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Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., one of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's harshest critics, answers questions from members of the media after speaking on the House floor, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. Gaetz has said he plans to use a procedural tool called a motion to vacate to try and strip McCarthy of his office as soon as this week. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Rep. Matt Gaetz files motion to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy, throwing House into new turmoil
By FARNOUSH AMIRI AND KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press
Mon,10/02/23-6:11PM , 77 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing an extraordinary referendum on his leadership of the House after a conservative member of his own Republican majority, a longtime critic, moved to launch a vote to oust him from the helm.
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Miah Cerrillo, a fourth grade student at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and survivor of the mass shooting appears on a screen during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

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4th grade Uvalde survivor: 'I don't want it to happen again'
By FARNOUSH AMIRI AND KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press
Wed,06/08/22-11:09AM , 67 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — An 11-year-old girl who survived the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, recounted in video testimony to Congress on Wednesday how she covered herself with a dead classmate’s blood to avoid being shot and “just stayed quiet.”
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This combination of photos shows the members of the House select committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6, attack. Top row from left, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., and Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif. Bottom row from left, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. (AP Photo)

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Jan. 6 committee's members are on diverging political paths
By FARNOUSH AMIRI AND KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press
Wed,06/08/22-9:23AM , 92 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nine members of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S.
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Buffalo Bills' Josh Allen visits the scene of Saturday's shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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House passes domestic terrorism bill after Buffalo shooting
By FARNOUSH AMIRI AND KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press
Wed,05/18/22-3:28PM , 81 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed legislation late Wednesday night that would bolster federal resources to prevent domestic terrorism in response to the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.
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