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Several high-profile House Democrats are poised to be removed from their coveted committee assignments as Republicans take control of the lower chamber and usher in a new era of priorities, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) confirmed on Monday.

An 82-year-old Walmart employee was able to retire due to the generosity sparked by one man’s TikTok fundraiser.

Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer for the Trump Organization, is expected to be sent to Rikers Island jail in New York after he received his sentence for his participation in operating a tax fraud scheme at the former president's real estate company for 15 years.

Republican lawmakers who obstructed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s path to the gavel secured broad concessions to their demands for how the House should conduct business.

South Carolina lawmakers are expected to renew bipartisan efforts to legalize medical marijuana in the state this year.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) finally won the speaker’s gavel following a week of painstaking negotiations in which the public watched the GOP at war with itself on the floor of the House chamber during the course of more than a dozen inconclusive votes.

More than a dozen soldiers were reportedly questioned last week as part of a drug investigation at Fort Bragg.

A 5-year-old boy was swept away by floodwaters Monday and the death toll from the violent storms rose to 14 as Californians face extreme flooding that has left thousands without power.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not end his war in Ukraine until he’s “convinced” he can’t win, according to former U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan.

The surge of rioting in the capital of Brazil landed, as many issues do, at the feet of President Joe Biden.