House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday won a unanimous closed-door vote for his first, full term as Speaker, despite rumblings of a possible rebellion against him, after he received a full-throated endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump.
Some evidence that a federal judge had excluded from the bribery trial of former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was inadvertently put on a computer given to jurors, federal prosecutors revealed Wednesday, though they insisted it should have no effect on the Democrat's conviction.
Here's a new phenomenon to consider: "Post-election season stress." This term comes to us from the University of Southern California's Center for Health Journalism, which released on Wednesday a brief study titled "Reflecting on the Election's Toll on Journalists."
Several Republican lawmakers want Congress to strip the security clearances of dozens of former U.S. intelligence officials who worked against President-elect Donald Trump in 2020 by asserting that information in the laptop of Hunter Biden was likely Russian disinformation.
Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson, who served two Republican presidents as one of the country's best known conservative lawyers and successfully argued on behalf of same-sex marriage, died Wednesday. He was 84.
Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency whose mascot is a super-cute dog that muses things like "much wow," has been racing higher in value since Donald Trump won the presidential election last week. It got another bump after Trump named Tesla's Elon Musk as one of the heads of a new "Department of Government Efficiency," which is not a government agency but does have the acronym DOGE.
President-elect Donald Trump said he plans to nominate former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence, the Cabinet member in charge of gathering and sharing sensitive foreign information and secrets.
The $1 million voter sweepstakes linked to billionaire Elon Musk was allowed to continue through Election Day because Philadelphia's top prosecutor failed to show that it was an illegal lottery, a judge said in a new opinion.
PITTSBURGH — Late Wednesday evening, the Pennsylvania Department of State said an automatic recount was triggered in the state’s U.S. Senate race between incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) and Republican Dave McCormick, who is the apparent senator-elect. This was one day after McCormick spent his first day at the U.S. Capitol in an orientation meeting with colleagues […]