Nash Jenkins

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A Look at John McCain’s Life of Service in Photos

If one is interested in brevity, it is an extreme challenge to find the words that encapsulate the political career of John McCain, who died Saturday at the age of 81.A former war hero, a...

By Kim Bubello and Nash Jenkins

White Supremacists Outnumbered

The several dozen white supremacists who showed up outside the White House on Sunday to mark the one-year anniversary of their movement’s violent gathering in Charlottesville, Va., were overwhelmingly outnumbered by thousands of counter-protesters.For the...

By Nash Jenkins / Washington, D.C.

Ivanka Trump Says Family Separation Was a Low Point

President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump said on Thursday that the separation of immigrant families at the border was “a low point.”“That was a low point for me as well,” the 36-year-old Trump, who serves...

By Nash Jenkins

Swedish Student Who Temporarily Stopped Man's Deportation Speaks Out

“I hope that people start questioning how their country treats refugees"

By Nash Jenkins

Justice Department Says Undocumented Immigrants Should Be Called 'Illegal Aliens'

"The word 'undocumented' is not based in US code and should not be used to describe someone's illegal presence in the country"

By Nash Jenkins

Pompeo Dodges Tough Questions on Russia In Senate Hearing

'This is President Trump's administration. He's fully in charge of this'

By Nash Jenkins

3 Moments That Actually Mattered at the Peter Strzok Hearing

Beneath the partisan posturing and fiery monologues, a House hearing Thursday on FBI agent Peter Strzok’s conduct delved into some key factual questions.In a hearing jointly conducted by the Oversight and Judiciary committees, Republican lawmakers...

By Alana Abramson , Nash Jenkins , Abby Vesoulis and Abigail Simon

Here's What the Key Senators Think About Brett Kavanaugh Right Now

Senators who could cast the deciding votes on the fate of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh gave little indication of where their heads were on the matter on Tuesday, hours after President Donald Trump announced...

By Nash Jenkins

Scott Pruitt Has Resigned As Head of the Environmental Protection Agency

Pruitt's tenure as the administrator of the EPA has been besieged by controversies

By Nash Jenkins and Alana Abramson

Democrats Target Collins and Murkowski on Supreme Court Vote

"If we do a good enough job, we'll make it obvious enough that Collins or Murkowski will be the deciding vote on whether Roe v. Wade is overturned"

By Nash Jenkins

President Trump Again Calls for Stripping Migrants at the Border of Due Process

"They must leave, just as they would if they were standing on your front lawn"

By Nash Jenkins

What We Know About Trump's Summit With Putin

They are set to meet in July to discuss a "broad range" of issues

By Nash Jenkins

Remembering Conservative Thinker Charles Krauthammer, 68

If William F. Buckley Jr. was the monarch of 20th century American conservatism, then Charles Krauthammer, who died of cancer on June 21 at age 68, was its best general: an intellectual hurricane who could...

By Nash Jenkins

How Democrats in Congress Responded to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Surprise Win

By all accounts, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s upset of a 10-term Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday night was a stunner. The 28-year-old former bartender — a democratic socialist who ran on a platform of universal health care, ending...

By Nash Jenkins

GOP Cheers Travel Ban Decision

'Federal law is clear and explicit'

By Nash Jenkins

Rough Week for the GOP

It’s difficult to overstate how badly this week has gone for Republicans in Congress.As they head into an already difficult midterm election cycle, GOP lawmakers have found themselves playing defense on an issue that bitterly...

By Nash Jenkins

Congress Grasps for Border Crisis Fix

It was unclear to many what Trump wanted the GOP to do to end family separations

By Philip Elliott and Nash Jenkins

President Trump Is Making It Harder for Congress to Stop Family Separations

Congress scrambled Tuesday to find a way to end a Trump Administration policy that splits young children from their parents along the U.S.-Mexican border and dodge a new demand from the president for a $25...

By Philip Elliott and Nash Jenkins

The House Will Vote on Bills to Protect Dreamers. No One Knows What Happens Next

The House of Representatives is moving closer to holding a vote on legislation to protect undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, but there’s still no clear path to reach the desk of President...

By Nash Jenkins

Lawmakers Are Hesitant to Judge the North Korea Summit Yet

The White House has extolled President Donald Trump’s Singapore meeting with Korean leader Kim Jong Un as the “historic” opening of a new chapter in diplomacy. Eight thousand miles away, lawmakers on Capitol Hill were...

By Nash Jenkins
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