Kelly Ayotte

WASHINGTON -- Apple CEO Tim Cook defended the company's tax avoidance strategies in an appearance Tuesday before the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.  Wearing a business suit, white shirt and powder blue tie, Cook read an...

Sen. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) hasn't given up on his bill to expand background checks for gun purchases, he said Thursday, signaling more willingness to return to the plan than he had publicly shown before. "If we could find a way to bring some more folks...

WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) pressed Sunday for a special congressional committee to investigate the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, last year, insisting that questions about former Secretary of State...

Some Granite State conservatives were quick to condemn the idea that the nation's tax collector is going after political organizations based on ideological leanings. The former chairman of the state Republican Party said he is appalled at reports that...

WASHINGTON — First came the letter-writing campaigns, then the protests at town hall meetings and now the television ads. The last several weeks in New Hampshire have had the feel of a heated electoral season — but the target of this siege,...

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, repeated her call Sunday for a full-scale investigation by a select congressional panel into the Obama administration's actions before, during and after the attack on the U.S compound in Benghazi, Libya last October. Appearing...

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The Benghazi attack will be the main topic this weekend on Sunday morning chat programs. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., talk to NBC's "Meet the Press" at 9 a.m. on WESH-Channel 2. They will discuss whether there was...

Usually when a senator suffers a big public defeat, he slinks off to lick his wounds. He rarely retwists the arms that didn't bend his way. Colleagues don't like to be seen switching. Were they horribly mistaken the first time? Don't know what they...

Sen. Claire McCaskill stepped up her drive to curb sexual assaults in the military on Tuesday, a day in which the Pentagon admitted to a worsening problem and President Barack Obama threatened attackers with dishonorable discharge. The Missouri senator'...

Gabrielle Giffords received a Profile in Courage award this weekend at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. The award is fitting, though she is displaying a different kind of courage than was celebrated by the late president in his 1957 best-selling...

Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire was the only senator from the Northeast to vote against the bill that would have required universal background checks on gun purchases, something nearly all Americans support. Gun safety supporters have...