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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refus...

Republicans looked like they were heading for a no-win debacle on the House floor in their fight over speaker. Instead, Kevin McCarthy got over the to...

The only good thing about Kevin McCarthy scheduling his supposedly triumphant 14th House roll call vote that would finally make him speaker for 10 p.m...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The television split screen told the story. On one side, Republicans in the House of Representatives labored through the fourth of ...

After watching much of the coverage of the 13 votes for Speaker of the House this week, Cattaraugus County political leaders agreed on one thing Frida...

Kevin McCarthy may now have the hardest job in Washington. Assuming that he becomes speaker of the House, which will require the near-unanimous suppor...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — With Election Day two weeks away, Republican prospects of taking control of the House of Representatives, already strong, appear to...

“We cannot just sweep this under the rug. We need to know why it happened, who did it and people need to be held accountable for it. And I'm committed...

When I first heard the rumblings that Donald Trump could become the next speaker of the House, I rolled my eyes. What fresh insanity, right? Like most...

Republicans have been outdoing each other with their rhetorical attacks on big-tech companies out of frustration at the de-platforming of former Presi...

Forgive Americans if they no longer remember that the elephant is the symbol of the Republican Party. Elephants are supposed to never forget, yet Repu...

It may seem impossible to imagine now, but there was a time not long ago when Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell were angry with Donald Trump. It was ...

President Joe Biden’s Republican critics charge that he has foisted a “bait and switch” on voters — that he campaigned as a moderate but veered abrupt...

There’s a word to describe political movements that emphasize ethnic, racial and religious solidarity over citizenship and pluralistic values, but it ...

This week, Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives are expected to fire Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming from the third-highest-ranking job ...

Last week, two of the Trumpiest Republicans in the House of Representatives, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona, said they we...

After months of reckless lies about election integrity culminated in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, a national reckoning is in order. U....

House Democratic leaders are trying to keep the espionage scandal surrounding Intelligence Committee member Rep. Eric Swalwell under tight control. Bu...