Politics

Speaker Nancy Pelosi intensified pressure Thursday on House Republican leaders for their handling of a controversial GOP freshman, denouncing them for placing a lawmaker who Pelosi says has "mocked the killing of little children" on the chamber’s education committee.

Two journalists were kicked out of a public town hall event and threatened with arrest for trying to ask a question of Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has come under heavy criticism for supporting social media posts that advocated violence against Democratic officials.

AOC isn't having any of Cruz's purported bipartisanship over the GameStop stock battle because the GOP isn't being held accountable for the Capitol riot.

Video from 2019 showing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) haranguing Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg has resurfaced following reports that Greene had previously indicated support for the execution of leading Democrats.

The South Carolina Senate passed a "fetal heartbeat" bill that would outlaw almost all abortions in the state. The governor says he will sign the bill into law.

There is a growing call to remove a Georgia member of the U.S. House of representatives.

A D.C. police officer who responded to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 died by suicide days later. 

Supporting former President Trump is listed as a reason for the MAGA Patriot Party, but a “disavowal” notice states it is not authorized by Trump.

Douglass Mackey, known on the internet as “Ricky Vaughn,” is accused of using Twitter and other social media in 2016 to try and trick Clinton supporters to vote via text message instead of by casting an actual ballot, federal prosecutors said.

The Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism bulletin Wednesday warning of the potential for lingering violence from people motivated by anti-government sentiment after President Joe Biden's election, suggesting the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol may embolden extremists and set the stage for additional attacks.