Since December 22, quarter of the US government had been closed due to an impasse between Democratic Party lawmakers and Republican of Trump over funding for wall at the border with Mexico to block illegal immigration.. ..…

Texas controls 38 votes in the Electoral College, a massive haul without which Trump would be unlikely to reach 270 and win a second term. Dependably Republican for decades, Texas nearly elected a Democrat to the U.S. ..…

And because Pelosi controls a Democratic House, she is free to use her institutional powers against Trump in ways that her Republican predecessor, Paul Ryan, never could have, even if he had wanted to. . . . ..…

In the study, researchers at Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program found that states, counties and congressional districts that voted Republican in 2016 and 2018 will greater economic and environmental damages from climate over the coming decades than places that voted Democratic in the past two..…