After a long and arduous process, Kevin McCarthy was elected as the Speaker of the US House of Representatives on January 7, 2023. The election…
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The FBI has increased the reward for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible for planting two pipe bombs near the Capitol the…
House Republicans are facing criticism for their first act as the majority party in Congress: a proposal to weaken the Office of Congressional Ethics. The…
More than 2,000 protesters gathered at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, the first day the building reopened to tourists since the pandemic began in 2020.…
Katie Hobbs was sworn in Monday as Arizona’s 24th governor, the first Democrat to hold the office since 2009. Hobbs and other new top Arizona…
The House select committee investigating the January 6th Capitol attack released transcripts of interviews with Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, former White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato, and Robert Sinners, who worked on the Trump campaign’s Election Day operations in Georgia in 2020. Thomas told the committee that her text message expressing disgust with then-Vice President Mike Pence was not related to his refusal to stop the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s win, but rather to her frustration with him not talking up election fraud claims. Sinners told investigators his “intent was never to be aligned with team crazy” and Ornato said he couldn’t recall details from January 6, citing “the fog of war” during the US Capitol attack. The committee also released emails showing an aide for former President Donald Trump reaching out to Jared Kushner about trademarking phrases related to the 2020 election.