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Right-wing activist Kyle Rittenhouse promoted his planned attendance at an event at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. But that Wednesday night appearance has been nixed. “You guys aren’t going to wanna miss out on this one!” Rittenhouse tweeted Sunday evening. Rittenhouse’s excited Sin City announcement came shortly after a Texas brewery pulled the plug on the 20-year-old gunman, who famously killed two unarmed men at a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in southern Wisconsin. A first-come-first-serve... Читать дальше...

U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is taking heat for claiming he “had a few questions” about the resume of Rep. George Santos while insisting the serial liar should not be forced out of office. Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman of New York says McCarthy’s effort to distance himself from Santos’s trail of lies makes him “complicit” in the lawmaker’s stubborn refusal to step down from his congressional seat. “The public has no choice but to believe that McCarthy was complicit in concealing Mr. Santos’... Читать дальше...

CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp on Tuesday finally responded to sexual assault allegations leveled against him by a former staffer for Herschel Walker's failed Senate bid.

Failed Republican candidate Solomon Peña advised shooters to "aim lower" at sleeping Democrats that he was targeting in New Mexico, a witness said.

Parental access to school records – and how history and race are taught in Missouri classrooms – will be among the first topics considered by lawmakers this legislative session.

Investigation requests were already submitted to the House Ethics Committee for newly elected Rep. George Santos (R-NY) and it's making the Republican leadership question what committee to put him on as a holding place.

New details emerged on Tuesday involving the case of Solomon Pena, a failed Republican New Mexico state legislature candidate who has been accused of hiring other men to shoot bullets at the homes of Democratic officials.

After a few arduous days of voting, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) finally won over his GOP colleagues on the 15th vote and began his stint as House Speaker. Now that he’s been in the role for a full week, McCarthy reflected on what he believes was a successful first week for the party in a recent New York Post op-ed.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) may have already overplayed his hand by attacking the Department of Justice for its response to President Joe Biden's apparent mishandling of classified documents.

Jeremy Renner suggested he’s home from the hospital in a tweet late Monday, more than two weeks after a snowplowing accident left him critically injured. The actor tweeted about Sunday’s premiere of Season 2 of “Mayor of Kingstown,” which he stars in. “Outside my brain fog in recovery, I was very excited to watch episode 201 with my family at home,” Renner wrote. A representative for Renner didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Renner, 52, was hospitalized in critical but stable condition on Jan. Читать дальше...

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday appeared to run defense for freshman Congressman George Santos (R-NY), the proven serial liar who is under multiple investigations.

The Grapevine Police Department in Texas is facing backlash after accepting a gift from the Christian conservative Patriot Mobile cellphone company, The Dallas Morning News reports.

After being booted from her committee assignments by a majority of House Democrats and Republicans, in the new Congress, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) will sit on the prime Homeland Security Committee.

Former President Barack Obama's national security adviser Ben Rhodes warned that violence by MAGA shooter Solomon Pena is just the beginning of a future of far-right attacks by domestic terrorists.

Just last week, newly minted GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that George Santos (R-NY) should not be a member of any top House committees.

Rudy Giuliani, a personal attorney for former President Donald Trump, claimed on Tuesday that his client's Mar-a-Lago estate had been searched because the FBI wanted to "offset" classified documents that would later be found at the home of President Joe Biden.

Italy's National Cinema Museum has given Oscar-winning Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey an award, it emerged Tuesday, just days after he appeared in court in Britain accused of sexual assault.

Donald Trump spent the past two years fundraising off of his 2020 election loss. Hats, t-shirts, events, photo books, and mugs, all branded with the claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Those who aren't Trump have figured out the profits are significant and the rules are nil.

Resentment lingers within the Republican caucus following the contentious voting for House speaker Kevin McCarthy, with some members still bitter over the deals cut by the California Republican to get the support he needed to prevail.

Activist Rafael Antonio Gomez praised former U.S. President Donald Trump (R), Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) at a Miami-Dade commissioners meeting on Tuesday.

Over the years, one of the GOP’s favorite economic talking points has been that “tax cuts pay for themselves.” The argument is that when the wealthy are given tax cuts, they create new jobs and stimulate growth — and the growth makes up for a decrease in tax revenue. That argument was used when Republicans passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 during Donald Trump’s presidency.

The 2022 midterms went much better than expected for the Democratic Party, with Democrats slightly increasing their U.S. Senate majority and winning key gubernatorial races in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona. Republicans flipped the U.S. House of Representatives, but their new House majority under Speaker Kevin McCarthy is only in the single digits — not the 40-seat or 50-seat supermajority that pundits at Fox News and Fox Business were predicting.

Dr. Mehmet Oz spent his whole Trump-backed campaign for Senate in Pennsylvania dogged by questions about his residency, having lived in New Jersey and having only a tenuous connection to the state in which he was running. That accusation of carpetbagging put him on the defensive throughout the election and was a key factor in his loss to Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman.

Social media platforms failed to address online extremism in the lead up to the the riot at the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 6 committee investigators found. But the details didn't make it into the committee's final report because it was "reluctant to dig into the roots of domestic extremism taking hold in the Republican Party beyond former president Donald Trump," The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Rick Santorum, the former Republican Senator who ran for president in 2012 on a line of fiscal and social conservatism, still has nearly $500,000 in campaign debt, documents released Tuesday show.