Majority Leader Steve Scalise's path to the House speaker's chair hit a brick wall Thursday and he surprised rank-and-file Republicans by dropping out of contention after roughly 20 conservatives refused to support him.

Colorado Democrats are coming under pressure to force out a newly appointed state legislator after he flippantly refused to denounce Hamas atrocities against Israeli women and children while attending a pro-Palestinian rally.

A Colorado judge has rejected an attempt by former President Donald Trump to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to keep him off the state ballot, ruling that his objections on free-speech grounds did not apply.

Majority Leader Steve Scalise's path to the House speaker's chair hit a brick wall Thursday as roughly 20 conservatives refused to support him, prompting Republicans to hit the panic button.

A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service charged with leaking tax information to news outlets about former President Donald Trump and thousands of the country's wealthiest people pleaded guilty to a federal charge Thursday in an agreement with prosecutors.

Former Vice President Mike Pence will skip the Nevada caucuses run by the state Republican Party, which has adopted rules that critics say favor former President Donald Trump, and will instead compete in a state-run primary contest.

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in his first campaign advertisement after dumping the Democratic Party to run as an independent, shared that he is "fed up."

A significant meeting of influential Republicans is happening this weekend. That would be the First in the Nation Leadership Summit, taking place Friday and Saturday in scenic Nashua, New Hampshire.

Being Werner Herzog, or just working with him, may be an occupational hazard. In his baroquely titled new memoir, Every Man for Himself and God Against All, the German filmmaker describes almost dying many times. His casts and crews fare little better: A single production in the Amazon suffered an attack by hostile tribesmen who near-fatally gored several crew members with 6-foot-long arrows, a poisonous snake bite, and two plane crashes, one of which left someone paraplegic. The bitten man, knowing he had only a minute before the venom reached his heart, amputated his own leg with a chainsaw. Those wounds used the last anesthetic, so when an accident split a cameraman’s hand, a prostitute soothed him by holding his head between her breasts. One of Herzog’s star actors, the notorious Klaus Kinski, once started shooting at colleagues with a rifle. Thankfully, the only casualty was a finger.

Good thing Jackson, Wyoming, kept its fleet of 30 diesel buses on hand when it purchased eight electric buses to lower its transit system’s carbon emissions.