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Speaker Johnson begins fight for the House gavel promising to be Trump's 'quarterback'

Nov. 13, 2024 00:26 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson is beginning the hard fight for his gavel, a weeks-long campaign that starts Wednesday during internal House Republican leadership elections and will establish the new power centers in Congress for a Washington dominated by President-elect Donald Trump. ...

Trump ally Steve Bannon blasts 'lawfare' as he faces New York trial after federal prison stint

Nov. 12, 2024 18:35 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — After spending four months in federal prison for snubbing a congressional subpoena, conservative strategist Steve Bannon had a message Tuesday for prosecutors in cases against him and President-elect Donald Trump. “You wait. The hunted are about to become the...

Republican Vos reelected as Wisconsin Assembly speaker despite losing seats, fights with Trump

Nov. 12, 2024 17:01 PM EST

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans reelected Robin Vos as the speaker of the state Assembly on Tuesday, a position he has held longer than anyone in state history and that he reclaimed despite a challenge from a more conservative lawmaker and Democratic gains in the election. ...

Democrat April McClain Delaney wins a US House seat in a competitive Maryland race

Nov. 09, 2024 22:30 PM EST

BALTIMORE (AP) — Democrat April McClain Delaney narrowly won a U.S. House seat in Maryland’s most competitive congressional races that came to focus on reproductive rights and the economy. The state’s sprawling 6th Congressional District covers a wide swath of rural Maryland as...

Republican Jeff Hurd wins Colorado US House seat in Lauren Boebert’s old district

Nov. 07, 2024 14:36 PM EST

Republican Jeff Hurd has won the U.S. House seat in Colorado that Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert nearly lost in 2022 then left for another race, a risky but ultimately successful bet she took in the hopes of keeping the seat in GOP hands and staying in Congress herself. Hurd, more...

Democrat Vindman, known as a Trump whistleblower, wins competitive Virginia House race

Nov. 06, 2024 21:04 PM EST

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democrat Eugene Vindman won Virginia’s most competitive congressional race Wednesday, defeating his opponent in a blow to the GOP’s hopes of flipping the open House seat. In Virginia’s 7th District, Vindman defeated Republican Derrick Anderson by a close...

Trump's election could assure a conservative Supreme Court majority for decades

Nov. 06, 2024 17:34 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has already appointed three Supreme Court justices. In his second term, he could well have a chance to name two more, creating a high court with a Trump-appointed majority that could serve for decades. The decisive outcome spares the court from having...

Trump says if he takes office, he'll fire special counsel Jack Smith 'within 2 seconds'

Nov. 06, 2024 17:30 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump said Thursday that if he wins the White House, he will fire special counsel Jack Smith “within two seconds” of taking office. Trump was asked during an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt whether he would first pardon himself or...

Voters back Nebraska's ban on abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy and reject a competing measure

Nov. 06, 2024 04:10 AM EST

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska voters supported a measure Tuesday that enshrines the state’s current ban on abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy in the state constitution, and they rejected a competing measure that sought to expand abortion rights. Nebraska was the first state to have...

Republican US Rep. Lauren Boebert wins after switching districts in Colorado

Nov. 06, 2024 02:53 AM EST

WINDSOR, Colo. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert won a House seat Tuesday in a Colorado district where she moved midway through her term to avoid what would have been a tough reelection bid in her old district. Boebert, a rabble-rouser who’s helped define an...