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Comedian and political commentator Bill Maher said Democrats are partially to blame for the election of Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) in that he appealed to the party’s love of “victimhood” and “identity politics.” Maher said on the first episode of the new season of his HBO show “Real Time” on Friday that Santos claimed to…

Members of Congress are perceived to have among the lowest ethical standards of any occupation, according to a new Gallup poll. The survey found 62 percent of respondents said members of Congress have “very low” or “low” ethical standards, while only 9 percent said they had “very high” or “high” standards. Only telemarketers received a…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed for the “exponential increase” of the country’s nuclear arsenal as he started the new year with another weapons test. North Korean state media reported that Kim also ordered the development of a more powerful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). He said at a recent party meeting that North Korea…

Americans are split on whether there has been too much focus on the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection as the country reaches the second anniversary of the attack on the Capitol. A Politico-Morning Consult poll found that 47 percent of respondents said they strongly or somewhat agree that the country has focused too much on the…

Republican Rep. Scott Perry claimed House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy had "sidelined or resisted" the group of lawmakers who had worked with him "in good faith for months."

“Good Morning America” host Robin Roberts announced on the show on Monday that she will be getting married this year. Roberts will be marrying her longtime girlfriend, Amber Laign, a massage therapist from San Francisco. She first publicly acknowledged her relationship with Laign in 2013 in a Facebook post marking Roberts’s recovery from cancer. Roberts…

More than 1 million people in the United States are without power as a strong winter storm has swept across the country, dropping temperatures well below freezing in many states. A plurality of the outages are occurring in New England, where more than 500,000 customers were without power as of Friday evening, according to the…

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection released transcripts from interviews with 46 additional witnesses on Friday after releasing its first round of transcripts on Wednesday. The witnesses from this round of transcripts released include former Attorney General William Barr, former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, former White House counsel Pat…

Section 3 of the amendment states that no one who previously took an oath to support the Constitution and engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” shall “hold any office, civil or military, under the United States.”

The GOP nominees for three statewide positions in Arizona have filed lawsuits contesting the election results in the state after all three narrowly trailed their Democratic opponents in close races from last month’s midterm elections. Republican nominees Kari Lake, running for governor, Mark Finchem, running for secretary of state, and Abe Hamadeh, running for attorney…