In Congress, Path Clearing For Obama Plan To Aid Syrian Rebels Fighting Islamic State

University of Florida President Ben Sasse tells CNN's Jake Tapper that "we just don't negotiate with people who scream the loudest" amid protests over the Israel-Hamas war on campus.

Potential Trump VP contender Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota joins CNN's Jake Tapper after joining Donald Trump for an event at Mar-a-Lago amid potential vice presidential speculation.

The Colorado legislature is returning Sunday during the final weekend of work in its 2024 session, set to end Wednesday. Among major pieces of legislation still pending are gun regulations, housing, land-use policy, transportation, property tax reform and other priorities. This story will be updated throughout the day. Updated at 11:14 a.m.: In a pair of late-night votes Saturday, the Colorado Senate advanced two land-use reform bills, inching them just a few steps away from Gov.

As the November election approaches, several of Donald Trump’s vice presidential contenders have taken part in what seems to have become an unofficial loyalty test: question the legitimacy of an election that does not end with Trump winning. On Sunday morning, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)—who NBC News reported in February was the leading candidate for the VP job—showed why he may be Trump’s favored candidate: he refused no less than six times to answer whether or not he would accept the results of November’s election no matter the outcome.

For the second year in a row, the sounds of Cinco de Mayo echoed into the Capitol as lawmakers toiled on a Saturday to find common ground on proposed reforms to state land use and property tax policy. The 120-day legislative session ends Wednesday, and lawmakers are still wrestling with some of the marquee proposals of the session, though with some breakthroughs on issues that had threatened to chew up valuable time — while other potential hot spots emerged. The Senate passed Saturday a significantly narrowed ban on minimum parking requirements, one of the proposed land use reforms that emerged from the failure of last year’s omnibus proposal.

Do the gay bars and bathhouses need to move to the countryside?