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On Friday, the Trump administration asked Obama’s pro-gun control Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, to resign.

The latest poll from Emerson College shows Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by only six points in Illinois, where Barack Obama won by over 16 points against Mitt Romney in 2012. Emerson has the race at Clinton 45%, Trump 39% in

On August 22 Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly praised Senators Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) for caving on gun control. Giffords and Kelly subsequently announced that their gun control group–Americans for Responsible Solutions–is endorsing Toomey and Kirk in the November elections.

Trump-resistant and election battling Republicans including two former Presidents, two former Republican nominees, and several former 2016 presidential hopefuls are offering up excuses for why they will not attend the Republican National Convention in Cleveland next week, notably among them a break with a history of former Presidents attending their party’s convention.

The Obama administration is reportedly considering more concessions to Iran, possibly including the Treasury Department issuing a license that would “permit offshore financial institutions to access dollars for foreign currency trades in support of legitimate business with Iran, a practice that is currently illegal,” as the Associated Press describes it.

Friday on “The Big John Howell Show” on WLS-AM in Chicago, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) weighed in on the polical battle brewing over President Barack Obama’s nomination, Judge Merrick Garland, to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by

Several more GOP senators say they are willing to meet with President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court seat left open by the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

Tuesday on his radio show, conservative talker and Fox News host Sean Hannity emphasized the importance of Republicans standing up to President Barack Obama on filling the Supreme Court vacancy previously held by the late Antonin Scalia. Hannity argued based

Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who is running for Mark Kirk’s U.S. Senate seat, is suddenly speaking out about Syrian refugees, after doing and saying nothing for years.

French officials joined the United States Thursday in condemning illegal ballistic missile tests that the Islamic Republic of Iran carried out over the weekend.

The pending Republican move to defund Planned Parenthood will depend on four GOP Senators who are facing tough swing-state elections in 2016, and who must decide whether to alienate feminist or pro-life groups.

Republicans are championing a new bill that will force Iran to compensate American victims of Iranian terror before it can use any sanctions relief funds it receives from the Iran deal.

Though the Republican Party claims to be the “pro-life” party, Politico reported Kirk, Collins, and Murkowski slithered up to pro-abortion Democrats to approve an amendment to the State Department appropriations bill that would permanently lift the restriction on funding organizations that provide abortions – one that President Ronald Reagan’s administration put in place.

In audio captured by ABC News on Thursday, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) apparently called his colleague Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) a “bro with no ho” during a live mic moment. Kirk later said he regretted the remarks, but declined to

Obama’s nominee to replace Eric Holder as Attorney General has been met with one of the most contentious confirmation proceedings America has seen for the position, and now Senate Conservatives Fund President Ken Cuccinelli is calling out the GOP Senators and political gamesmanship enabling the controversial impending confirmation of U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch. The Senate vote has been set for Thursday.

Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) declared “stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons is the greatest challenge to peace in our time. After the Holocaust we promised ‘never again’” during Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address. Transcript (via ABC News Radio) as Follows: “Hello I’m

The sanctions on Iran have not technically been removed – in fact, we learned today that even the timing of their removal under the Lausanne framework is a matter of great dispute between Iran’s Supreme Leader and the Obama Administration. But Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) is already talking about passing a bill to keep them in place, effectively killing whatever remains of Obama’s deal.

A war of words–and fundraising emails–has erupted between Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) over the Iran deal. The fight began when Schakowsky objected to Kirk’s remark to Politico that “Neville Chamberlain got a lot of more out of Hitler than [U.S. negotiator] Wendy Sherman got out of Iran.” Schakowsky said it was “appalling” for Kirk to “equate the Obama administration’s diplomacy with Nazi appeasement.” Kirk then used her attack in a fundraising email.

Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) says he will support President Obama’s attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch.

Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) will reportedly cave to President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty and will support U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch for Attorney General, several media outlets are reporting.

Only days after a high-profile Democrat opponent announced a run to take his seat, Illinois Republican Senator Mark Kirk is coming out swinging. Not against his opponent, but against fellow Republican Mike Pence for signing Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Embattled Republican Congressman Aaron Schock and four other Illinois Republicans are again making the call for “comprehensive” immigration reform saying that an amnesty-like “path to citizenship” is the only way forward.

Feinstein’s move is largely seen as an extension of President Obama’s belief that Iran’s nuclear program is being used solely for “peaceful purposes” and the approach of diplomacy to negotiate a resolute end.

On December 15, Obama’s anti-gun Surgeon General nominee Vivek Murthy needed 51 votes to be confirmed. He reached 51 because one Republican–Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL)–joined Democrats to confirm him.  Breitbart News previously reported that Murthy’s “political activism” was even too much for

After Senate Democrats confirmed Obama’s Surgeon General nominee Vivek Murthy by a 51-43 vote on December 15, the Los Angeles Times reminded readers that Murthy believes “guns are a healthcare issue.” The newspaper also reminded readers that Murthy supports a

Illinois GOP Senator Mark Kirk was welcomed last night by a standing ovation from a crowd of nearly 300 members of Chicago’s pro-Israel community gathered for the “Campus Champion Gala,” a project of the Israel advocacy group StandWithUs. Kirk, who suffered a

Jack Treese, 68, passed away on Oct 1, 2014 in Santa Rosa Valley. After battling lung cancer for six months, Jack passed peacefully, surrounded by his family.  Jack was born on October 5, 1945 and grew up in Titusville, Florida.

Monday at competing Israel and Palestine protests in Chicago, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) told Chicago Fox affiliate WFLD 32 “Hamas is like Nazis.” Kirk said, “The more Nazis you got, the more Hamas you get, the more death you get.”

Chicago–Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) did not mince words on Monday, telling a crowd of nearly 2,000 supporters of Israel that “we should not have a cease fire until Hamas is militarily defeated by the IDF.” Sen. Kirk, who served as

At a Senate intelligence briefing given by the White House’s Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken, members watched a “proof of life” video made by Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s Taliban captors late last year. According to Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) Kirk,

The US Congress is examining the process required to cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority following  the PA announcement of its intention to form a unity government with Hamas, reports The Jerusalem Post. A subcommittee on the Middle East

President Obama should warn the Palestinian Authority that their new pact with Hamas has put their foreign aid in danger of being revoked, Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) urged in a new letter today. The Senators criticized

Republican Senators Mark Kirk (IL) and Dan Coats (IN) sent a letter to FIFA’s chairman Sepp Blatter and demanded the soccer organization ban Russia from the 2014 World Cup and not allow them to host the 2018 World Cup. In

Four Iranian Christians will receive 80 lashes each for drinking communion wine. The sentence comes just as the United Nations released a report by Ahmed Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, criticizing the country for their

Arguably one of the most liberal Republican senators in Washington, D.C., Mark Kirk of Illinois, voted against bringing the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill to debate last week. Kirk is now facing a backlash from the Chicago media for his

Senator Mark Kirk questioning Attorney Gen. Eric Holder as he testifies before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Justice Department’s FY2014 budget.