More Republicans began taking sides Tuesday in a battle for the speaker's gavel that pits Majority Leader Steve Scalise against Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan.

A suburban Chicago man is facing stalking and vandalism charges after being accused of throwing rocks at the home of Gov. J.B. Pritzker, breaking three windows, Illinois State Police said Tuesday.

Former U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi on Tuesday launched a campaign to retake the New York congressional seat held by Rep. George Santos as the besieged Republican congressman faces a sprawling list of criminal charges.

A former Alabama lawmaker on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a voter fraud charge that he rented a closet-sized space in a home to fraudulently run for office in a district where he did not live.

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Montana Sen. Jon Tester on Tuesday called for $6 billion in Iranian oil assets used in a recent American prisoner swap to be immediately refrozen after the Hamas terror attacks against Israel.

A new indictment unsealed Tuesday charged U.S. Rep. George Santos with stealing the identities of donors to his campaign and then using their credit cards to ring up tens of thousands of dollars in unauthorized charges.

Caroline Ellison, the tech executive who ran Sam Bankman-Fried 's hedge fund while sometimes dating him, testified Tuesday that he directed her to commit crimes before his cryptocurrency empire collapsed last November. She also revealed that her former boss and boyfriend thought he might be U.S. president someday.

Uncle Sam ran a deficit of nearly $1.7 trillion in the just-concluded fiscal year, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, pointing to higher spending and lower revenue as the culprits for an increasingly grim fiscal picture.

Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) criticized Democratic leaders in a Tuesday interview for not condemning more forcefully Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-Mich.) statement calling on the United States to halt aid to Israel after the country suffered the deadliest terror attack in its history by Hamas early Saturday. “And if you watched Tlaib, Tlaib said, our...