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Jenna Ellis becomes third ex-Trump lawyer to plead guilty in Georgia case

Jenna Ellis, a lawyer who advised former President Donald Trump in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, entered a guilty plea Tuesday in the sprawling Georgia case against the ex-president and his allies.

Seven candidates on the ballot in secret GOP vote for speaker

Republicans met behind closed doors in the House basement Tuesday to elect a new nominee for speaker among seven lawmakers running for the position.

Ilhan Omar rebuked for saying fellow Democratic lawmaker is ‘happy’ about dead Palestinians

Rep. Ritchie Torres has called out fellow Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar for saying he was "happy" that Palestinians are being killed.

Jenna Ellis becomes latest Trump lawyer to plead guilty over efforts to overturn Georgia’s election

Jenna Ellis, an attorney and prominent conservative media figure, reached a deal with prosecutors Tuesday and pleaded guilty to reduced charges over efforts to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 election loss in Georgia.

As House Republicans fight over speaker’s gavel, their majority erodes in court

While House Republicans argue over electing a new speaker, their razor-thin majority is slipping away in courtrooms as redistricting lawsuits in a half-dozen states threaten to make it easier for Democrats to win back control in 2024.

Turkey? Hungary? Trump confuses world leaders in New Hampshire speech

Former President Donald Trump seemed to mix up the leaders of Hungary and Turkey in a speech in New Hampshire on Monday.

Trump’s lawyers file challenges to Washington election subversion case, calling it unconstitutional

Lawyers for Donald Trump are raising new challenges to the federal election subversion case against him, telling a judge that the indictment should be dismissed because it violates the former president's free speech rights and represents a vindictive prosecution.

There’s a long list of candidates for House speaker as Republicans try voting again on a new leader

Three weeks now since the ouster of Kevin McCarthy, House Republicans are meeting privately Tuesday to try nominating a new House speaker to accomplish the seemingly impossible job of uniting a broken, bitter GOP majority and returning to the work of governing in Congress.

Israel war: Biden funds Hamas but turns his back on Nagorno-Karabakh Christians

President Joe Biden announced last week that the United States would provide “$100 million of new US funding for humanitarian assistance in both Gaza and the West Bank.” As my colleague Danielle Pletka notes, the administration will channel money for Gaza from the U.S. Agency for International Development's emergency funds that will not be subject to congressional scrutiny. USAID, meanwhile, will not answer questions about how it will spend that money in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

Did Hamas just prove the Abraham Accords right?

Four days after Hamas began its massacre of Israeli civilians, King Abdullah II of Jordan addressed his country’s parliament, telling lawmakers that Jordan’s “compass will always point to Palestine, with Jerusalem in its heart, and we will never falter in defending its interests and just cause.” His wife, Queen Rania, pointed a finger at Israel and claimed that “it isn’t self-defense if you are an occupying force.”

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