Republican state senators in Oregon filed a lawsuit against Democrats in a Marion County court on Wednesday, seeking to block the Democratic legislators from passing a controversial bill relating to abortion. In the lawsuit (pdf), state Sen. Suzanne Weber and state Rep. Emily McIntire, both Republicans, joined the pro-life advocacy group Oregon Right To Life to…

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) has called for cognitive tests for older leaders in all three branches of the American government. Cassidy, also a physician, expressed his support for the testing during an “Axios on HBO” interview that aired Sunday on the network. “I’m told that there have been senators in the past who, at the end…

WASHINGTON— China, the second largest economy in the world has been exploiting the World Bank by receiving low-cost loans meant for poor nations, and it is time to stop this practice, say a group of prominent China critics in U.S. Congress. The Chinese economy has grown rapidly over the past four decades ,yet the World…

WASHINGTON— China, the world’s second-largest economy, has been exploiting the World Bank by receiving low-cost loans meant for poor nations, and it’s time to stop this practice, a group of prominent China critics in the U.S. Congress say. The Chinese economy has grown rapidly over the past four decades, yet the World Bank still considers…