As tensions heat up in the Persian Gulf, the Navy’s minesweeping fleet may once again be called into action, but its sailors say the ships are too old and broken to do the job. “We are essentially the ships that the Navy forgot.”

A MSNBC midday host mused on-air whether former congressman Beto O'Rourke would see a bump in his polls as a result of the media blitz he's experienced in recent days as a result of Saturday's mass shooting in O'Rourke's poll numbers.

The state’s leaders want a federal loan guarantee to build a giant chemical storage plant that could cost as much as $10 billion.

Voters are following politics in ways not witnessed before — three quarters at the highest level on a 0 to 10 ladder scale.

After talks with well-connected lawyers for Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland, senior Justice Department officials in Washington last year told career prosecutors who’d been investigating the banks’ misdeeds to settle for less than they wanted.

The Republican brand of social conservatism is for other people.

A former senior employee questions billings from the law firm of William A. Brewer III, which totalled $24 million in a year.

Two mass shootings within 24 hours over the weekend not only left more than 30 victims dead, but raised real questions whether the nation's political leaders could ever adequately address the crisis of gun violence.

A variety of sources point at least some of the blame for this past weekend's dual mass shootings at Donald Trump and the kind of hateful rhetoric Trump has become known for.

Rep. Will Hurd's retirement announcement this week goes beyond the simple numbers--Hurd is the sixth Republican and the third from Texas to decline to seek re-election next year--the 41-year-old was seen both as a GOP rising star, and was the only black Republican in the House.