Mike Johnson retains gavel after Trump convinces two reps to change votes - President-elect Donald Trump’s ally initially struggled to retain gavel as Congress reconvened on Friday ...

Good morning and welcome to The Independent ’s live coverage as the 119th Congress convenes in Washington DC and the House of Representatives elects its speaker, with Donald Trump’s Republican ally ...

Johnson can only afford to lose two votes from the Republican majority if he wants to remain speaker of the House ...

The 39-year-old from Cincinnati, rocking a pretentious pompadour, got carried away with himself last week. Vivek Ramaswamy ...

The fallout of last month’s high-stakes election and recent battles within Congress are offering early clues of what will set ...

The latest example came when Donald Trump sided with Elon Musk over visas for high-tech workers, going against many in the ...

Donald Trump has two words for his controversial Cabinet nominees: Be quiet. The president-elect’s chief of staff, Susie ...

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MAGA masculinity is such a hazy and contradictory concept that it mostly gets defined by what it's not. The incoherence is ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, received President-elect Donald Trump’s “complete” endorsement Monday, ...

Donald Trump’s recent endorsement of the H-1B visa program has amplified internal divisions within his MAGA coalition, ...

Trump voiced his support for Johnson Monday, just two weeks after the speaker went toe-to-toe with several House Republicans ...