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Leading Republicans are expressing confidence in House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) hold on his conference after 12 GOP lawmakers voted down a rule to block the Biden administration from instituting a gas stove ban. Twelve Republicans, largely made up of House Freedom Caucus members, blocked two GOP measures concerning gas stoves in a Tuesday afternoon procedural vote, marking the first

The House of Representatives has approved legislation to suspend the debt ceiling, just days before the U.S. is set to run out of money to pay its bills. Wednesday’s vote was 314 to 117, with a majority of House Democrats voting in favor. If it’s approved by the Senate, the legislation will cap domestic spending below the current rate of inflation, while allowing larger increases to the

Special counsel John Durham concluded that the FBI should never have launched its investigation into connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, according to a report compiled over three years by the Trump-administration appointee and released on Monday. Durham’s 300-plus page report also states that the FBI used “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated

A three-day trial is scheduled to begin Wednesday over the only remaining legal claim in Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her defeat six months ago to Democrat Katie Hobbs in the Arizona governor’s race. The former TV anchor was among the most vocal of last year’s Republican candidates promoting former President Donald Trump’s election lies, which she made the centerpiece of her campaign.