Donald Trump

The Republican congressman had been selected just hours earlier by his conference to bid to replace McCarthy

The No. 3 Republican still has to face a full House vote, where it is not certain he will have the support of his entire conference

Three high-profile people responsible for pushing baseless legal challenges to Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory have agreed to accept responsibility for their roles rather than take their chances before a jury

The front-runner candidate becomes the first person who has served as president to file such paperwork in person more than once

Nine lawmakers are aspiring to the position amid the division and chaos of the Republican Party

Election offices have been understaffed for years. But 2020 was a tipping point, with all the pandemic-related challenges before the presidential vote and the hostility afterward stemming from false claims of a stolen election

Prosecutors said the 16 Republicans who gathered in Georgia’s capitol were ‘fake’ electors. Their defenders called them ‘alternate’ or ‘contingent’ electors

The former vice president ended September with just $1.18 million cash-on-hand, according to recent filings, and owed $621,000 in debt

He is the third Republican candidate to pause or end his campaign in a primary contest in which former President Donald Trump holds a commanding lead in early polling

Judge Arthur Engoron reserved the right to hold Trump in contempt — and possibly even put him in jail — if he continued to violate a gag order

The indictment alleges Chesebro coordinated and executed a plan to have 16 Georgia Republicans sign a certificate declaring falsely that Trump won the state

The chamber remained deadlocked as the GOP scrambled to find a replacement for Kevin McCarthy

Retired Deutsche Bank official Nicholas Haigh testified that Trump’s financial statements were key to approvals for hundreds of millions of dollars in loans in 2011 and 2012

Powell, who was charged alongside Trump and 17 others with violating the state’s anti-racketeering law, entered the plea just a day before jury selection was set to start in her trial

The author of ‘Straw Dogs’ — one of the most influential political thinkers of recent decades — analyzes the Israeli conflict and argues that populism is a reaction to liberal policies

The House is considering granting limited powers to Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry to overcome the legislative impasse caused by the speakership debacle

Ryan Kelley misused his platform as a candidate for public office by promoting lies about election fraud, including the baseless claim that Jan. 6 was somehow part of an FBI plot, the judge says

The Ohio representative fell 17 votes short of the necessary majority. The second vote is expected to be on Wednesday morning

Trump’s Save America political action committee has paid nearly $37 million to more than 60 law firms and individual attorneys since January 2022, Federal Election Commission records show

Jim Jordan is working against the clock to secure the 217 votes he needs to be elected to the position. But there are growing calls for a candidate with bipartisan support

Migrants affected by Trump’s zero-tolerance policy will receive benefits such as temporary work permits, housing assistance for up to a year and psychological help

A floor vote that could turn into a showdown is set for Tuesday. Former President Donald Trump ally took a cooperative tone vowing to ‘bring all Republicans together’ if he becomes House speaker

Only 22% of Republicans have high confidence that votes in the 2024 presidential election will be counted accurately, compared to 71% of Democrats

There’s no guarantee his crowds will translate to support in the state’s Jan. 15 caucuses, which will launch the 2024 nominating cycle

Trump has sued the company founded by Christopher Steele, who created a dossier in 2016 that contained rumors and uncorroborated allegations that erupted in a political storm just before he was inaugurated

Tanya Chutkan must balance the need to protect the integrity of the legal proceedings against the First Amendment rights of a presidential candidate to defend himself in public

The Republican, who is backed by former President Donald Trump, avoided a runoff by receiving more than 50% of the votes — winning the election outright