Speaker Johnson calls on Biden to visit Columbia amid pro-Palestine protests
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is urging President Biden to visit Columbia University and observe the pro-Palestine protests roiling its Manhattan campus after Johnson and a group of GOP lawmakers...
View ArticleStefanik files ethics complaint against Jack Smith
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) filed an ethics complaint against special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday, accusing the prosecutor overseeing the federal investigations into former President Trump of...
View ArticleHouse Republicans launch investigation into federal funding for universities...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Tuesday announced an investigation into the federal funding for universities where students have protested the Israel-Hamas war, broadening a campaign that has...
View ArticleDemocrats say they will save Speaker Mike Johnson's job if Republicans try to...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats will vote to save Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s job should some of his fellow Republican lawmakers seek to remove him from the position, Democratic leaders said...
View ArticleHush money trial judge raises threat of jail as he finds Trump violated gag...
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump was held in contempt of court Tuesday and fined $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some...
View ArticleFight over Johnson’s fate heats to a boil as Democrats vow unprecedented rescue
The simmering debate over the fate of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) reached a rolling boil on Tuesday when top Democrats vowed to shield the embattled GOP leader from a conservative coup — and...
View ArticleBiden's historic marijuana shift is his latest election-year move for young...
PHOENIX (AP) — President Joe Biden may eventually ban TikTok, but he's moving to give something back to the young people who dominate the popular social media app — a looser federal grip on marijuana....
View ArticleBiden campaign rips Trump's Time interview: 'We cannot go back'
Biden 2024 campaign co-Chair Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) lambasted former President Trump over his immigration comments in a Time magazine interview published Tuesday, during which he vowed mass...
View ArticleDemocrats retain upstate New York congressional seat in special election
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Democratic state Sen. Timothy Kennedy won a special election Tuesday for the New York congressional seat vacated by Democrat Brian Higgins. Kennedy easily defeated Republican Gary...
View ArticleDeSantis opens door to Trump truce as he weighs political future
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is taking steps to thaw relations with former President Trump, his primary-season rival, as he considers his next political move — including another potential White House...
View ArticleGreene unveils plan to force vote on Speaker Johnson ouster
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announced Wednesday she’ll act next week to force a vote on whether to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), an extraordinary move highlighting the internal turmoil in...
View ArticleCharges revealed against former Trump chief of staff in Arizona fake elector...
PHOENIX (AP) — The chief of staff for former President Donald Trump faces the same conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges as the other named defendants in Arizona's fake elector case, the state...
View ArticleRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene vows to force a vote next week on ousting House...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Wednesday she would call a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson, forcing her colleagues to choose sides in a difficult...
View ArticleLawmakers want the Chiefs and Royals to come to Kansas, but a stadium plan...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Some Kansas lawmakers see a chance to lure Kansas City's two biggest professional sports teams across the Missouri border. But an effort to help the Super Bowl champion Chiefs and...
View ArticleHouse passes bill to expand definition of antisemitism amid growing campus...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed legislation Wednesday that would establish a broader definition of antisemitism for the Department of Education to enforce anti-discrimination laws, the latest...
View ArticleDemocrats advance election bill in Pennsylvania long sought by counties to...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill long sought by counties seeking help to manage huge influxes of mail-in ballots during elections in the...
View ArticleHakeem Jeffries isn't speaker yet, but the Democrat may be the most powerful...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Without wielding the gavel or holding a formal job laid out in the Constitution, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries might very well be the most powerful person in Congress right now. The minority...
View ArticleArizona will repeal its 1864 abortion ban. Democrats are still planning to...
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban will soon be gone from the state's law books, but not from the campaign trail. Even after the state Senate voted Wednesday to repeal a law banning nearly all...
View ArticleSenate GOP campaign chief tempers expectations for size of November win
Senate GOP campaign chief Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) is keeping expectations in check for Republicans' quest to retake the Senate majority, maintaining that his only goal is to flip two seats despite...
View ArticleDemocrats split over campus protest crackdown
Senate Democrats in tough races are calling on college and university presidents to crack down on campus protests that have spun out of control, as images of protesters smashing windows and unfurling...
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