Speaker Mike Johnson has still not produced a stopgap bill to prevent a partial government shutdown, and the borrowed time to fund the government runs out next week.

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel chalked up GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's comments about her running the committee as him needing a "headline."

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy admitted Thursday that he thinks the Republican Party would benefit "tremendously" if Rep. Matt Gaetz was no longer a member of the House.

President Biden again flashed his pro-union credentials during a speech Thursday to members of the United Auto Workers, one of the few major unions not to have endorsed his re-election bid.

The election results this week in Virginia suggest that Republicans must essentially run the table in competitive areas across the state in order to find overall success at the ballot box. Democrats won full control of the General Assembly despite losing in key swing districts.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Thursday announced an article of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, setting up a showdown vote next week.

Liberal activists hit a Michigan courtroom Thursday as part of their latest efforts to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot, claiming he is not eligible to run for office under the Constitution's insurrection clause.

Few American cartoonists are as adored as Bill Watterson, or as reluctant to embrace that adoration. In 1985, Watterson began publishing Calvin and Hobbes, his syndicated newspaper comic strip about a mischievous Midwestern 6-year-old and his best friend, who is either a talking tiger or a stuffed animal, depending on who does the looking. Watterson deftly and wittily captured the world from a child’s point of view: Calvin’s classroom daydreams become the episodic adventures of his alter egos, Spaceman Spiff and Tracer Bullet (themselves clever parodies of Flash Gordon- and Dick Tracy-style serials), while Calvin’s precocious interactions with, say, his father are opportunities for hilarious misinformation. (His father tells him that babies come from assembly kits at Sears but that Calvin was a “Blue-Light Special” at Kmart, “almost as good, and a lot cheaper.”)

The Beatles may have topped the charts in six countries in 1964 with the hit song “Can’t Buy Me Love,” but as romantic as the sentiment might be, the scientific evidence shows that money often can buy someone love … as long as the person is a man.

In 2012, an Indiana man named Eric Hartsburg got a tattoo of Mitt Romney’s campaign logo on his face. That was weird at the time. Now, more than a decade removed from Romney’s turn as the Republican nominee for president, it seems completely unthinkable. Romney bore the standard of a party whose adherents have gone from inking their faces for him to turning their backs on him with surprising speed.