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'Ten GOP members have endorsed a candidate so far'

Hard-line conservatives are plotting to challenge Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for the gavel during Wednesday’s internal House GOP elections, four sources familiar with the matter told The Hill. The sources — who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive internal deliberations — said the conservatives are planning to nominate an alternative candidate [...]

Control over the U.S. House of Representatives still hangs in the balance, teetering between a Republican or Democratic majority with more than a dozen races left to be called

While strong rhetoric on the campaign trail can cause these big swings, not all of the promises turn into actual policy.

Suburban voters outside Chicago generally bucked a national conservative trend in Tuesday’s election by supporting more than a dozen measures to borrow more than $1.1 billion to fund schools, and more for fire stations, park facilities and open land.

If current projections hold, Republicans are on track to retain their majority.

Nine NFL teams have nearly no chance nine weeks into the season

"It's the economy, stupid!" That is, was and will always be.

Sen. Steve Daines is pushing colleagues to support Sen. John Thune in the leader race, according to a source familiar.

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Mike Tyson and Jake Paul will face off Nov. 15 in a heavyweight boxing match streamed exclusively on Netflix. Here are the rules the boxers will be required to follow: Tyson and Paul must spend the first 20 minutes explaining who they are to Gen Z and Gen X, respectively. Boxers are each limited to [...]The post Rules For The Mike Tyson Vs. Jake Paul Fight appeared first on The Onion.

Donald Trump is preparing to hire a new round of people to help him run the country. With Trump’s track record of never-ending chaos and disorder, they may want to keep their resumes handy.Trump is reportedly considering a team of loyalists, the people who will tell him he’s never wrong when he suggests policies like injecting bleach to fight off COVID-19 and launching nuclear weapons at hurricanes.Among the names in circulation are former ambassador and social media troll Richard Grenell heading the State Department; apostrophe investigator Rep. Elise Stefanik as U.N. ambassador; Taliban meeting coordinator Mike Pompeo as secretary of defense; and anti-vaccine crackpot Robert F. Kennedy Jr. running the Department of Health.

Football fans in two of the nation's most closely divided states try to catch a break from the presidential campaign.

Both on the airwaves and the campaign trail, it’s time for candidates and campaigns to make their final pitches and make sure their voters turn out. It’s already past the time when the U.S. Postal Service says it is safe to mail ballots — especially in states with requirements that ballots be received, rather than [...]The post At the Races: Closing time appeared first on Roll Call.

National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chair Steve Daines (R-Mont.) is telling colleagues that he will support Senate Republican Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) in the race to become next Senate Republican leader, according to sources familiar with the private conversations. Daines’s public support would be a promising development for Thune, who is locked in a tough [...]

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The school system in Aurora, Colorado, is striving to accommodate more than 3,000 new students mostly from Venezuela and Colombia

Less than two weeks remain until the election that will determine which political party controls the House of Representatives, but House Republicans are already battling over how they would run the chamber come January 2025.Control of the House remains a toss-up, with forecasting models giving Democrats a slight edge to regain the majority. But if Republicans do maintain control, it looks like they will have a difficult time even agreeing on how to govern themselves, Politico reported. While Speaker Mike Johnson and his allies would gladly nuke the archaic “motion to vacate” rule, a small group of right-wing members wants to preserve the provision that allows a single member to force a vote to oust the speaker of the House, according to Politico. That same faction used this tool to boot Kevin McCarthy in October 2023, a mere 269 days after he was elected speaker following a humiliating 15-round voting marathon.The latest report of infighting is just another embarrassing display from the GOP, which has barely been able to govern with a narrow majority.

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House Republicans are bracing for potential leadership shake-ups in the coming weeks, a post-election scramble that will heavily depend on who wins control of the lower chamber and White House in November. The biggest wildcard is what Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will do. The Louisiana Republican has said he wants to continue to lead the [...]

Rep. Mondaire Jones has been getting pummeled by ads pointing out that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed him during his 2020 run, gushing that he was "the pride of New York."

Please, no mention of genitals in speeches. Is that too much to ask?

Once upon a time, a charismatic demagogue threatened civil war, while elected liberals flailed around helplessly

A former Park Service ranger says U.S. Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy has been lying about a bullet wound that the candidate said came from fighting in Afghanistan.

Kamala Harris is the third presidential nominee in the last half-century to run as a sitting vice president, presenting unique challenges for her campaign.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries vows calm, stable governance over Republican chaos if his party wins the majority in the 2024 elections.

The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board endorses Jonathan Jackson, Robin Kelly, Mike Quigley, Sean Casten and Danny Davis for the U.S. House.

The border was featured heavily in a speech by former President Bill Clinton in Georgia, where he is stumping for Vice President Kamala Harris.

If given a second term, the Republican and his allies are preparing to go much further.

Voters in a ring of congressional districts encircling New York City where Republican candidates often do well but Trump struggled in 2020 could decide which party controls the U.S. House for the next two years.

#TheAgenda has an agenda to push.

There’s little oversight or accountability for how Texas soldiers guarding the border treat migrants and asylum-seekers, critics say.

The necessity of a strong American power grid, which alone can power our homes, businesses and military bases, must transcend partisan politics.

WASHINGTON — Leading defense authorizers say they hope to move swiftly on a top legislative priority — the annual, must-pass defense policy bill — when Congress returns to town in a month and a half.

An October surprise is usually defined as the well-known (and more often left-wing) tactic of manufacturing or unloading a news story right before voting to surprise a rival without allowing them time sufficiently to respond or recover.

City officials announced the second phase of its heat pump incentive program, which offers homeowners up to $1,500 assistance to replace air conditioners and $500 to replace existing heat pumps.

A newly unsealed court filing sheds fresh light on the pair's interactions.

Lawmakers and the Secret Service in the past week have revealed stunning failures in planning, leadership and communication that allowed a 20-year-old gunman to nearly assassinate Donald Trump at a July 13 rally in Butler County, Pennyslvania — where the...

Jan. 6... Terminating the Constitution... Rounding up 21 million people.... America, we’ve got some bad news.

After four years of coddling Iran and allowing them to enrich themselves, the Biden-Harris administration has endeared itself to one of the most anti-democratic regimes in the world.

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance is walking a fine line by continuing to spread unfounded rumors of Haitians eating pets in Ohio.

Some of Donald Trump’s advisers are meeting foreign officials on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly where U.S. allies are seeking to get a grasp on what a Trump win in the Nov. 5 election would mean for U.S. foreign policy. It was not clear who had met or planned to meet the [...]

The early spending by both parties reveals which races are seen as the most competitive, and the ones that could alter the balance of power at the State House.

One year since House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was booted from office after Congress voted to fund the federal government, the new House Speaker Mike Johnson finds himself courting, but so far avoiding, a similar fate. Johnson is preparing to lead...

The GOP presidential nominee's pitches to working-class voters — including capping credit card interest rates — aren't convincing members of his party on Capitol Hill.

Sen. Cornyn is highlighting his fundraising ability as he and others battle to fill Minority Leader McConnell's shoes in the next Congress.

Donald Trump has claimed that a group of Air Force pilots with a "blond crew-cut" entered his Oval Office and told him about a series of bizarre encounters with UFOs

Golf may provide a welcome distraction to presidents, but for U.S. Secret Service agents, presidential golfing is a nightmare assignment.

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