News & Observer readers comment on the GOP’s platform, columnist Gene Nichol, Pete Hegseth, Helene victims, Trump’s pardon, ...

The vice president acknowledged that President Donald Trump's more controversial Cabinet nominees face tight votes but ...

The framers of the Constitution imagined Congress as the preeminent branch of government. But many Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill seem content to play second fiddle.

Sen. Bill Cassidy’s (R-LA) fight for his political future has already arrived at his doorstep. His reservations about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. running the Department of Health and Human Services over the ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth narrowly secured his nomination to President Donald Trump 's cabinet, nudged into the role by the tiebreaking vote of Vice President JD Vance after a handful of ...

But even though it was expected, some things are just too hard to believe. There are the prodigiously unqualified and outright dangerous appointees to highly consequential positions … sure, Pete ...

Senator John Curtis prides himself on collaborating with people who disagree with him. But with a Republican trifecta in ...

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.