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Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, a key figure in high-profile House GOP-led investigations, is seeking the speaker’s gavel after Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the role and declined to run again in a major leadership shakeup.

With the help of intermediaries, Iranian women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi was able to send a letter to CNN from inside Tehran’s Evin Prison.

There was only one way the chaos in the Republican-led House – likened Thursday by one of its members to a “stupid clown car” – could get more extreme.

There was only one way the chaos in the Republican-led House – likened Thursday by one of its members to a “stupid clown car” – could get more extreme.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise has risen through the ranks of leadership during his time in Congress. Next, the Louisiana Republican hopes to be elected House speaker.

Former President Donald Trump said in a recent interview that undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” using language that is often employed by White supremacists and nativists in comments that have drawn rebuke from one prominent civil rights group.

Two shooters were involved in an attack at Morgan State University in Baltimore outside a crowded homecoming event this week, injuring five people, authorities confirmed Friday.

Michelle Hines described her oldest child as a “big brother to everybody,” a blossoming teenager who was a natural caretaker and leader. At just 16 years old, Izaiah Carter was gunned down in the east Baltimore neighborhood near his school.

Donald Trump has asked the federal judge overseeing special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case to dismiss the criminal charges, arguing he has immunity because he was president at the time and also was acquitted by the US Senate after his impeachment.

Former University of Southern California gynecologist George Tyndall, who was accused of sexually abusing his patients, was found dead Wednesday in his home, according to his attorney.