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Just one vote short of becoming speaker of the House, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy stood up from his chair and asked the defiant Matt Gaetz to change his vote from “present” to “McCarthy.”

WASHINGTON — Republican Kevin McCarthy achieved his long-held ambition of becoming House speaker early Saturday after quelling a rebellion by GOP conservative hardliners, but at the cost of further weakening his precarious position within a sharply divided party.

Twitter owner's complaints about the App Store echo those by other business leaders and some lawmakers.

GOP governors' ploy highlights the value of giving states the power to issue their own migration visas. It can simultaneously ease labor shortages, reduce disorder at the border, enable more migrants to escape poverty and oppression, and help restore the original meaning of the Constitution.

The ultra-conservative group is so far refusing to back Kevin McCarthy for speaker.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers defended a bill to rein in big technology companies, signaling that momentum is building for the first major piece of legislation to curb the power of giant online platforms.

WASHINGTON — David Cicilline was late getting into antitrust, at least for him.

The clock is ticking down on the bipartisan effort in Washington as summer recess and then midterms loom.

If Democrats lose control in the midterms, as most election handicappers expect, it could spell trouble for the push to rein in Big Tech.

An onlooker reportedly feared it would “escalate beyond the verbal cage match” before another Republican stepped in

Republicans are trying to portray the Biden Administration as wanting to abolish all immigration enforcement to benefit non-white migrants