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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans vaulted Rep. Elise Stefanik into the ranks of House leadership Friday, electing an ardent Donald Trump defender in hopes of calming their searing civil war over the deposed Rep. WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans vaulted Rep. Elise Stefanik into the ranks of House leadership Friday, electing an…

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was not a supporter of former President Donald Trump’s quest to overturn the election. But he has declined to weigh in on the party’s ongoing purge of anti-Trump Republicans, because it distracts from the issue he thinks should unite the party: opposing President…

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Politics "Martha’s Vineyard, an absolutely wonderful place, will never be the same." Wind turbines near Block Island, Rhode Island, one of only two offshore wind farms operating in the United States. Chang W. Lee / The New York Times Donald Trump says Martha’s Vineyard will “never be the same” after…

During his monologue on Tuesday, Stephen Colbert kicked things off with a lengthy look at the latest COVID vaccine news, and the highlight was easily a gag where he was hilariously inept attempt to use new slang and eventually devolved into slang from when Colbert was in his teens. It…

Jimmy Kimmel seems to have identified a very specific way California Republican and wannabe governor Caitlyn Jenner is very much like a certain disgraced ex-president. Jenner disclosed this week that she didn’t bother voting in the 2020 election. Instead, she just went to a country club a played golf. “Out…

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In 2021, anything can be turned into culture-war fodder. Republicans are hoarding Goya beans and Aunt Jemima syrup to own the libs. The Muppets have been canceled. Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head, too. A Michelin-starred restaurant in Manhattan eliminating meat from its pricey menu? That, my friends, is cancel…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top House Republican Kevin McCarthy publicly endorsed Rep. Elise Stefanik for the post of No. 3 leader, cementing party support of the Donald Trump loyalist over Rep. Liz Cheney, an outspoken critic of the former president for promoting discredited claims that the 2020 election was stolen. House…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Allegiance to a lie has become a test of loyalty to Donald Trump and a means of self-preservation for Republicans. Trump’s discredited allegations about a stolen election did nothing to save his presidency when courtrooms high and low, state governments and ultimately Congress — meeting in the…