last week. "I join the international community in condemning Vladimir Putin's unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine," Bush said after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. "Hold on, George. Not from you," Oliver shot back during a segment on the...

After all, they have won 13 Grammy Awards.