GEORGE W. BUSH

Former President Donald Trump is holding off on making a new endorsement in Pennsylvania’s closely watched Republican primary for U.S. Senate.

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics open in just over a week.

The House committee’s conversations with Barr are further indication that several former Trump administration officials are cooperating with the panel even as others are fighting efforts to compel their testimony.

Yet these early reversals haven't always been crippling. On the contrary, three of the past four presidents elected — and five of the past eight — have recovered from shaky starts to win re-election.

Public opinion remains bitterly divided on the issue, but an imminent Supreme Court decision could overturn or dramatically undercut Roe v. Wade.

Public opinion remains bitterly divided on the issue, but an imminent Supreme Court decision could overturn or dramatically undercut Roe v. Wade.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is drawing criticism for comments he made shortly before the GOP blocked a federal elections bill, when he said that “African American” voters cast ballots at similar rates to “Americans.”.

The NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, will soon celebrate its 113th birthday, which its leaders say comes as it undergoes a restructuring to reflect a membership and leadership that is trending younger.

President Joe Biden is announcing his nominating prominent Democratic fundraiser Jane Hartley to serve as ambassador to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.

Joe Biden’s long arc in public life has always had one final ambition: to sit behind the Resolute Desk of the Oval Office.

The late Sen_ Harry Reid has been remembered at the U_S_ Capitol as a “legendary leader.”.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other leading Republicans are intensifying a personal late-stage push to persuade Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan to run for the Senate.

MSNBC says it has hired former Biden aide Symone Sanders to host a weekend television show and another on its Peacock streaming service.

Advocates for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center were hopeful when President Joe Biden took office.

The political warrior who's been dubbed "Bush's Brain" said patriotism demands that Republicans condemn the Jan. 6 riots at the nation's Capitol.

The political warrior who's been dubbed "Bush's Brain" said patriotism demands that Republicans condemn the Jan. 6 riots at the nation's Capitol.

Just a year ago, many Republicans joined Democrats in reacting with horror to the Capitol insurrection.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has made a surprise appearance in the House in a show of support for his daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney.

The Jan. 6 insurrection anniversary has meant a day of solemn remembrance, but mainly for Democrats.

A federal judge in Texas has granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Navy from acting against 35 sailors for refusing on religious grounds to comply with an order to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The White House says President Joe Biden has conferred with Ukraine’s leader over the Russian troop buildup near its border, promising that the U.S. and allies will act “decisively” if Russia further invades Ukraine.

After tough talk between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin over the Russian troop buildup on the Ukraine border, both sides insist they are hopeful that a pathway to easing tensions could open during diplomatic talks set for January.

2021 was filled with tremendous loss, from staggering COVID deaths to those of leading writers such as Joan Didion and bell hooks to a longtime abortion activist and politicians who shaped our world.

Presidents and former colleagues are lauding longtime Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who died Tuesday.

Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died at home in Henderson, Nevada.

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has died.

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is being remembered by Democrats as well as Republicans as a skilled dealmaker who was both strong and compassionate.

Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died at home in Henderson, Nevada.

Many borrowers are finally due to get their student loans excused under the public service loan forgiveness program, after reforms by the Biden administration.

A South African Cabinet minister is urging the cancellation of an upcoming U.S. auction of a key to the Robben Island prison cell where Nelson Mandela, the country’s first Black president, was long jailed for his opposition to apartheid.

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell is openly recruiting Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin after his fractious split with the White House over the president’s social and environmental spending package.

Relative to its strength in Congress, the Biden administration has proven outstandingly successful.

Californians are self-obsessed and believe themselves exceptional. In other words, they fit right in. Plus, Texas needs ’em.

Last year, Racicot said he planned to vote for President Biden in the 2020 election because of personal differences with former President Trump.

As President Joe Biden announces two more ambassador nominees, the White House and Democrats are warning that maneuvering by some Senate Republicans to block all but a small fraction of Biden’s diplomatic and other national security appointees is doing serious harm to U.S. diplomatic efforts around the globe.

A federal appeals court panel has lifted a nationwide ban against President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for health workers, creating the potential for patchwork enforcement across the country.

A Russian military buildup has raised fears in Ukraine and the West that Moscow could invade its neighbor.

