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Darrin Bell was arrested in Sacramento Wednesday, after over 130 videos were found on an account allegedly linked to him.

Among Bell's cartoons was a 2022 drawing entitled "The Groomer", which showed what looked like an elephant-like man facing ... making jabs at the GOP for its response to the Los Angeles wildfires ...

Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, political observers — us included — wondered whether the Republican-controlled Senate would sign off on these controversial nominees.

John Hoeven, R-N.D., puts it. Republicans in that chamber expect to mark up their budget resolution as soon as next week, as the House GOP remains locked in an intraparty struggle over its version.

As GOP hardliners spent the weekend pushing party leaders to cut deeper into Medicaid in an effort to advance Donald Trump’s tax and border agenda, swing-district Republicans have been warning ...

Senator Mitch McConnell broke with his fellow Republicans again by voting "no" on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as HHS Secretary.

The fight over the North Carolina Supreme Court race is just a preliminary test run, foreshadowing a far bigger “elephant” in ...

This year, under pressure from conservative House Republicans, the GOP is planning to include substantial cuts in federal spending to the legislation to extend the tax cuts passed during Trump’s ...

Republican senators say they want to convince President Trump to support their plan to take the lead on a budget reconciliation package when they meet with him at Mar-a-Lago on Friday. Republican ...

told reporters after the roughly three-hour meeting. Factions within the House GOP are still wrestling with what the budget’s “instructions” for the reconciliation bill will look like.