KEVIN MCCARTHY

Two months ago, Kevin McCarthy was booted as House speaker.

North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry won't seek reelection to the U.S. House next year after all.

The House is making history this year.

New House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to rebuild the Republican's slim majority.

A former fundraiser for U.S. Rep. George Santos has pleaded guilty to a federal wire fraud charge.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has endorsed Donald Trump for president, a move that was a symbolic departure from his ousted predecessor leading the House.

The House has voted overwhelmingly to prevent a government shutdown.

New House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing his first big test as he tries to win House Republican support for a short-term funding plan to avert a government shutdown.

There are just 10 days before another potential government shutdown.

Ken Buck has gained national prominence as a Republican congressman fed up with Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

New Speaker Mike Johnson says the U.S. House will consider a fresh aid package for Ukraine, but he wants to link it to more money at home for the U.S. border with Mexico.

U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, a conservative Republican who represents much of Colorado’s rural eastern plains, says he won't seek a sixth term in Congress.

The House has rejected an effort to censure Democratic Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, scrapping a Republican attempt to condemn the only Palestinian-American in Congress over her recent rhetoric around the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

Mike Johnson does not typically mention one aspect of his work before being elected to Congress.

New House Speaker Mike Johnson has inherited many of the same problems that bedeviled Republican leaders with far more experience.

Evangelical Christian conservatives have long had allies in top Republican leadership in Congress.

President Joe Biden has met with new House Speaker Mike Johnson at the White House.

Republican congressman Mike Johnson of Louisiana has been elected House speaker.

Republicans have chosen Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana as their latest nominee for House speaker.

It’s Day 20 without a House speaker, and Republicans are starting over.

For many Americans, the Republican dysfunction that has ground business in the U.S. House to a halt as two wars rage abroad and a budget crisis looms at home is feeding into a longer-term pessimism about the country’s core institutions.

An onslaught of pressure from the Republican Party base was intended to prod the GOP’s moderate and establishment members to support Rep. Jim Jordan for House speaker.

Addressing the nation from the Oval Office, President Joe Biden has made his case for major U.S. backing of Ukraine and Israel in a time of war.

Refusing to drop out, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan is telling GOP colleagues he is still running for House speaker.

There will be no further votes for House speaker on Wednesday after Republicans reached an impasse on how to move forward.

Rep. Jim Jordan has failed to win the vote to become House speaker on a crucial second ballot.

Watch live coverage as the House of Representatives holds a vote to elect a new speaker. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was removed from the speakership after Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., filed a motion to vacate against him.

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries is calling on Republicans to work with Democrats to elect a speaker.

Rep. Jim Jordan is facing strong opposition to his speakership bid as 20 fellow Republicans voted against him on a first ballot.

Republicans have rejected congressman Jim Jordan for House speaker on the first ballot.

Hard-charging right-wing Republican Rep. Jim Jordan is shoring up support to win the House speaker's gavel.

President Joe Biden has postponed a trip to Colorado to stay in Washington and focus on the growing conflict in the Middle East.

Rep. Jim Jordan becoming House speaker would help cement the far right’s takeover of the Republican Party and trigger conflict with Democrats over the size and scope of government.

The U.S. House has been without a leader for more than a week, as majority Republicans threw out Speaker Kevin McCarthy and refused to rally around his No. 2, Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise.

Republicans have chosen firebrand Rep. Jim Jordan as their new nominee for House speaker, putting the gavel within reach of the staunch ally of GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump.

Rep. Patrick McHenry is presiding over the House as speaker pro tempore following the unprecedented ouster of Kevin McCarthy.

Republican Steve Scalise has ended his bid to become House speaker after failing to secure the votes to win the gavel.

Republican colleagues call Steve Scalise a fighter, but the nominee for House speaker may be in for a brawl.

The speaker of the House is normally elected every two years, in January, when the House organizes for a new session.

Former President Donald Trump is defending his record governing the nation for four years without any new wars.

Social Security's cost-of-living increase for 2024 will be announced Thursday.

Dysfunction within the Republican Party isn’t limited to the leadership chaos in the House of Representatives playing out in the nation’s capital.

The war provoked by Hamas’ attack on Israel has shaken American politics and put the Republican presidential primary race in Nikki Haley's wheelhouse.

Republicans have nominated Rep. Steve Scalise to be the next House speaker.

New polling shows that the unprecedented ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has left no consensus among Republicans about whether his removal was the right move.

The House Republican majority is stuck and unable to coalesce around a new speaker.

Republicans have no clear idea who will be U.S. House speaker, leaving an unprecedented power vacuum in Congress.

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The recent collapse of Ukraine aid in Congress was months in the making.

Donald Trump’s decision to insert himself into the chaotic race to replace Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker will serve as a test of the former president’s sway with lawmakers as he works to win a second term.

Republicans are trying to rally around a new House speaker after Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s ouster.

Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio to succeed Kevin McCarthy as House speaker.

