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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, of Calif., talks to reporters, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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McCarthy passes 1st House speaker test, but hurdles remain
By LISA MASCARO AND FARNOUSH AMIRI - Associated Press
Tue,11/15/22-12:31PM , 68 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leader Kevin McCarthy won the nomination Tuesday for House speaker, clearing a first step with majority support from his colleagues, but he now faces a weeks-long slog to quell right-flank objections before
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From left, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., arrive for a ceremony in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, Sept. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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Congress faces leaders in flux, big to-do list post-election
By LISA MASCARO AND FARNOUSH AMIRI - Associated Press
Sun,11/13/22-11:08PM , 389 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is returning to an extremely volatile post-election landscape, with control of the House still undecided, party leadership in flux and a potentially consequential lame-duck session with legislation on gay marriage, Ukraine and government funding.
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Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., left, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., listen. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Jan. 6 probe: Trump sets rally after 'unhinged' WH meeting
By LISA MASCARO AND FARNOUSH AMIRI - Associated Press
Mon,07/11/22-11:02PM , 161 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a heated, “unhinged” dispute, Donald Trump fought objections from his White House lawyers to a plan, eventually discarded, to seize states' voting machines and then, in a last ditch effort to salvage his presidency, summoned supporters to march on the U.S.
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Pat Cipollone, the former White House counsel under President Donald Trump, arrives at an interview room in the Ford House Office Building to answer questions from investigators with the Jan. 6 Select Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Trump WH counsel Cipollone gives 1/6 testimony, new info
By LISA MASCARO AND FARNOUSH AMIRI - Associated Press
Fri,07/08/22-9:03AM , 103 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone “did not contradict” testimony of previous witnesses as he appeared Friday before the Jan. 6 committee, a grueling daylong private session that produced new information to be divulged in future public hearings, one lawmaker said.
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