Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) brushed off threats to Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) top position, saying threats from conservative Republicans to remove him don’t hold water. “It only takes four Republicans to potentially put [McCarthy] at risk and lose the speakership, but the fact is they have no alternative,” Bacon said Friday in an interview on...

A retired FBI agent pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that he concealed foreign payments of over $225,000 from an Albanian official when he was leading the bureau’s counterintelligence operations in Europe, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced. Prosecutors allege Charles McGonigal, who was in charge of the FBI counterintelligence division in New York, accepted the...

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) denounced attacks on her character after she was kicked out of a theater last week as a “distraction” from government funding efforts. “This whole week has been a total distraction,” Boebert said in a Fox News interview Friday. “We are on the verge of a government shutdown." "We have muscle memory...

A Maryland man who attacked police and a photographer from The Associated Press during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the Capitol was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday, according to the Justice Department (DOJ). Rodney Milstreed pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon and illegal firearm possession in...