Some members of the GOP are wondering if anyone can take Kevin McCarthy's place as a fundraising dynamo and party builder.

The future of additional U.S. aid to Ukraine is in doubt now that Kevin McCarthy has been ousted as House speaker.

Surging interest rates are intensifying the challenges for the U.S. economy and threatening to derail the Federal Reserve’s drive to tame inflation without causing a deep recession.

Most of the top Republican candidates running for president in 2024 reacted grimly to the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy by a faction of hard-liners in their own party.

The day before he was ousted, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was doing what he loved — stopping to greet tourists at the Capitol and gushing over its place in American democracy.

Facing a likely roadblock from House Republicans on aid for Ukraine, President Joe Biden said Wednesday he’s planning to give a major speech on the issue and hinted there may be “another means” to support Kyiv if Congress balks.

The stunning removal of Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker has left the House adrift.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy had support from 208 members of his conference to remain as House speaker.

Republican California congressman Kevin McCarthy's ouster from the speaker role has left the House of Representatives roiling.

Now that Kevin McCarthy is out of his job as House speaker, one of his top lieutenants is presiding over the chamber while the chamber figures out who will be the next leader.

GOP presidential candidate Mike Pence, the former vice president, chastised a group of hard-right Republicans who ousted Kevin McCarthy from his role as House speaker Tuesday, saying that “chaos is never America’s friend.”.

The House of Representatives has entered uncharted territory after the success of a last-ditch, right-wing effort to remove fellow Republican Kevin McCarthy from the speakership.

Former Vice President Mike Pence is criticizing his boss-turned-rival, Donald Trump, for calling retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a traitor.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been voted out of the job in an extraordinary showdown, a first in U.S. history.

The White House says President Joe Biden has been in touch with U.S. allies and partners to discuss continued support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing an extraordinary referendum on his leadership of the House after Rep. Matt Gaetz, a longtime critic, moved to launch a vote to oust him from the helm.

One of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's harshest critics is making good on his threat to try to remove the California Republican from his leadership post.

President Joe Biden is expected to deliver remarks after a government shutdown was averted.

Rep. Matt Gaetz says he'll try to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a fellow Republican, from his leadership position this week.

President Joe Biden says American aid to Ukraine will keep flowing for now as he tries to reassure allies of continued U.S. financial support for the war effort.

Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman has acknowledged triggering a fire alarm in a U.S. Capitol office building.

The threat of a federal government shutdown ended late Saturday night after Congress approved a temporary funding bill to keep federal agencies open until Nov. 17.

The White House has pinned the blame for a possible government shutdown on House Republicans who, until Saturday, had been paralyzed by their inability to pass a funding package.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's last-ditch plan to keep the government temporarily open has collapsed.

The House is in a familiar position with little time left to prevent a government shutdown: It's effectively paralyzed as conservatives feud with Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is digging in on his refusal to take up Senate legislation designed to keep the federal government fully running beyond midnight Saturday.

With persistent gridlock in Washington, a government shutdown looks all but inevitable ahead of this weekend's deadline.

The Senate is marching ahead with a bipartisan approach to prevent a government shutdown.

Accusations that New Mexico’s Democratic-led Legislature unfairly diluted the vote of a politically conservative oil-producing region with its redistricting map have gone to trial.

Congress is starkly divided over very different paths to preventing a federal shutdown.

Allies of Speaker Kevin McCarthy are working furiously to shore up support for the latest Republican plan to prevent a government shutdown.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy has turned to a strategy that so far has preserved his tenuous hold on House leadership, but also marked his tenure by chaos.

A U.S. government shutdown would have disrupted many services that Americans rely on and squeezed federal workers.

The White House has direct federal agencies to get ready for a shutdown after House Republicans left town for the weekend with no viable plan to keep the government funded.

With the collapse of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s latest plan to avert a federal shutdown, lawmakers have left town with no endgame in sight.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he won't give up trying to pass a conservative bill to prevent a government shutdown.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy is trying to accomplish what at times seems impossible.

House Republicans plan to hold their first hearing next week in their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden over his family’s business dealings.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Washington this week comes at a critical time as Republican leadership in the House and Senate diverge on the best way to get more military and humanitarian aid over the finish line.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is running out of options as he tries to press forward with a plan to keep the federal government from shutting down.

The United States is at risk of another damaging government shutdown, potentially as soon as the end of September.

The most vulnerable House Republicans whose elections in swing districts next year will determine which party gains control of the chamber are overwhelmingly voicing their support for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

About half of Americans have little or no confidence that the Justice Department is handling its investigation into Hunter Biden in a fair and nonpartisan way.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is telling fellow Republicans threatening to oust him: Go ahead and try.

The White House is working to stay above the fray on the historic impeachment proceedings launched ahead of the 2024 election by House Republicans.

President Joe Biden is brushing off the House Republicans' impeachment inquiry.

The White House is calling the Republicans’ newly-launched impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden “extreme politics at its worst.”.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he's directing the House to open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.