Carolyn McCarthy, a fierce proponent of gun control who represented parts of Long Island in Congress for nearly 20 years, has ...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy pumped the brakes Wednesday on hopes that a bipartisan Senate spending deal would be enough to prevent a government shutdown in three days, bluntly telling reporters ...

The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy” and “Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon.” It’s laudable when ...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) on Wednesday urged Senate Republicans to have faith in his ability to manage the new House Republican majority next year and not feel compelled to ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is ramping up the pressure on Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to avoid a government shutdown by moving first on a stopgap funding bill that will ...

As House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy forges ahead in his quest to secure 218 votes to be the next speaker of the House, he is vowing to take a hard line in the future against any GOP senator who ...

McCarthy was well aware of that but was hoping House passage would be a show of strength that would force a response from the Senate and potentially shift responsibility for a shutdown across the ...

Joe McCarthy ambitiously drove into the national scene when he was elected a U.S. Senator in 1946. He had been a good light-heavyweight boxer in college (Marquette ’35), never walked away from a ...

McCarthy’s protégé, the imperious attorney Roy Cohn, 30 years later became Donald Trump’s mentor, channeling the senator’s adversarial playbook to the eventual president.

WilmerHale, headquartered in Boston and D.C., notes in its complaint that a lawyer from predecessor firm Hale and Dorr is credited with bringing down then-Senator Joseph McCarthy’s fear ...