On Thursday, Texas Land Commissioner and candidate for Texas Attorney General George P....

The U.S. has ordered an arms embargo on Cambodia, citing deepening Chinese military influence, corruption and human rights abuses in the Southeast Asian country.

Diplomatic boycotts of the Olympics aim to snub host nations while keeping athletes free to compete.

Angela Merkel is credited with raising Germany’s profile and influence and working to hold a fractious European Union together.

China has accused the United States of violating the Olympic spirit after the Biden administration announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Games over human rights concerns.

The White House says the U.S. will stage a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing to protest Chinese human rights abuses.

Dole died in his sleep early Sunday morning, according to the Elizabeth Dole Foundation.

U.S. leaders and military veterans are mourning the loss of former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, a World War II veteran and former Republican presidential candidate who served in Congress for 36 years.

Pennsylvania's high-stakes race for an open U.S. Senate seat is seeing candidates bringing big bank accounts and big-time connections from blue states.

We’ve been here before, with the fate of abortion rights throughout the United States in doubt and awaiting a decision by the Supreme Court.

Anita McBride, who served as Laura Bush's chief of staff, told Insider that first ladies wear custom outfits to avoid matching other guests.

They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service.

The momentous occasions range from the 'first Thanksgiving' in 1598 to the largest gathering of people dressed like turkeys

Donald Trump’s first post-White House book will be, like so much else about him, a departure from other former presidents.

President Biden is briefly transferring powers of the presidency to Vice President Kamala Harris as he undergoes a routine physical.

President Joe Biden’s choice to become one of the top banking regulators endured a contentious nomination hearing Thursday, with Republican senators warning she would nationalize the U.S. banking system and Democrats saying she’s eminently qualified and would be tough overseer of Wall Street.

President Joe Biden has joined with the leaders of Canada and Mexico to revive what used to be a North American tradition before the Trump presidency.

President Joe Biden nominated Saule Omarova to be the nation’s next comptroller of the currency in September.

Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon’s appearance in federal court on contempt charges provides a rare glimpse into one of the least-used powers of Congress at work — and how historically difficult it has been.

The poll shows Republicans coming near-even with Democrats on an issue that historically favors Democrats by a wide margin.

President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping are agreeing they need to tread carefully as their nations find themselves in an increasingly fraught competition.

The presidents recorded a video urging Americans to support a museum to honor America's heroes.

U.S. government attorneys have asked a federal judge to uphold a decision from the waning days of the Trump administration that lifted protections for gray wolves across most of the country.

Fox NewsFox News anchor Harris Faulkner had her conspiratorial bubble surprisingly burst on Thursday by Ari Fleischer of all people, who unequivocally told her that President Joe Biden does actually control the White House.After spending an inordinate amount of her Thursday morning interview with the former Bush flack discussing the right-wing outrage du jour—that Vice President Kamala Harris supposedly used a French accent—Faulkner, who has long been touted by Fox News as one of its “straight n

The conservative writer, who counts George W. Bush and Henry Kissinger among his admirers, discusses imperial nostalgia and his new book about the maligned monarch.

Matthew Dowd, a former Bush campaign adviser who is running as a Democrat in Texas’ lieutenant governor race, said Sunday that Jesus Christ today would be declared "woke" by conservatives.

Former President George W. Bush marked his 44th wedding anniversary with Laura by sharing a photo from their 1977 wedding.

The former Secretary of State, who is being honored at the National Cathedral, had a clear notion of “what serving this nation was all about.”

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The Former Secretary of State Tells Margaret Brennan "I absolutely approve"

Democrats became the dominant political force in Virginia over the past decade, but their grip was weakened in Tuesday's gubernatorial election.

Huma Abedin is ready to speak.

Critics of President Joe Biden have come up with a cryptic new phrase to insult the Democratic president.

In only a handful of cases has the Supreme Court moved as quickly as it is in the fight over the Texas law that bans most abortions.

President Joe Biden says Pope Francis told him he's a “good Catholic” and should keep taking Communion when the world's two most prominent Roman Catholics met at the Vatican on Friday.

