Republicans continued to chastise Padilla, using words like "launch," "lunge" and "bum rush" to describe Padilla's behavior ...

This is about our standing up for one of our colleagues… if we don’t, then our democracy starts to die.” But some Republican ...

"If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you," the California governor says ...

America seems headed to an angry and ugly place. Inflammatory incidents, rhetoric and dissent unleashed by President Donald ...

Alex Padilla's handcuffing at a Homeland Security press briefing has Republicans and Democrats pitted against each other on a ...

Politicians took to social media to react after the California senator was nearly tackled to the ground for interrupting the ...

A day after federal agents forcibly restrained and handcuffed U.S. Sen Alex Padilla at a Los Angeles news conference, leaders of the country’s two political parties responded in what has become a ...

The incident occurred amid heightened political tensions nationwide, including protests against federal immigration ...

The reactions to Padilla's treatment were split ... thought he was an attacker and officers acted appropriately." Padilla's political career began in 1999, when he was elected to the Los Angeles ...

Senator Alex Padilla was removed from a Homeland Security press conference in LA after attempting to ask questions on ...

House lawmakers from both sides of the aisle gave strong reactions shortly after Sen. Alex Padilla's ... DHS slammed it as "disrespectful political theater." The press conference was focused ...

But the fact his roughing-up was on camera means it could be a powerful political launching pad for Democrats as they step up resistance to the president. In the initial reaction to Padilla’s ...