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Pelosi won’t say what her political future holds despite promise to step aside from leadership

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday dodged questions about whether she would keep her promise to step away from a leadership position in the next Congress.

November 13, 2022

Watch your back Kevin: The knives are out for McCarthy

The House GOP's smaller-than-expected majority increased leverage for the chamber's arch-conservative House Freedom Caucus to demand concessions from Mr. McCarthy in exchange for support for his speakership bid.

November 13, 2022

Manchin delivers another gut punch to Biden’s climate agenda

Sen. Joe Manchin III forced a setback to President Biden's green agenda Thursday by wielding his power atop the Senate Energy Committee and refusing to sign off on one of the administration's top climate change lieutenants.

November 10, 2022

‘What-ifs’ plague GOP after midterms temper outlook, spark Trump criticism

Republicans are staring at a slate of "what-if" questions as they try to figure out why their chance to steamroll Democrats in the midterm elections failed to materialize.

November 9, 2022

Emboldened Freedom Caucus presents hurdles to Kevin McCarthy’s run for House speaker

A far-right challenge is brewing to House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy's run for speaker, prompting him on Wednesday to quickly start lining up support in the conference.

November 9, 2022

Trump becomes political punching bag for underwhelming GOP performance as party looks to DeSantis

"Blame Donald Trump" is the name of the game after the long-promised red wave turned into a red ripple Tuesday night. Republicans appeared likely to narrowly recapture the House, with the Senate still a toss-up.

November 9, 2022

First openly transgender man wins state legislature seat

James Roesener made history Tuesday by becoming the first openly transgender man to be elected as a state lawmaker, according to the political action committee LGBTQ Victory Fund.

November 9, 2022

AOC, ‘Squad’ members cruise to easy victories in safe districts

A group of the House's most far-left members known as the "Squad" faced easy reelections Tuesday night in their deep-blue districts.

November 9, 2022

House Republicans want world leaders to take them seriously on climate change

The lawmaker leading a delegation of House Republicans to a United Nations climate conference wants the world to know that the party is interested in more aggressively combating climate change under a GOP-run Congress.

November 8, 2022

Mum’s the word for energy regulator on charges of White House coordination on climate rules

The independent energy commission overseeing the U.S. power sector is facing accusations of shielding public records to protect one of President Biden's top climate-change lieutenants and the agency's leader.

November 8, 2022

Transgender people to be turned away from the polls in certain states for lack of proper ID

Hundreds of thousands of transgender people who are eligible to vote will likely be unable to cast their ballots Tuesday because of state voter ID laws that require their identities to match their identifying documents.

November 8, 2022

DOJ sends poll monitors to 24 states amid fears of voter intimidation

Department of Justice civil rights attorneys will monitor Tuesday dozens of voting jurisdictions in 24 states to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws amid accusations that right-wing organizations have engaged in voter intimidation.

November 8, 2022

Pelosi: Decision on staying in leadership ‘will be affected’ by attack on husband

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in her first interview since her husband was assaulted in their San Francisco home that the attack has affected whether she will remain in a leadership role after Tuesday's elections.

November 8, 2022

U.N. climate conference spurs ‘gloom and doom’ predictions

The annual United Nations climate conference that kicked off this week produced dire warnings from world leaders that the planet will soon be in peril if people don't start taking climate change more seriously.

November 7, 2022

U.N. conference puts a spotlight on world’s deprioritizing of climate change amid energy crisis, war

Environmentalists want renewed commitments from world leaders this week at the annual United Nations climate conference to tackle global warming after a year of backsliding on climate pledges amid turmoil in energy markets.

November 7, 2022

Police investigating ‘suspicious items’ sent to Kari Lake’s campaign headquarters

Local police confirmed Sunday that authorities were investigating "suspicious items" sent to the office building that is home to the campaign headquarters of Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.

November 6, 2022

Herschel Walker flips the script, labels Biden ‘biggest threat to democracy’

Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker said Sunday that President Biden is the "biggest threat to democracy," borrowing a phrase from the Democratic president's prime-time speech warning about the future of democracy days before Tuesday's elections.

November 6, 2022

Ronna McDaniel says election denying is not ‘what the American people are caring about right now’

Ronna McDaniel criticized President Biden's recent prime-time address about threats to democracy as out of touch with the most pressing issues facing voters, a miscalculation the Republican National Committee chair argued that will boost the GOP on Tuesday.

November 6, 2022

Rick Scott on future of safety net programs: ‘We have got to start being honest with the public’

Sen. Rick Scott pushed back Sunday on the notion Republicans will try to slash safety net programs like Social Security and Medicare if they retake control of Congress.

November 6, 2022

Biden ‘gets a bum rap’ for Democrats’ potential poor midterm showing, DCCC chair says

The head of House Democrats' fundraising arm said Sunday that President Biden has received unfair scrutiny for his low approval rating that could drag down the party on Election Day.

November 6, 2022