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Twelve years since the United States invaded Iraq, the war remains a quagmire for Republicans who have an eye on the presidency.

Following former Gov. Jeb Bush’s remarks — which he later tried to clarify and play down — that he would have authorized the same war that his brother, President George W. Bush, waged to topple Saddam Hussein, other White House hopefuls in his party in the

US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland was directed by President Donald Trump to work with Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine, he plans to tell Congress Thursday, and was left with a choice: Abandon efforts to bolster a key strategic alliance or work to satisfy the demands of the President's personal lawyer.

Sondland plans to say he wasn't aware until "much later" that Giuliani's

The Washington Post's Monkey Cage gives Republicans an 82 percent chance of taking the Senate. The New York Times' Upshot gives them a 54 percent chance. Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight is also projecting that Republicans will win the Senate.

Republicans are likely to take the Senate in 2014. The question is: what happens next? Republicans already control the House. And Vox forecasts that

The impeachment trial of President Trump drew closer toward its almost-inevitable conclusion with closing arguments Monday, as Democratic House impeachment managers made a last-ditch push to convince the Senate that an acquittal would be a "death blow" to the ability to hold a president in check, while Trump’s defense team accused the Democrats of engaging in a rushed, partisan, unjustified