Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a possible contender for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, broke with his rivals Sunday night by announcing he will not object to the counting of electoral votes on Jan. 6. MORE
GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas objected to seating 67 elected House members from battleground states today, in response to his colleagues that plan to object to certifying the presidential election results. Roy said “it MORE
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris called out President Donald Trump during a campaign rally on Sunday for pressuring Georgia’s secretary of state to change the 2020 election results. “Have y’all heard about that recorded conversation? Well, MORE
The top House Republican has quietly blessed an effort by conservative lawmakers to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory when a joint session of Congress meets later this week, even as other top congressional Republicans are raising alarms MORE
NU††ER WA†CH Nunes is a close ally of the president, and one of Trump’s most vocal supporters in his quest to undermine the Justice Department’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. During MORE
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was reelected leader of the chamber on Sunday, continuing her control of the majority at a time of questions about the path ahead for Congress and who may take the gavel MORE
On Fox News Sunday morning, Senator Ted Cruz said critics need to tone down the rhetoric, that Republicans have a responsibility to follow the law. “This is already a volatile situation. It’s like a tinderbox MORE
In extraordinary hour-long call, Trump says, ‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’ President Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in an MORE
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine wouldn’t endorse Republican efforts to overturn the election results, but he thinks there is a problem with voter confidence. CNN’s Jake Tapper told DeWine it was because those voters have been MORE
Vice President Pence’s chief of staff said in a statement on Saturday that the vice president “welcomes” an effort by some lawmakers to “raise objections” on Jan. 6, when Congress meets to certify the Electoral MORE
You’ve undoubtedly seen and heard the phrases in commercials since the pandemic began.“We live in unprecedented times.” “In these challenging, difficult times.” “We’re in this together.” According to one university, that’s gone on for long MORE
I’m kinda liking the combo, 01-02-21 better. Regardless, this is only the second time thus far that I’ve typed or written the new year. Who am I kidding? I can’t write at this moment, or MORE
ATLANTA — President Trump took to Twitter Friday evening to make the unfounded assertion that Georgia’s two Senate races are “illegal and invalid,” an argument that could complicate his efforts to convince his supporters to turn out MORE
He grew up in Southern California and played college basketball at USC before being selected 10th overall by the Boston Celtics in the 1972 draft. Westphal won an NBA title with the Celtics in 1974 MORE
The Supreme Court is being asked to hear Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., involving a student’s freedom of speech while off school grounds. In urging the justices to hear the case, the school district MORE
“There is much we don’t know about the new COVID-19 variant—but everything we know so far suggests a huge danger.” A new variant of the coronavirus is spreading across the globe. It was first identified MORE
Members of the far-right group the Proud Boys will attend Washington, D.C., rallies for President Trump on Jan. 6 “incognito,” with leaders of the group saying they will dress in “all BLACK” to mimic the MORE
GOP Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas), Ron Johnson (Wis.), James Lankford (Okla.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Kennedy (La.), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) and Mike Braun (Ind.) and Sens.-elect Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.), Roger Marshall (Kan.), Bill Hagerty (Tenn.) MORE
In a major departure from vaccine rollouts around the world, the United Kingdom announced this week it would change its vaccine distribution plan to prioritize giving first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, even if it means delaying second doses. MORE
Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger of Illinois fired back at Fox News’ Mark Levin on New Year’s Eve after the host called for his defeat in the next GOP primary. Levin called Kinzinger a “very devious MORE
The judge’s Friday night ruling tosses out what many election law experts considered a far-fetched theory to challenge the formal mechanism by which President-elect Joe Biden will be affirmed as the winner of the race MORE
With so many crazy things happening, sometimes things fall through the cracks. Here are some headlines that you may find interesting and worth discussing. Happy New Year, everyone. Ciao, ciao 2020! We finally know the MORE
We’ve officially turned the page on 2020, but almost like an epilogue to a horror novel, there was one more name to add in the annals of artists lost in the painfully ugly year that MORE
Some guests paid up to $1,000 per ticket for the New Year’s Eve superspreader at Mar-a-Lago, but they at least got plenty of entertainment for their buck even without their Comrade-in-Chief. Instead of their father, MORE
Trump’s veto forced Republicans to decide whether to defy the President in support of legislation that sets defense policy for the country. The legislation, however, originally passed both the House and Senate with veto-proof majorities MORE