The House's most conservative faction has promised to derail plans to approve the annual Pentagon policy bill before Christmas if the legislation includes an extension of the government's chief spying powers.

A federal judge on Friday prohibited the separation of families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration for eight years, preemptively blocking resumption of a lightning-rod, Trump-era policy that the former president hasn't ruled out if voters return him to the White House next year.

Megyn Kelly, who moderated the fourth GOP debate Wednesday, said Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie got all "up in my grill," during a commercial break. Ms. Kelly, who was one of the moderators for the fourth debate hosted by NewsNation, discussed the viral video of the former New Jersey governor on her show, "The Megyn Kelly Show."

New York can continue to enforce laws banning firearms in certain "sensitive" locations and require that handgun owners be of "good moral character," a federal appeals court ruled Friday in its first broad review of a host of new gun rules passed in the state after a landmark Supreme Court ruling last year.

The Republican National Committee has lifted restrictions on candidates participating in debates and other forums the party does not control, clearing the way for CNN's planned debates.

The Washington Times' Tim Constantine and ForAmerica's David Bozell discuss why voters are tired of sending people to Congress only for their representatives to break campaign promises.

Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, who was chairman of the now-defunct House Jan. 6 committee, won't say what happened to full transcripts and video of the committee's depositions that GOP investigators now seek.

President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, said Republicans are trying to get to him to destroy his father's presidency.

A major appeals court on Friday upheld most of the gag order prohibiting former President Donald Trump from making public statements about "foreseeable witnesses" in the federal case that accuses him of conspiring to defraud the U.S. in seeking to overturn the 2020 election results.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper mocked House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) for a claim he made about Hunter Biden’s recent indictment Friday. “[M]y concern is that [Special Counsel David Weiss] may have indicted Hunter Biden to protect from him having to be deposed in the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday," Comer said to Tapper. ...