As the Trump administration makes good on its promise to arrest and deport hundreds of people in the country illegally, Kentucky’s junior senator is offering a solution for those who haven’t committed ...

JD Vance, who is set to be sworn in as vice president in one week, made a visit to Breathitt County on Monday to pay his respects to family buried in a cemetery there. “Five generations of my family ...

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It’s the Monday morning after the second attempt on Donald Trump’s life and Scott Jennings is seated inside a climate-controlled CNN studio on the west side of Manhattan ready to stand as a vessel for ...

U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie always thought a government funding vote this week was a fairy tale. It looks like he was right. Now GOP leaders are scrambling for fairy dust to figure out this tale’s ending.

Rep. Thomas Massie is calling a super PAC advertising campaign blistering him as an “anti-Israel radical” a comical waste of political expenditures. “I’m laughing because it has the same effect as ...

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul formed a noisy alliance with Rep. Thomas Massie this week that scrambled Congress’ plans to renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act without additional privacy ...

Rand Paul was the lone Republican senator to support a resolution by Sen. Bernie Sanders to direct the State Department to issue a report to Congress on Israel’s human rights record. The resolution, ...

Conservatives are conveying anger with northern Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie over his vote to oppose a resolution censuring California Rep. Adam Schiff, a favorite boogeyman of Republicans. Massie ...

The U.S. House passed legislation late Wednesday that will raise the nation’s debt ceiling for two years and avoid immediate default – but perhaps the most consequential moment of the weeks-long saga ...

The entirety of Kentucky’s Republican House delegation voted to increase the nation’s debt limit, lending its cohesive support to narrowly pass a deal Wednesday evening that will all likely die in the ...

As early as 2020, Democrats in Pennsylvania were billing the expected U.S. Senate primary between Conor Lamb and John Fetterman as an epic clash between two titans: the clean-cut moderate “beauty” ...