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The U.S. Dept. of Justice Friday signaled it is conducting a criminal investigation of U.S. Rep. George Santos' campaign finances when it asked the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to pause its probe into the embattled New York freshman GOP lawmaker....

For months, Fox News and other right-wing media outlets relentlessly hyped former special counsel John Durham's probe of the Russia investigation. Durham, appointed by former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, conducted what was essentially an investiga...

New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not mince words when South Carolina GOP Rep. Jeff Duncan urged her to "educate herself" after she proposed an amendment to a fossil fuel bill, HuffPost reports.The bill, according to Roll Call,...

A former U.S. attorney who knew that the Department of Justice during Donald Trump's administration was protecting the former president is off the hook for an ethics complaint that could have led to his disbarment.In the book...

A new report from the New York Times details how former Attorney General Bill Barr's efforts to discredit the probe into the Trump campaign's contacts with Russian agents completely floundered.One particularly telling section of the Times' sto...

During his four years in the White House, Donald Trump often claimed "executive privilege" in order to avoid cooperating with investigations he disliked. And he isn't the only far-right MAGA Republican who has used that concept. Someone who ma...

The rural-urban voter divide has plagued the United States for nearly three decades, and only continues to increase. For decades now, rural districts are typically governed by Republican House members, while suburban and urban areas tend to be governed by...

Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who is married to House Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and served in the Trump Administration, has held her tongue about former President Donald Trump's anti-Asian comments — until now.Trump has grow...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has drawn plenty of criticism from Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, for removing Rep. Adam Schiff and Rep. Eric Swalwell, both of California, from the House Intelligence Committee. McCarthy has cited...

United States Representative Elise Stefanik (R-New York), the chair of the House Republican Conference, defended former President Donald Trump and ex-Vice President Mike Pence for having classified documents in their homes during a press conference on Tue...

On Monday, January 23, liberal Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona officially announced that he is seeking the 2024 Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat presently held by centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a former Democrat turned independent who has yet t...

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a top Trump ally who has defended the Republican ex-president at almost every turn, is speaking up to defend President Joe Biden in the face of the DOJ's probe into his handling of classified documents.Graham, 67, a...

A retired chief Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) official who reportedly worked on the Trump-Russia probe was arrested and charged in federal court for allegedly having close ties to a U.S. sanctioned Russian billionaire and stealing $225,000 in cash wh...

The surprise premiere of a documentary revealing...

U.S. Congressman Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) won immediate praise Monday morning after officially announcing he is challenging Democrat-turned-independent U.S. Senator Krysten Sinema for her senate seat.Calling Gallego "a liberal firebrand and prominent Lati...

On Sunday's edition of This Week, United States Congressman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) defended House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) for placing Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) on the Homeland Security and Oversight Committees d...

On Sunday's edition of Meet the Press, CBS moderator Margaret Brennan fact-checked United States Congressman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) after he accused President Joe Biden of stealing and exploiting classified documents that were uncovered during a Federal...

As former President Donald Trump kicks off his third presidential campaign ahead of the 2024 election, one former Republican Party spokesperson is shedding light on the one vulnerability that could negatively impact his chances of taking the White House a...

As Julian Assange awaits the final appeal of his looming extradition to the United States while languishing behind bars in London's notorious Belmarsh Prison, leading left luminaries and free press advocates gathered in Washington, D.C. on Friday for ...

The Sundance Film Festival added a new documentary to its lineup that intentionally slams the FBI for its probe into Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanuagh's sexual assault allegations, Mediaite reports.Director Doug Liman says his first documentary na...

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre blasted Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis for banning public schools from teaching AP African American history, while not banning a similar class on European history.DeSantis, who is expected to launch...

Stepping into his new leadership position, a new analysis is explaining how House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is attempting to improve the areas of contention with far-right Republican lawmakers. The road to speakership was not an easy one for McCar...

The North Dakota House of Representatives has introduced a bill that would prohibit expanded use of pronouns outside of the gender that the person was born. House Bill 2199 restricts the definition of gender to the person's natural gender at birth and...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) may have booted Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) from his committee assignments in the House of Representatives, but that's apparently left the California Democrat with more time to trash McCarthy publicly during MSNBC app...

Anyone who signs a Democratic or Republican online petition is likely to be bombarded with e-mail fundraising pitches, often with over-the-top subject headings. Some political donors, according to Politico's Jessica Piper, have grown so weary of endle...

