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Brandon Bell/Getty Images (TUSCALOOSA, Ala.) — Four Republican presidential candidates took the stage in Alabama on Wednesday night for one last chance to trade attacks and stake out policy positions before voting starts in the 2024 primary, in Iowa and New Hampshire, next month. The debate, the smallest yet, featured former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former …

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted from his role by a faction of his own party earlier this year, will resign from Congress at the end of the month, he said on Wednesday. “I have decided to depart the House at the end of this year to serve America in new ways,” McCarthy …

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democrats are touting a new mantra to anyone who will listen as the election cycle ramps up: 2024 is “the year of the states.” Amid growing handwringing over President Joe Biden’s reelection chances, a brutal Senate map and an anticipated knife fight for the House of Representatives, Democrats are elevating the importance of state legislative …

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he was blurring the complete surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in order to protect participants from being charged by law enforcement — a statement soon reversed by a spokesman. “We have to blur some of the faces of persons who …

J.Castro/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday he will advocate Republican senators vote against advancing additional aid for Ukraine and Israel “to make the point, hopefully for the final time, that we insist on meaningful changes to the border.” In a continuing standoff over the aid the White House says is urgently needed, Senate Majority Leader …

Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday labeled rival Donald Trump an existential threat to the country’s system of government as he responded to the former president’s recent comments pushing back on such criticism by claiming it is Biden who is really the “destroyer of American democracy.” The back and forth reflects how the issue of protecting …

Digital Vision./Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Hundreds of military nominees were confirmed unanimously on the Senate floor Tuesday just hours after Alabama’s Tommy Tuberville announced he was ending his hold on most promotions. It took just a matter of minutes to push more than 400 nominees through — a long-awaited breakthrough after Tuberville’s 10-month blockade over the Pentagon’s abortion policies. Jack …

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House will hold a formal vote to authorize the ongoing Republican-led impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, Speaker Mike Johnson announced Tuesday. Johnson said the House is at an “inflection point” and accused the White House of “stonewalling” the investigation, which was launched by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy back in September. “They’re refusing to …

Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special counsel Jack Smith, in a court filing Tuesday, detailed additional evidence he plans to introduce at the trial of former President Donald Trump on charges of unlawfully trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election, including evidence of Trump’s alleged state of mind as his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. “This …

Henrik5000/Getty Images (TUSCALOOSA, Ala.) — Four Republican presidential candidates will face off in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Wednesday for the fourth debate of the 2024 primary. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will all appear on stage together for the last time before next month’s Iowa caucuses …