Washington — House Republicans are expected to coalesce around Speaker Mike Johnson in their leadership elections Wednesday, which come just as they secured majority control of the lower chamber for another two years. Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, both from Louisiana, are expected to be reelected to their positions in the next Congress,
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Florida’s three-term senator Marco Rubio to be his nominee for secretary of state, setting the tone for a more hawkish administration on U.S. foreign policy. “Marco is a Highly Respected Leader, and a very powerful Voice for Freedom,” Trump wrote in a Nov. 13 statement. “He will be a strong Advocate
Democratic National Committee leaders are frustrated over the prospect of facing a multimillion-dollar debt from Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, Axios reported Wednesday. DNC chairman Jaime Harrison privately criticized the Harris campaign’s spending and expressed concerns about the scale of its debt, sources told Axios. While the campaign raised just over $1 billion in contributions, the
The Guardian will no longer post its content under its official account on X, the British newspaper announced on Wednesday. The Guardian stated the move had been under consideration for a while, “given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism.” The media outlet added that the
More than $20 billion flooded into the 2024 presidential campaign, shattering the record for political spending in a single election. In an accelerating trend in American politics, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and their allies raised colossal sums of money from billionaires. A majority of these megadonors were Republicans, according to Open Secrets, the nonpartisan watchdog
Thune, who has represented South Dakota in the upper chamber since 2005, bested Texas’s John Cornyn and Florida’s Rick Scott John Thune, Mitch McConnell (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Longtime Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell officially has a replacement: South Dakota’s John Thune, who bested Texas’s John Cornyn and Florida’s Rick Scott in the race to succeed
Thune elected Senate Republican leader John Thune elected Senate Republican leader as Mitch McConnell steps down 02:39 Washington — Senate Republicans on Wednesday elected Sen. John Thune as leader, anointing a new standard bearer to replace Mitch McConnell at the party’s helm in the upper chamber. The South Dakota Republican is set to lead the