A diverse ticket

PAC plans new effort to put a black candidate on the 2020 Democratic ticket

Elections

'Our energy future'

McConnell’s opposition to Green New Deal comes as he backs coal

Congress

Election Board to finally decide fate of NC-09 race next week

Midterms

Cruz pushes for stiffer gold penalties against Venezuela’s Maduro

Latin America

Congressional Democrats bring fight to restore Voting Rights Act to NC

Congress

Mel Watt misused federal post, tried to ‘coerce’ worker into relationship, report says

National

Hawley fights subpoena: ‘The judicial process does not exist to harass public servants’

Congress

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell can’t get GOP support for a Venezuela humanitarian aid plan

Latin America

Venezuela’s opposition acts like a government and makes plea for money

White House

On offshore drilling, Sanford and Cunningham find legacies linked

Congress

2020 Democrats vote against deal to keep government open

Congress

‘This is a stupid way to do business,’ Josh Hawley attacks border bill

Congress

How Parkland parents and lawmakers built relationships to help prevent school violence

Politics & Government

Democrats demand detailed plans for defeating Trump in 2020

Campaigns

Challenger wanted

Mitch McConnell is a 2020 target but Democrats don't yet have anyone to take him on

Congress

Trump’s foreign policy is pushing allies into China and Russia’s waiting arms

By Markos Kounalakis

Opinion

President Trump’s not-so-carefully considered decisions have consequences

By Andrew Malcolm

Opinion

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