Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) slammed GOP lawmakers who said they plan to oppose Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in his bid for Speaker, calling the conservatives holding out against McCarthy “kamikazes” trying to “sink the whole Republican Party.” Gingrich, who served as Speaker from 1995 to 1999, said on Fox News on Monday...
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Outgoing Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said managing the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2015 riots in Baltimore and his cancer diagnosis were the greatest challenges he faced during his time as governor. Hogan met with the Washington, D.C.-based Fox affiliate FOX 5 for an interview to reflect on his time as governor as his second term...
The suspect being held in a machete attack of three police officers in New York City on New Year’s Eve was previously on the FBI’s radar and was interviewed by agents in the weeks before the attack, according to CNN. Trevor Bickford, 19, had indicated he wanted to travel overseas to help fellow Muslims. His...
President Biden is entering the new year riding high off a better-than-expected midterm election performance for his party that has improved his political standing while damaging his chief GOP rival — former President Trump. Yet Biden also enters the new year with lingering questions over his age and his overall political strength — most notably...
“Good Morning America” host Robin Roberts announced on the show on Monday that she will be getting married this year. Roberts will be marrying her longtime girlfriend, Amber Laign, a massage therapist from San Francisco. She first publicly acknowledged her relationship with Laign in 2013 in a Facebook post marking Roberts’s recovery from cancer. Roberts...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), who was the target of a 2020 kidnapping plot that was thwarted by law enforcement, said the prison sentences for two of the leaders of the plan were "just" and called on both parties to tame violent threats and hateful rhetoric. Whitmer, who was recently elected to a second term...
Israel conducted a missile strike on Syria's international airport in its capital of Damascus on Monday, killing two soldiers and injuring two others, the Syrian army said. The attack happened shortly after midnight and put the airport out of service, according to the army. Israel had previously targeted airports and ports in parts of Syria...
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) predicted on Monday that a "true" conservative would emerge to challenge House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in his quest to become Speaker and doubled down on a promise to vote against McCarthy one day ahead of the leadership election. “I think you’ll see on the second ballot an increasing number...
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) on Monday called House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) “part of the swamp cartel” and vowed to not support McCarthy's bid to become Speaker ahead of the vote tomorrow. Good told Fox News’s Griff Jenkins on “Fox & Friends” that he plans to follow the will of his constituents, hundreds of...
A former Republican aide to two past GOP House Speakers said in an op-ed published Monday that a “self-serving” move by a small group of Republicans to potentially deny House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) the Speakership would make a “mockery” of the institution of Congress. Brendan Buck, a communications consultant who previously worked for...
Former White House aide Hope Hicks told a fellow aide in text messages during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that “We all look like domestic terrorists now” as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. Texts released by the House select committee investigating that day show Hicks texting with Julie Radford, former chief of staff to Ivanka...
America’s current Middle East policy arose following the 1979 Iranian revolution and Lebanon’s civil war. These seismic events convinced policymakers that Washington’s interests were best served by stability (tamping down conflicts to ensure a steady flow of oil) and containment (bottling up radicals in Tehran and Beirut to prevent the spread of their burn-the-village-to save-the-village...
A preliminary review of the thousands of pages of Donald Trump’s tax returns released by a key Congressional committee on Friday confirms that the former president was using business losses in the tens of millions of dollars to reduce his annual tax liability, in some cases all the way down to zero. While one of...
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) offered some key concessions to his detractors in a House Rules package released by Republicans on Sunday, but it is still far from clear whether the moves will help him lock up the votes necessary to become Speaker on Jan. 3. The compromises include allowing a move to “vacate...
Nine House conservatives expressed doubts about electing Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as the next speaker of the House, calling for a "radical departure from the status quo" ahead of the Tuesday floor vote. In a Sunday letter obtained by The Hill, Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) led seven other hardline Republican...
The family of the suspect arrested this week in the deadly November stabbings of four University of Idaho students said they were cooperating with law enforcement in an effort to promote his "presumption of innocence" in the murder case. In a statement released Sunday, the family of suspect Bryan Christopher Kohberger said they "care deeply...
The 2022 mid-term elections have concluded, resulting in a “split decision” as Republicans won a majority in the House of Representatives, and Democrats maintained control of the U.S. Senate. In the wake of the most expensive and seemingly contentious mid-term elections in American history, the question remains as to what can we expect from the...
Northern California and western Nevada were slammed over the weekend by a powerful winter storm that deluged towns and counties with several inches of rain and snowfall. An atmospheric river storm pulled in moisture from the Pacific Ocean before pushing through the western states. As of Sunday afternoon, power was out in more than 170,000 California...
An early new year's morning shooting in Ocala, Fla., left two people dead and four wounded. Davonta Harris, 30, and Abdul Hakeem Van Croskey, 24, were killed in the shooting, the Ocala Police Department said in a statement Sunday afternoon. Four people are being treated for gunshot wounds sustained in the shooting, the department added,...
Former President Trump blamed the “abortion issue” for Republicans underperforming expectations in the 2022 midterm elections. Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Sunday that many in the GOP handled the issue poorly, especially those who “firmly” insisted on no exceptions to bans on the procedure, including in instances of rape and incest. He...
Vice President Harris finds herself at a crossroads as she enters her third year in office. After a bumpy start, which saw a string of missteps and a slew of staff departures, Harris has sought to steady the ship. Now, as President Biden is expected to run for reelection, Harris will need to support him...
Former Capitol Police chief Steven Sund writes in a forthcoming book that issues remain at the agency two years after "a failure" in its upper ranks left it unprepared for the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. “Almost two years after the events of Jan. 6, the department is not in a better place or on a...
