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With Mr. McCarthy elected, he immediately turned to swearing in the 434 members of the House to officially seat the 118th Congress. Republicans announced that they would wait until Monday to consider...

Curtis Bethany, a councilman for the city, said Newport News was dealing with “unchartered” territory. “I’ve never heard of a 6-year-old going to school with a loaded gun.”Incidents at schools involving a...

The Oklahoma City police arrested on Wednesday the mother of the teenager responsible for the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and charged her with threatening a man.The woman,...

One of the world’s most active volcanoes, Kilauea in Hawaii, has resumed erupting after nearly a monthlong pause in activity, scientists said.Just after 4:30 p.m. local time on Thursday, a glow was...

WASHINGTON — The longtime partner of a Capitol Police officer who died after the Jan. 6 attack sued former President Donald J. Trump and two Capitol rioters on Thursday, arguing that his...

Plus, Democrats held rock-solid control of the House for four decades before 1994 with their large majorities, allowing the certainty of who was speaker to be settled long before the pro forma...

As Congress slogged through its third day of paralysis and into its eighth vote for speaker, there was one man trying hard to avoid being part of the story even as he...

Another bout of rain, wind and snow was expected across large portions of California on Thursday, as a powerful winter storm moved eastward across the state, disrupting the power grid and threatening...

And with more storms on the horizon, the mountains could see more rain that may lead to flooding.“Now that we have a saturated snowpack, we’re probably not going to get a lot...

(Mr. Long is not a congressman, since the last Congress adjourned for a final time on Tuesday, even though Representative-elect Eric Burlison, the Republican who won the race to succeed him, has...