Housing the homeless, employing the unemployed shouldn’t require a Republican

That statement is a core Republican tenet - you would even get Susan Collins and Donald Trump to agree on it. And when Democrats want to be uncharitable, they claim that catchy line is a mere smokescreen for the GOP's opposition towell, whatever group they want to accuse Republicans of standing against.

Republicans worry a falling Trump tide will lower all boats

Donald Trump's struggling candidacy has become a direct threat to Republican control of Congress, significantly increasing the likelihood that Democrats will take control of the Senate and cut substantially into the House Republican majority next year. Trump's string of inflammatory statements in the weeks since his nominating convention last month has sent him tumbling in nearly every state with a contested Senate race, raising Republican fears that their own demoralized voters will not show up to vote, independents will abandon the entire Republican ticket and energized Democrats will flock to the polls.

Taking on Ted

U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, is not ruling out challenging U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in 2018, but he's emphasizing that he is not focused on it for now. "Like Reagan said, never say never, but it's not something I'm spending a whole lot of time thinking about right now," McCaul told reporters Wednesday in Austin.

Naked Trump statues erected in sites around US

A naked statue of Donald Trump, complete with bulging belly and elaborate yellow hair, caused laughter and merriment in New York on Thursday until it was demolished by park wardens. Hands clasped across ample belly, the sculpture was unveiled in Union Square, gazing out across a busy street with an engraved plaque reading "The Emperor Has No Balls", witnesses said.

U.S. voters skeptical about either Trump or Clinton presidency

Confidence in either U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump or his Democratic counterpart Hillary Clinton being a good president continues to remain low, as was the case earlier this year, a Pew Research Center poll said on Thursday. Just 27 percent of registered voters think Trump would make a good or great president, while 55 percent say the bellicose New York billionaire developer would be either poor or terrible president.

Trump: Sometimes you say the wrong thing

Donald Trump, in a remarkable break with his characteristically unapologetic style, acknowledged Thursday that he has sometimes said "the wrong thing" and said he regretted some of his controversial statements. "Sometimes, in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don't choose the right words or you say the wrong thing.

Clinton widens lead over Trump in poll of NY voters Updated Aug 15, 2016 at

Hillary Clinton holds a giant lead over Donald Trump among New York voters in a Siena College poll released Monday, beating him by 30 percentage points in a two-way matchup and by 25 points when Libertarian and Green Party candidates for president were included in the choices.

The Brief: A New Look at the Cost of Detaining Asylum Seekers

Protestors left their signs on the fence surrounding the South Texas Family Residential Center near Dilley, Texas on May 2, 2015. A new Washington Post report takes a close look at the $1 billion contract given to the nation's largest prison company by the federal government to build a facility in the South Texas town of Dilley to detain women and children seeking asylum.

Trump, and Changing Demographics, Are Helping Turn North Carolina Blue

Over the past three election cycles, Republicans in North Carolina won the governor's mansion, ousted Democratic Senator Kay Hagan, and built a veto-proof supermajority in the state legislature. But with Donald Trump imperiling down ballot candidates and population demographics in the state undergoing a shift, those gains could soon be reversed.

Trump goes on tear against media, not Clinton

Donald Trump's campaign on Sunday went on a new tear against the media, blaming the "disgusting" press for a week of distractions at a time when Republicans have urged him - again - to focus on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Trump will get another chance to reset his campaign on Monday when he is expected to lay out his plan for defeating what running mate Mike Pence on Sunday called, "radical Islamic terrorism" with "real specifics" on how to make the United States safer.

Marco Rubio tells Florida Christians to show more compassion toward the gay community

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio spoke about the perils of being intolerant toward the gay community at a Christian conference Friday 'Abandoning judgment and loving our LGBT neighbors is not a betrayal of what the Bible teaches, it is the fulfillment of it,' Rubio preached The former presidential candidate decided to run for re-election in the Senate in the aftermath of the Orlando gay nightclub mass shooting While maintaining his position against same-sex marriage, Sen. Marco Rubio used a speech before a group of Christians to speak of the perils of intolerance toward the gay community.

This chart shows how quickly college tuition has skyrocketed…

Student-loan debt in the US has grown to a staggering $1.3 trillion , and many policymakers refer to the seemingly inexorable levels of mounting debt as a crisis. Some, like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, have suggested plans to provide college for free or at least, minimal cost.

Sen. Schumer Urges Support For Crackdown Ona

Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for a federal crackdown on ticket scalpers using computer programs to jack up the prices of popular Broadway shows, concerts and sporting events, urging support for legislation he introduced to restrict them. The New York Democrat, citing support from Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of Broadway's "Hamilton," says cyber scalpers have been using the programs, known as "bots," to buy and resell tickets to that play anywhere from $500 to more than $2,000 a ticket.