It's called the Gang of Eight. On matters of highly sensitive intelligence, eight congressional leaders -- the top two members from each chamber and the Intelligence Committees -- are supposed to ...

Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida made a bold move today, unveiling a 31-page blueprint of the kind of ideas he wants his party to pursue when in it's in the majority. Much of the document reads ...

Rachel Maddow tells the story of the wreck of Shell oil's Kulluk rig and a set of violations that resulted in felony offenses and millions in fines, but now Shell is trying again, and activists are ...

Conditions at Columbia University took a turn overnight as school officials called in the NYPD, which began arresting those protesting the Israel/Hamas war. As events unfolded, Donald Trump apparently ...

Within hours of his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump issued roughly 1,500 pardons and commuted the sentences of 14 Jan. 6 criminals — including violent felons who were in prison for assaulting ...

Rachel Maddow reports on Russian President Vladimir Putin's marathon press conference, the love he enjoys from American conservatives and the dire economic straits he has run his country into.Dec. 19, ...

For some of the president's critics, the push for Donald Trump's tax returns should've happened months ago, but congressional Democrats preferred a far more cautious approach. The House Democratic ...

Rachel Maddow reports on a new effort to ban discrimination against gay people by amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity, and notes that most people don't ...

Donald Trump doesn’t have a detailed plan when it comes to education policy, but the Republican has spent some time in recent months letting voters know about some of his priorities related to schools ...

As the dust starts to settle on some highly significant primaries from recent weeks, it’s apparently time to once again shift our focus to another round of notable and consequential contests. In ...

Rachel Maddow presents the hypothesis that Jeb Bush is bad at the job of campaigning for president and supports the argument with a litany of gaffes, misstatements and missteps that have kept the ...

A couple of years ago, the U.S. Secret Service struggled with a series of damaging controversies, including some important security breakdowns, prompting a congressional investigation and a bipartisan ...