Freshman New York Republican Congressman George Santos has been handed two committee assignments, including one on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, which oversees NASA.MSNBC's Ryan Nobles reports Santos, who is seen by many as a ser...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) recently admitted that he, too, has had questions about Rep. George Santos' (R-N.Y.) resume as the newly-elected lawmaker faces scrutiny for his checkered past. On Monday, January 16, the top-ranking Republican ...

A Republican who served as the vice chairman of the powerful House and Ways and Means Committee blasted Kevin McCarthy after he lost the chairmanship to a congressman with far less seniority, apparently as part of a large set of deals the new Speaker of t...

DOJ special counsel Jack Smith is looking into finding out who pays for former president Donald Trump officials' lawyer fees, Huffpost reports. Originally reported by The Washington Post, the subpoenas that were given to Trump's campaign staff rec...

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) on Monday inadvertently undercut his party's case against President Joe Biden's alleged mishandling of classified documents during a Fox News interview.Specifically, Comer argued that the big scandal regarding the Biden doc...

Last Tuesday, Reuters congressional reporter Patricia Zengerle informed the American public that the new Republican majority in the United States House of Representatives eliminated a fifteen-year-old ban on smoking inside the Capitol....

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries joined New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and other state Democrats at a Bronx rally Saturday, just days ahead of what is sure to be a contentious confirmation hearing in which progressive lawmakers opposed to LaSalle's a...

On Sunday's edition of Meet the Press, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein whose oversight of the United States Department of Justice's probe into ex-President Donald Trump's ties to Russia sparked massive public controversy weighed ...

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said he would resign if he had been caught telling lies like Rep. George Santos (R-NY).During an appearance on ABC, host Jonathan Karl asked Bacon what Santos should do after he was busted for...

Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) is spinning a bizarre conspiracy theory about the classified documents involving President Joe Biden. Jackson believes Democratic leaders are pushing the issue to sabotage the president. According to Jackson, Democrats may be ...

Legislators in the Missouri House of Representatives sparred on Wednesday over a Republican amendment to regulate what types of clothing women lawmakers should be permitted to wear while at work. House Resolution 11 was cleared by the GOP-dominated Consen...

Former President Donald Trump released a video on Wednesday filled with conspiracy theories about President Joe Biden, Biden's son Hunter, COVID-19, and purported infiltration of social media platforms by undercover agents of the Federal Bureau of Inv...

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday said two pro-forced pregnancy proposals put forward by House Republicans would be...

U.S. Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the Republican chair of the powerful House Oversight Committee is repeatedly pushing a baseless narrative that President Joe Biden, who has served his nation for 50 years, is "compromised.4;Chairman Comer, who has...

Stephen Colbert recently weighed in on the new rules passed by Republican lawmakers as they take over the House of Representatives. On the January 10 segment of...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is "intensifying4; its investigation by choosing to question individuals from the team that searched former President Donald Trump's properties and found more classified documents last year, The Guardian reports....

United States Congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) became a fierce defender of Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-California) during his rocky ascension to speaker of the House last week. This was a notable evolution of their relationship, which ...

Soon after the U.S. House reconvenes Monday to vote on the rules package containing many of the concessions House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made to secure to votes of far-right Republicans, the party is also expected to introduce what the new leader said ear...

United States Congressman Scott Perry (R-Pennsylvania) claimed on Sunday's edition of This Week that there is nothing remiss about him serving on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's proposed select committee to investigate the Justice Department's ...

According to a report from Vox, House Democrats, observing the Republican Party rancor that preceded the 15-ballot election of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to become the new House speaker, see an opportunity to maintain a certain amount of control of the ch...

Democratic United States Senate candidate Lucas Kunce released a brutal campaign ad against incumbent Republican Senator Josh Hawley on Friday morning to remind voters in Missouri that Hawley sprinted out of the besieged Capitol on January 6th, 2021, afte...

With Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) assuming the House speakership after 15 grueling roll-call vote counts due to a faction in his own caucus who bitterly opposed him, one GOP adviser claimed that anti-McCarthy GOPers are likely going to pay for ...

After several days of infighting among House Republican lawmakers, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has been named speaker of the House. Now, he's revealed who he credits for his uphill victory. According to Mediaite, McCarthy credited former President ...