Morning Report — Speaker assures GOP critics of ‘big’ 2025 plans

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) — the target of a promised GOP coup next week, which will fail — suggests he wants to lead Republicans in the next Congress. “I’m doing my duty, as I’ve ... Read More

Moderate Republicans prepare to fend off challenges from the right: From the Politics Desk

Plus, how high voter turnout could benefit Republicans this fall and the latest developments from the Trump trial. Read More

Kansas GOP leaders follow Bannon’s advice for manipulating media: ‘Flood the zone with s***’

If you tracked this year’s session of the Kansas Legislature and ended up with a headache, don’t worry. Republican leaders in the House and Senate meant for that to happen. Throughout 2024, they ... Read More

Air Force veteran, former city councilor vie for Republican nomination in Oregon’s 4th Congressional District

A lawyer and Air Force veteran and a marketing consultant and former Keizer city councilor are vying for the Republican nomination to represent Oregon’s 4th Congressional District in the May 21 ... Read More

Biden, Asked if He’s Planning to Debate Trump, Says ‘I Am’

The president’s announcement came after months in which he and his campaign declined to say whether he would debate his predecessor. Read More

The most powerful person in the House? It’s not the speaker. It’s Hakeem Jeffries.

Behind it all is Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who’s demonstrated an alternative to dysfunction and chaos: governing. Without wielding the gavel or holding a formal job laid out in the Constitution ... Read More

Beat at GOP convention, Gov. Cox tells delegates: ‘Maybe you just hate that I don’t hate enough.’

Utah Republicans running for Congress, governor, the Utah Legislature and state school board campaign for delegates' vote at the 2024 Republican Nominating Convention. Read More

Election 2024 guide: Here are Republican primary candidates for Nevada's US Senate seat

Republican candidates seek the chance to run against Sen. Jacky Rosen: Sam Brown, Tony Grady, Jeff Gunter, Jim Marchant, Stephanie Phillips, more. Read More

House approves Ukraine, Israel aid bills

The House approved a $95 billion package of foreign aid bills that would provide funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, among other priorities. The bills moved forward despite a far-right threat to ... Read More

Democrats Virginia Stapleton, Keith Haxton face off in primary for House District 21

Salem City Councilor Virginia Stapleton and former legislative aide Keith Haxton are running for in the May 21 primary election for Oregon House District 21 which encompasses Keizer and North Salem. Read More

Pompidou and political circumstance

The Murphy administration used be all in on the Centre Pompidou in Jersey City. Now, they’re thinking maybe they pompiwon’t. And not because of the way the French spell “center.” Sorry about that one. Read More

Arizona House passes bill to repeal 1864 abortion ban

Make no mistake, Arizonans are living in 1864 now because Donald Trump dismantled Roe v. Wade,” Democratic state Sen. Priya Sundareshan of Tucson said in a news conference before the ... Read More