Within hours of taking office, President Trump declared a national energy emergency as part of his plan to push for more oil and gas drilling and to heavily boost fossil fuels. He also started a ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson fired the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, Ohio congressman Mike Turner. Turner has been a critic at times of President-elect Donald Trump.

PBS' most-watched on-going series, Antiques Road Show, will be stopping by the St. Louis area on May 13. Petrified wood is one of the most sought-after materials in the world for both its aesthetic ...

Democracy is fragile. We saw with our own eyes that January 6, 2021, was not a peaceful demonstration. Direct threats were ...

Peter Yarrow was married to Mary Beth McCarthy, niece of former Democratic presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy.

In an interview with the PBS News Hour, retiring Republican Congressman Patrick McHenry (N.C.), who was briefly acting Speaker of the House during the overthrow of Kevin McCarthy, was asked about ...

In the post, Trump called Johnson "a fine man of great ability." The drama on the first day of the new Congress echoed the dynamic two years ago when Kevin McCarthy faced opposition from a group of ...

The drama on the first day of the new Congress echoed the dynamic two years ago when Kevin McCarthy faced opposition from a group of conservatives to be elected speaker. After failing to get the ...

Congress has been here before, when it took Republicans nearly a week and 15 rounds of voting to elect Kevin McCarthy as speaker in 2023, a spectacle unseen in modern times. McCarthy was then dumped ...

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing ...

In fact, Cheney’s behavior as the GOP ranking member of the January 6th Committee was, if anything, reminiscent of the days in the 1950’s when Wisconsin Republican Senator Joe McCarthy was ...

WASHINGTON — Former Long Island Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, who served in the House for 18 years, was honored Thursday at the White House with the Presidential Citizens Medal. McCarthy's ...