Donald Trump Clashes With Arizona GOP Senator in Closed-Door Meeting

The spat, first reported by the Washington Post, began when Trump remarked that Flake had been critical of him in the past. "Yes, I'm the other senator from Arizona - the one that wasn't captured - and I want to talk to you about statements like that," Flake told Trump in the closed-door meeting, the senator confirmed to ABC News.

Republican senator from a GOP stronghold says that Donald Trump might lose in his state

Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona said on Wednesday that it was "quite possible" that Donald Trump would lose his state after a series of polls showed the race between the presumptive GOP presidential nominee and Hillary Clinton as either extremely close or in the former secretary of state's favor. But Flake, in an interview with Business Insider, said he did not expect the presidential race to affect fellow Sen. John McCain's efforts at reelection in the traditionally deep-red state.

Senate blocks gun measures offered in wake of Orlando massacre Read Story USA Today

The Senate as expected on Monday rejected four partisan gun measures offered in the wake of the Orlando massacre, including proposals to keep guns out of the hands of people on terror watch lists. Two Republican proposals would have increased funding for the national background check system and created a judicial review process to keep a person on a terror watch list from buying a gun; two Democratic measures would have expanded background checks to private gun sales and allowed the Justice Department to ban gun sales to suspected terrorists.

Collins hopes for compromise in new gun control bill

Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins is working with a bipartisan group of senators on an alternative bill that she hopes will break the partisan gridlock in Congress over gun control. Her proposal, coming in the wake of the horrific massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando by a gunman pledging allegiance to ISIS, would bar gun sales to those on the government's no-fly list.

Unlikely Path for Foes Hoping to Dump Trump at Convention

It's exceedingly improbable, but not completely farfetched: Dismayed Republicans could still dump Donald Trump and find a different presidential nominee at their national convention next month. Once viewed as a political joke, the blunt-spoken billionaire has stormed to the cusp of becoming the GOP nominee.

The DoD spent $170k on a study about why walking with coffee makes it spill

America's Department of Defense does. According to a recent report from U.S. Senator Jeff Flake , the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency allocated a $172,283 grant to fund a study conducted in 2012 at University of California at Santa Barbara that investigated why coffee spills while you walk.