WASHINGTON (AP) — All but five Senate Republicans voted in favor of an effort to dismiss Donald Trump's historic second impeachment trial on Tuesday, making clear a conviction of the former president for “incitement of insurrection” after the deadly Capitol siege on Jan. 6 is unlikely.
The Senate has rejected a Republican attempt to dismiss Donald Trump's historic second impeachment trial, allowing the case to move forward but also foreshadowing that there may not be enough votes to convict him.
Pete Snyder, an entrepreneur from Charlottesville, on Tuesday formally launched his campaign for governor, seeking the GOP nomination by presenting himself as a “political outsider.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Monday approved President Joe Biden’s nomination of Janet Yellen to be the nation’s 78th treasury secretary, making her the first woman to hold the job in the department's 232-year history.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is confronting the political risk that comes with grand ambition.
Winsome Sears, who in 2001 became the first Black Republican woman elected to the General Assembly, formally launched her GOP bid for lieutenant governor Thursday, saying she is running because “we’ve got to have adults making decisions.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Janet Yellen, President-elect Joe Biden's choice as Treasury secretary, said Tuesday that the incoming administration would focus on winning quick passage of its $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan, rejecting Republican arguments that the measure is too big given the size of U.S. budget deficits.
The Senate Finance Committee has begun its confirmation hearing for Treasury Secretary-nominee Janet Yellen with Democrats and Republicans squ…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Containing the coronavirus outbreak and repairing the economic damage it has inflicted are the top priorities for Americans as Joe Biden prepares to become the 46th president of the United States, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
President-elect Joe Biden will take office Wednesday with high expectations and largely positive reviews of how he has handled the transition,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The lead prosecutor for President Donald Trump's historic second impeachment began building his case for conviction at trial, asserting on Sunday that Trump's incitement of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol was “the most dangerous crime" ever committed by a president against the United States. A Senate trial could begin as soon as this week, just as Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president.
One of the managers House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tapped to argue the case for President Donald Trump's impeachment was not allowed in Wednes…
BALTIMORE (AP) — The $1.9 trillion rescue plan unveiled by President-elect Joe Biden offers the chance to sculpt the U.S. economy toward the Democrats’ liking: a $15 minimum wage, aid to poor families and federal dollars going to public schools.
Unified control of the government by one party almost invariably drives the two sides apart. Recent events — hard-won passage of a $900 billio…
Before the November election, pressure had been mounting from the Democratic left to eliminate the filibuster, leading Republicans to charge t…
Washington has barely had time to process the implications of Democratic control after two Georgia runoff elections that are delivering the Se…
For the first time in history, the president of the United States is facing a second impeachment. Following the riots on the Capitol, the House passed a charge of "incitement of insurrection." A look at this unprecedented event and some surprising support from Republicans.
The four Republicans representing Virginia in the House of Representatives, two from the Roanoke Valley, voted against the second impeachment of President Donald Trump.
Virginia's House speaker removed Del. Ronnie Campbell from Courts of Justice, Del. David LaRock from Transportation and Del. Mark Cole from Privileges and Elections.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pointedly did not rule out that he might eventually vote to convict the now twice-impeached President Donald Trump, but he also blocked a quick Senate impeachment trial.
The unbreakable wall of Republican support that encouraged and enabled Donald Trump's norm-shattering presidency cracked on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump has become the first American president to be impeached twice, facing a strong bipartisan rebuke from the House exactly…
Donald Trump was impeached for a second time Wednesday, just a week after he encouraged loyalists to “fight like hell” against election results and then a mob of supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. The House voted 232-197, with 10 Republicans joining Democrats to rebuke the president.
If the House impeaches President Donald Trump, a Senate trial on whether to convict him of inciting insurrection seems all but certain to have to wait until President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated.
As a citizen, parent and grandparent of students in the Culpeper County Public Schools, I am concerned about the politicizing of the School Bo…
