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Republicans who vote against party leaders’ preferred candidate could be barred from running in primaries. Lawsuits could follow.

Speaker Mike Johnson is still trying to protect attorney general nominee and now-former Rep. Matt Gaetz from public scrutiny, reiterating his demand that a report from the House Ethics Committee into allegations that Gaetz had sex with minors be kept sealed. The damning report into Gaetz’s behavior was set to be released last week. However, Gaetz abruptly resigned hours after Donald Trump nominated him to be the country’s top law enforcement officer. It was almost certainly an effort to keep the Ethics report from being released, as the committee no longer has jurisdiction over members of Congress once they are out of the chamber.“There’s a very important reason for the tradition and the rule that we always, have almost always followed. And that is that we don’t issue investigations and Ethics reports on people who are not members of Congress,” Johnson said in an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.” “I’m afraid that that would open a Pandora’s box because the jurisdiction of the Ethics Committee is limited to those who are serving in the institution.”But not all Republicans agree with Johnson.

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Republicans have won full control of Washington, but Democrats will retain two key levers of power to shape legislative outcomes in Donald Trump’s second term.

We're updating results for city council races in the San Gabriel Valley and Whittier areas. Here are the latest returns.

Former President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will end the use of billboards to advertise illegal immigrant rights to those in federal custody.

GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance tried to stop the bleeding from the Republican presidential ticket, after a comedian made a racist joke about Puerto Rico and Latinos at a Trump campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.Vance said Monday night that people need to get "over it" and "stop getting so offended" at the joke, in which Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage" and made a vulgar comment about Latinos and ejaculating without protection.“A comedian told a joke, and I don’t think that’s news worth making,” Vance told a reporter at a campaign rally in Wisconsin, according to NBC News.Vance added, “Maybe I’m old fashioned, or maybe I just grew up with a grandmother who had an especially foul mouth. But you know what I do? You know what I do when I think a joke is dumb or not funny? I don’t laugh.”But voters don’t seem to be buying Vance’s argument, as the outrage over the so-called “joke” is not going away. The media, usually averse to calling things racist, has been unafraid to label Trump’s MSG rally as such.

WASHINGTON — The battle for the House is ultracompetitive one week away from Election Day, with both parties bracing for potential narrow majorities come January but seeing their own paths to victory.

Bacon-themed products are on display in Rep. Don Bacon’s campaign office in Omaha, Neb., on Oct. 16, 2024.

The word that comes to mind is “overwhelmed.”

The state of Colorado has suspended a program that allows people to buy a state flag that has been flown over the Capitol. The problem? The program recently gave a flag to Gays Against Groomers.

Latino House Republicans are building out campaign infrastructure to protect their members and grow their numbers, at times directly competing with their Democratic counterparts, who have a huge head start. Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) is leading efforts to elect more GOP Hispanics to the House through the Hispanic Leadership Trust (HLT), a PAC launched in [...]

The state of Colorado has suspended a program that allows people to buy a state flag that has been flown over the Capitol.

More than 600,000 migrants with criminal records are in American cities and towns. The policies of the Biden-Harris administration have effectively erased our southern border.

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Just as Vice President Kamala Harris has gotten the media to play along regarding issues caused by nominally legal immigrants flooding into unprepared cities and overwhelming local services, she faces [...]The post ICE Releases Disturbing News About Illegal Immigrant Murderers and Rapists at Worst Possible Time for Kamala appeared first on The Western Journal.

Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., arrives for the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

The violent street gang known as Tren de Aragua has been making advances throughout the United States and drawing national attention in the process.

U.S. leaders and lawmakers are reacting with joy after the arrest of two Sinaloa cartel leaders this week, putting a dent in the ambitions of a top drug cartel.