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“Another one bites the dust,” goes the popular Queen song, which might have been written for this week’s news in Trumpworld.

With the departures of Sen. Thom Tillis and Rep. Don Bacon, the president has further rid the Republican Party of dissent.

The looming departures of Sen. Thom Tillis and Rep. Don Bacon are another sign of President Donald Trump's firm grip on the ...

President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislative package is expected to have sweeping impacts on higher education.

President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, is considering running for Senate in North Carolina following Sen. Thom ...

Republican Rep. Addison McDowell of Bermuda Run said on X: “I just voted to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill, just in time for ...

Though patients don’t rush through the doors of this emergency room anymore, an empty hospital in Williamston, North Carolina, offers an evocative illustration of why Republican Sen. Thom Tillis would ...

In the president’s eagerness to score a win and extend tax cuts, he walked away from a key campaign promise on Medicaid. The ...

President Donald Trump skipped a trip to his golf course last weekend, staying in Washington to lobby members of Congress to ...

Here are the five Republicans who voted against Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” Massie drew Trump’s wrath over his opposition ...