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Political contributors weigh in on the third Republican debate of the 2024 presidential race.

(CNN) — Less than a day after voters in multiple states rebuked GOP leaders who would restrict abortion rights, five Republicans running for president ignored the issue for the first

Child care programs are closing or raising rates as relief dries up. Both parties should get behind the funding request from President Joe Biden.

Joseph J. Thorndike predicts that the rise of intransigence in the GOP and an impending government shutdown will have negative effects on the IRS.

Out of the obscurity that surrounds almost everyone in the 435-member House of Representatives stepped two men in their early 50s who could shake up the politics of right and left in the US — one is Mike Johnson, the hard-right Republican chosen as House Speaker, the other is Dean Phillips, the centrist Democrat primarying President Joe Biden

The war’s “next stage” has started.

Having someone like newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson lead the Republican caucus is a strong endorsement of social and religious conservatives’ values, writes Patrick T. Brown.

Plus: McKay Coppins previews his upcoming book, Romney: A Reckoning.

In 2015, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called Donald Trump a “chaos candidate” who would be a “chaos president.” While Bush arguably got that part right, what he didn’t foresee was that the Republicans were on their way to becoming the chaos party. Final confirmation of that came with Tuesday’s ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, at the hands of Rep. Matt Gaetz.

Israel says it is at war with Gaza.