WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives failed to choose the next Speaker of the House Tuesday, as a band of arch-conservative U.S. lawmakers continued to vote against fellow Republican Kevin McCarthy’s bid to lead the 118th session of Congress. After three rounds of voting, the House adjourned until noon Wednesday to continue the process. It […]
WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives picked a new leader Wednesday, New York Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, who will become the first Black person to lead either major political party in Congress when the new congressional session opens in January. The 52-year-old Jeffries, a House member for 10 years, has vowed to “get […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Democrats are going to hold narrow control of the Senate when the new Congress takes office in January, but control of the House of Representatives remained uncertain Sunday, five days after last week’s election. Republicans are holding a 211-204 edge in the House with elections for 20 seats yet to be decided in […]
Former U.S. President Donald Trump left Washington with more than 700 pages of classified documents, including some containing the government’s top secrets, when his presidency ended last year, the National Archives disclosed Tuesday. The disclosure came in a letter dated May 10 from the acting U.S. archivist, Debra Steidel Wall, to one of Trump’s lawyers, […]