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Topline After a historic and painstaking 15 rounds of voting, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) thanked former President Donald Trump for helping him “get those final votes” to win his bid for House speaker, after a group of hard-right GOP dissenters refused to support the California Republican and had largely rebuffed…

The partner of Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick, who died after the January 6 attack on Congress, has sued Donald Trump, alleging that the former president’s “campaign of lies and incendiary rhetoric” about the 2020 presidential election motivated the mob, and played a “significant role in the medical condition” that…

During the nearly nine hours that Congress was under attack on Jan. 6, 2021, the official White House call logs show former President Donald Trump not placing a single phone call. And while historians may consider the missing call logs a crime of inaccurately memorializing history, it may also actually…

Twitter account information on 200 million users, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Donald Trump Jr., is now available for free on a hacker forum, according to security researchers. The researchers at Privacy Affairs, a group of experts in several countries, say the data  comes from the same trove of…

WASHINGTON — Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., doesn't care that former President Donald Trump backs Kevin McCarthy for speaker of the House. "Endorsements don't matter to me," said Norman, one of 20 Republican holdouts who have blocked McCarthy, R-Calif., from winning the majority he needs on a series of deadlocked votes…

A Trump supporter wears a "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" hat while waiting in the rain before then-U.S. President Donald J. Trump holds a campaign rally in Hershey, Pa., Dec. 10, 2019. Photo by Mark Makela /Getty Images VANCOUVER, Wash. — The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favour…

A last-ditch effort by Kevin McCarthy to save his flailing bid to lead the House could be a gift to Donald Trump, whose fate over his role in the January 6 Capitol riot rests in the hands of the incoming GOP majority. In a series of calls with Republican colleagues…

Donald Trump spent several years fighting tooth and nail to hide his tax returns from the public, but late last week, the former president simply lacked the ability to prevent their disclosure. The House Ways and Means Committee, having prevailed in the courts, obtained the materials, redacted private information, and…

Democrats released six years of Donald Trump’s income-tax returns on Friday, providing further insight into the former president’s tax situation. Trump and his wife, Melania, paid $0 in income taxes for 2020, according to a report released late Tuesday by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.  The nonpartisan committee’s findings…

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and former President Donald Trump’s 2024 senior adviser Boris Epshteyn slammed the New York Times on Sunday for portraying Trump in a Saturday hit piece as distrustful of the New York state congresswoman, despite the fact Stefanik and Trump speak with one another multiple times a week. The Times article,…