The Republican National Committee has warned former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy that they would be banned from any future RNC debates if they participate in a joint appearance on Fox News.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted Tuesday by a handful of rebel Republicans, throwing the House into chaos and escalating the GOP's battle over the future of the party.

The Biden administration pinned blame for the fentanyl crisis on Chinese operatives and moved Tuesday to try to punish them, bringing a series of federal charges and slapping banking restrictions on companies and individuals the government says are responsible for poisoning tens of thousands of Americans.

Partisan discord and jittery voters seem to be the hallmarks of politics at the moment. The Republican Party has managed to sneak by Democratic Party rivals, however, according to a major pollster.

Sen. Mark Warner is worried that a push to pass bipartisan legislation restricting foreign technology including TikTok is falling apart on Capitol Hill, where momentum has slowed for cracking down on the popular China-founded app.

Tennessee Democratic Rep. Justin Jones filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging his expulsion in April and the House rules restricting lawmakers' floor comments that Republicans applied to silence Jones for part of one day in August.

Former union leader and Democratic insider Laphonza Butler was sworn in as the newest member of the Senate on Tuesday, replacing California Sen. Dianne Feinstein after her death and becoming only the third Black female senator in history.

The federal government spent billions furnishing agency offices during the pandemic despite most buildings sitting nearly empty as employees worked from home, according to a report released Tuesday.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) knows how utterly unfit Donald Trump is for the presidency, yet he continuously genuflected to the man. Now McCarthy has been removed from the speakership by the Trump ally Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) (together with the Democratic Party), and Trump took not the slightest action to save McCarthy from the motion to vacate the chair that passed on Tuesday afternoon.

The tide is continuing rapidly to turn against Democrats and President Joe Biden on immigration, and the shift is now being driven by Democratic governors and mayors.