After supporters of former President Trump interrupted President Biden's appearance at a rally for Terry McAuliffe, the Democrat running for governor of Virginia, Mr. Trump released a statement saying, "see you soon!" Washington Post political reporter Laura Vozzella spoke with Anne-Marie Green and Vladimir Duthiers on CBSN about the impact on Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin's campaign, and Youngkin's political ad featuring a mother who wanted a book banned from schools.

When President Joe Biden meets with Pope Francis on Friday, he won’t kiss the ring.

COVID-19 travel restrictions will cut the representatives of Pacific island nations attending U.N. climate talks that begin this weekend in Scotland.

Texas will put only three inmates to death in 2021. So much for our hang-‘em-high reputation.

The U.S. Supreme Court raised the stakes in the politically explosive fight over reproductive rights by agreeing to hear arguments on Nov. 1 on a Texas law that has largely shut down legal abortion in the state. The court won’t directly decide if the law -- which bans almost all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy -- violates Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized the procedure nationwide. Nor will the justices be addressing whether to overturn its abortion-rights precedents; that’s an i

The U.S. Supreme Court raised the stakes in the politically explosive fight over reproductive rights by agreeing to hear arguments on Nov. 1 on a Texas law that has largely shut down legal abortion in the state. The court won’t directly decide if the law -- which bans almost all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy -- violates Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized the procedure nationwide. Nor will the justices be addressing whether to overturn its abortion-rights precedents; that’s an i

The memorial service will be held at Washington National Cathedral, a spokeswoman said Thursday.

The memorial service will be held at Washington National Cathedral, a spokeswoman said Thursday.

Most treatments mostly work, most of the time, for most people. But there will always be outliers.

Former President Trump Tuesday derided Gen. Colin Powell in death as a turncoat who “made plenty of mistakes.” Breaking with a near-unanimous chorus of praise for the trailblazing soldier and diplomat, Trump slammed Powell as a “classic RINO,” or Republican in name only, “if even that.” “He was....always the first to attack other Republicans,” Trump said in an email message. “He made plenty of ...

The late Colin Powell credited his massive success to "13 rules" that he outlined in his 2012 memoir, "It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership."

Powell was fully vaccinated but had been treated for a type of blood cancer that can severely compromise the immune system.

Powell, the first Black U.S. secretary of state and trailblazing figure in Washington, died of complications from COVID-19 on Monday, according to a statement from his family. He was 84.

He was the youngest and first African American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, serving under President George H.W. Bush.

He was the youngest and first African American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, serving under President George H.W. Bush.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell gestures as he addresses the Security Council February 14, 2003 at United Nations headquarters in New York City. Colin Powell, the former secretary of State and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has died from Covid complications at the age of 84. "General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19," the Powell family wrote on Facebook. Bush tapped Powell to be the youngest and first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 2001, he became the first Black secretary of State under President George W. Bush.

Robert Gates, the only secretary of defense to serve under presidents from two different parties, offers Anderson Cooper his unique perspective on the threats facing the United States at home and abroad.

If you've been told you're ineligible for public service loan forgiveness, that may no longer be the case. Here's what you need to know and do.

“Catastrophe is in the front room. The weather forecast includes the apocalypse," warned Michael Gerson.

U.S. 'victories' in Iraq are a grim warning for great-power conflict with China

The Biden administration announced major changes to the public service loan forgiveness program, bringing more than 550,000 borrowers closer to relief.

The government program that forgives the student loans of public servants has been plagued by issues. The Biden administration hopes to fix it.

He attacked Obama, Bush, and Clinton "for failing to do something or simply for being 'idiots'" and claimed "success for himself wherever they had failed," Hill wrote.

Lin Wood, one of the lawyers who filed several lawsuits alleging massive election fraud following the 2020 election, claimed Friday there were "no plane fragments found" at the target sites of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Former President George W. Bush took to Instagram Saturday to announce the birth of a new granddaughter.

Cora Georgia Coyne was in Maine, not far from the family’s Walker Point compound in...

Former first daughter Barbara Bush has given birth to her first child, a baby girl. Cora Georgia Coyne was born Monday in Maine, not far from the family’s Walker Point compound in Kennebunkport, former President George W. Bush said in a statement Tuesday. Bush, 39, married screenwriter Craig Coyne at the Maine compound in October 2018.

Biden promises to pass a deficit-neutral plan but he's already in the hole because of the infrastructure bill.