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House Speaker Paul Ryan’s retirement could trigger other retirements by Republican legislators not eager to face angry voters in the fall.   GROUND GAME A speaker hasn’t done so in 116 years.  House Speaker Paul Ryan has announced he will not run for reelection, fueling worries for Republicans that they may lose their House majority in the fall.  The warrant also sought evidence of whether Michael D. Cohen tried to suppress damaging information on the president before the election.

Senate Majority Leader MORE (R-Ky.) on Tuesday threw cold water on the idea of clawing back spending from the $1.3 trillion omnibus bill approved by Congress last month. McConnell said he was open to a “discussion” about the idea, but noted that the omnibus was a bipartisan deal and appeared skeptical a rescission package would go anywhere. He added while the omnibus “was larger than most Republicans would like … it was a bipartisan agreement.” House Majority Leader MORE have discussed using the Budget Act of 1974 to rescind spending from th

Washington is on edge over the possibility that MORE or senior members of the Justice Department. Some Republicans, as well as Democrats and independent observers, share the concern. “He has entered a period of impulsiveness at DEFCON 5,” said one Republican strategist with ties to the White House. “We’re in uncharted territory, where anything can happen.”

Facebook CEO MORE offered a vehement defense of his company on Tuesday during a lengthy Senate hearing, the first time the chief of the nation’s largest social media company has ever appeared before a congressional panel. The 33-year-old Zuckerberg emerged largely unscathed despite sometimes-aggressive questioning from lawmakers that went well beyond the Cambridge Analytica controversy that sparked the appearance to issues including data privacy and perceived bias on the social media platform against conservatives. “It’s clear now that we didn’t do enough to prevent

MORE as special counsel leading the Russia probe, the White House said Tuesday. “He certainly believes that he has the power to do so,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, adding that Trump is not acting now to fire him.  Sanders said Trump believes Mueller has “gone too far” after FBI agents executed a raid on the office of Trump's personal attorney in part based on a referral from the special counsel’s office.  The White House’s stance on firing Mueller has been rejected by many legal experts who say Trump does not have the power to fire the sp

MORE headed toward a crisis point on Tuesday, with the White House saying Trump has legal authority to fire the special counsel. Republicans unnerved by the president’s anger in public and private sought to talk him down, fearing a “Saturday night massacre”-style series of firings harking back to the Nixon era was growing more likely. GOP lawmakers fear presidential firings of Mueller, Attorney General MORE would cause chaos in Washington and dim Republican hopes of holding their congressional majorities. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman <

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Special Counsel Vladimir Putin as a casual chance encounter “over a beer,” sources told ABC News. Well-connected Lebanese-American businessman George Nader, a key witness given limited immunity by Mueller, has been interviewed seven times by prosecutors on a wide range of subjects.

President Donald Trump both literally and figuratively threw out his prepared remarks at a West Virginia roundtable event that was supposed to be about tax reform. The president instead launched into a freewheeling riff on several unrelated topics, including extended remarks on illegal immigration in which he hearkened back to controversial and Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen has since said the president was talking about the military building wall

A day after President the Pentagon had few answers Thursday about how the call-up would take place or how many Guardsmen could be involved. Officials did indicate that the troops would likely play mainly a support role as they've done in the past, but because planning is only in its initial stages, could not provide a timeline for their arrival, or say whether they would be armed. Asked by reporters aboard Air Force One Thursday how many National Guard members he wants on the border, the president responded, “Anywhere from 2,