Politics

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (PALM BEACH, FL) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is spending New Year’s Day with President-elect Donald Trump ahead of a showdown vote later this week to keep his leadership post. Johnson told Louisiana-based radio station News Radio 710 KEEL that he would spend the day Wednesday with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate […]

Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican Rep. Chip Roy said Tuesday that he doesn’t think House Speaker Mike Johnson has the necessary votes to remain speaker in Friday’s leadership election. “Right now, I don’t believe that he has the votes on Friday, and I think we need to have the conference get together […]

Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — On the eve of a new year and a second Trump presidency, Chief Justice John Roberts issued a stark warning to the incoming administration, members of Congress and the public about threats to the nation’s independent judicial system and the rule of law. “Within the past few years, elected officials […]

Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Tributes are pouring in for former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100. His life and legacy will be celebrated in Washington, D.C., Atlanta and in Carter’s hometown of Plains, Georgia, over the coming days. Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Ernie Suggs covered Carter and the work of […]

Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threw his support behind Speaker Mike Johnson amid a fight over the House gavel that will culminate in a vote at the end of the week. “Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man,” Trump wrote at the end of a […]

Rebecca Noble/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has withdrawn from their appeal of the classified documents case against President-elect Donald Trump’s co-defendants and referred the case to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, according to a court filing Monday afternoon. Smith last month dropped his appeal against […]

Benjamin E. “Gene” Forte/CNP/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The funeral for former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at the age of 100, will be held on Jan. 9 at Washington National Cathedral. Carter will also lie in state in the Rotunda at the U.S. Capitol, the Carter Center said on Monday, after an invitation […]

ABC News Republican Rep. Mike Lawler argued Sunday that Rep. Mike Johnson should be reelected as speaker of the House despite Republican infighting on whether he should keep the position after how he handled a spending bill that prevented a government shutdown last week. “Mike Johnson inherited a disaster when [former Rep.] Matt Gaetz and […]

Hum Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president known as a champion of international human rights both during and after his White House tenure and who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his lifetime of dedication to that cause, has died at 100, ABC News has […]

ABC News The outgoing chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on ABC’s “This Week” that President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to seize the Panama Canal could drive allies of the United States toward Russia and China. In an interview Sunday with “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl, Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, said Trump’s recent statements […]