Trump gets Johnson across the finish line but dramatic speaker vote signals challenges ahead
With two Republican lawmakers standing between Mike Johnson and the speaker’s gavel, President-elect Donald Trump picked up ...
Johnson wins dramatic vote to remain House speaker
Republican Rep. Mike Johnson was elected House speaker as the 119th Congress will began Friday after flipping two GOP ...
NY judge says Trump will face no penalties in his criminal hush money case but upholds conviction
President-elect Donald Trump will face no legal penalties for his conviction in the hush money case, a New York judge ruled Friday.
What you need to know about the House speaker election
The 119th Congress will begin on Friday, ushering in a new era of Republican control in Washington that will start with a ...
Biden blocks Japan’s Nippon from taking over US Steel
President Joe Biden said Friday he is blocking a $14.3 billion acquisition of US Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel, marking a significant use of executive authority in the closing days of his ...
Tim Scott celebrates historic milestone as longest-serving Black US senator
With the start of the 119th Congress on Friday, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott will become the longest-serving Black Senator ...
Speaker Johnson will oversee narrowest House majority in nearly 100 years
Speaker Mike Johnson faces a major challenge in the new Congress: the narrowest House majority in nearly 100 years.
5 things to know for Jan. 3: New Orleans attack, Cybertruck blast, House speaker vote, Apple lawsuit, South Korea standoff
A massive piece of space debris crashed into a remote village in Kenya this week, prompting an immediate investigation by the country’s space agency. Experts say the fallen object — a metallic ring ...
Trump says he’s been in touch with GOP holdouts ahead of Speaker vote
President-elect Trump said he has been in touch with Republican holdouts ahead of Friday afternoon’s Speaker vote, as ...
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‘Total Sham’: CNN’s Scott Jennings Torches NY Officials For Playing ‘Partisan Politics’ With Trump Case
CNN’s Scott Jennings ripped into New York officials Friday over President-elect Donald Trump’s case, calling them out for “partisan” politics.
Trump seizes on a U.S. citizen’s deadly attack to rail against immigrants, ‘open borders’
Though a U.S. citizen killed revelers on Bourbon Street, experts say the incoming president sees advantages in blaming ...
‘He’s very angry’: Haberman on Trump’s response to hush money sentencing decision
Judge Juan Merchan upheld Trump’s conviction in the New York hush-money case, rejecting the president-elect’s effort to throw ...