A woman twice showed up uninvited at Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff's $8 million Malibu home, prompting security to call the sheriff late Friday evening.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday he has not asked President-elect Trump to make calls on his behalf to Republicans who are still on the fence about his bid to retain the gavel. "No, I haven’t, no," Johnson told reporters in a gaggle. "I met with him yesterday at Mar-a-Lago. We had a great visit....
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she is en route to Washington after recently undergoing a hip replacement surgery in Germany folowing a fall in Luxembourg last month. “I am on my way to Washington to proudly represent the people of San Francisco in Congress. I'm honored to do so to share our San...
An independent congressional watchdog wants to dig deeper into separate campaign finance allegations against two lawmakers, Reps. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.). The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), an independent, nonpartisan committee that reviews allegations of misconduct against House members and staff, alleged Thursday that Ogles may have misrepresented a loan to his...
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.), who has been a key holdout in House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) tight race to continue his Speakership, said Thursday that she will decide Friday whether to vote for him. “I will make [the] decision tomorrow,” Spartz told a group of reporters in the Capitol, adding that she and Johnson met...
Former Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) penned a Thursday op-ed in The Wall Street Journal urging Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to initially focus their push to cut government spending on Congress if they want to have a lasting impact. President-elect Trump tapped Musk and Ramaswamy to co-lead the "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE), a commission...
Snowpack in the mountains of California is near average for this time of year, after a recent series of storms provided a much-needed boost to the region, officials reported Thursday. The season's first manual snow survey recorded 24 inches of snow depth and a snow water equivalent — the amount of water contained in snow — of...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has taken a swipe at Elon Musk’s defense of the H-1B visa program, which has driven a wedge between two factions of President-elect Trump’s most ardent supporters. Sanders, who has long argued for raising wages for workers in the U.S., criticized the wealthy tech entrepreneur’s elevation of the foreign visa system,...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has one more day to win over skeptical House Republicans before they vote on whether he keeps the gavel. In the narrow House GOP majority, Johnson can only afford to lose one vote, assuming all lawmakers are present and voting for a candidate — and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has already...
Vice President-elect JD Vance has shared Elon Musk's op-ed supporting the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), while the German government has accused Musk of trying to influence the upcoming February election.
President Trump could surprise the world by delivering a speech of genuine humility and grace during his second inaugural address, acknowledging the potency of his own divisiveness and conceding that half the country is dismayed or terrified by the prospect of another Trump term.
