Congressional District 8 voters, ignore your ballot’s…

A set of instructions sent to voters in the special primary election to replace U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., could cause confusion. The Republic's politics teams talks Don Shooter's claims of being privately investigated, a new and controversial abortion bill, and Steve Montenegro's legal path to citizenship on Feb. 13, 2018.

Romney, favored in Senate bid, could take on outsized role

Mitt Romney's extensive resume has many Republicans looking to him to take on a role in the Senate as a political and moral counterweight to a president many in the GOP see as divisive and undignified. The 2012 GOP nominee for president announced Friday he is running for the Utah Senate seat being vacated by GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch.

In 1930, he discovered photographic evidence of this former planet

On Feb. 18, 1678, the first part of "The Pilgrim's Progress," a Christian allegory by English author John Bunyan, was published in London. In 1930, photographic evidence of Pluto, now designated a "dwarf planet," was discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Senate Rejects Grassley Immigration Bill Which Mirrors Trump’s Immigration Framework

In a vote of 39-60, the Senate on Thursday rejected an immigration reform proposal by Sen. Chuck Grassley which was based on President Donald Trump's immigration reform framework. The measure was one of four that was rejected by the Senate, including two bipartisan bills - one by Sens. John McCain and Chris Coons and another by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sens. Mike Rounds , and Susan Collins that were criticized by the Department of Homeland Security.

Bipartisan immigration pact among several Senate proposals

A group of senators reached a bipartisan agreement aimed at balancing Democrats' fight to offer citizenship to young "Dreamer" immigrants with President Donald Trump's demands for billions to build his coveted border wall with Mexico. Though the compromise was announced Wednesday by 16 senators with centrist views on the issue and was winning support from many Democrats, it faced an uncertain fate.

Used to scuffles, Rand Paul takes on Senate, risks shutdown

The last time Sen. Rand Paul was in the news for a scuffle, it involved a neighbor who allegedly tackled him in his yard over a lawn dispute. Thursday night, the Kentucky Republican took on the entire U.S. Senate - and rather than fisticuffs, his weapons of choice were obstinacy and the chamber's weird rules.

Military leaders want Congress to approve budget deal

The Pentagon says it should be able to get more planes into the air, more ships on the seas and more equipment to troops in the field if Congress approves the major budget agreement struck by Senate leaders on Wednesday. Military leaders have said they're confronting a readiness crisis, punctuated by a series of deadly accidents, that they attributed to funding shortages stemming from the "sequester" budget cuts earlier this decade.

Congress grapples with immigration, averting funding fight

Legislation to help young "Dreamer" immigrants struggled to gain footing in the U.S. Congress on Monday, as lawmakers prepared to hold a Tuesday vote on a short-term government funding measure to avoid a rerun of January's three-day partial shutdown. Republicans in the House of Representatives were told at a Monday night meeting that the stop-gap measure would extend funding through March 23, along with a year of defense funding and two years of funding for community health centers, lawmakers said.

Bipartisan immigration bill surfaces, Trump knocks it down

A bipartisan immigration proposal has surfaced in the Senate, only to be quickly knocked down by President Donald Trump via Twitter on Monday. Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Chris Coons planned to propose legislation Monday that would shield from deportation immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally as children, known as "Dreamers" helped by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.

Senators McCAIN & Coons to Introduce Bipartisan Immigration Compromise

U.S. Senators John McCain and Chris Coons will introduce legislation today to address two pressing issues , providing a path to resolve these important immigration issues and allowing Congress to devote full attention to finalizing a budget deal that fully funds the military. The legislation is a Senate companion bill to the Uniting and Securing America Act , bipartisan legislation introduced by Representatives Will Hurd and Pete Aguilar to protect Dreamers from deportation and provide a pathway to citizenship while implementing new border security measures.

Trump’s fight with his law enforcement agencies intensifies

Trump on Saturday falsely claimed that the memo "totally vindicates" him in special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing probe into whether his campaign colluded with Russia. House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, the California Republican whose committee drafted the memo, promised Friday on Fox News that more memos critical of US government agencies are coming.