U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers, whose nearly four-decade tenure on the bench set key precedent at both the state and federal level, died at home on Oct. 15. He was 88.
James Toepler, 60, of Detroit, has been sentenced to 15 months of probation for threatening to kill Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
Speaker Mike Johnson won the top job on Wednesday after an intense day of elections and meetings about three weeks after ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted.
Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson proclaimed the House was back in business Wednesday after winning the gavel following three weeks of paralysis in the lower chamber without a speaker.
Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx told a reporter to "shut up" Tuesday night after the journalist asked then-Speaker nominee Rep. Mike Johnson about his involvement with the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.