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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – FEBRUARY 09: U.S. President Donald Trump walks onto the field prior to Super Bowl LIX between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles at Caesars Superdome on February 09, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Costly loss for sports team owners embedded in Trump tax bill

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – FEBRUARY 11: Steve Bannon, former advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks to members of the media as he departs Manhattan Criminal Court after a hearing on February 11, 2025 in New York City. Bannon is expected to plead guilty in a fraud case alleging that he misled donors who gave money toward building a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. He would avoid prison time in the plea deal in exchange for a three-year conditional discharge sentence, and he will not have to pay any restitution of his own to donor victims. The trial was slated to start on March 4th. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Steve Bannon, US hospitals join GOP rebellion over Medicaid cuts

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WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 28: U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks during a weekly news conference May 28, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. McCarthy held news conference to fill questions from members of the press. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

House Speaker McCarthy wants Biden to accept a 8% spending cut and a border wall to avert a government shutdown

By Erik Wasson, Billy House, and others

Representative Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, right, speaks with Representative Dan Bishop, a Republican from North Carolina, left, during a markup of “Protecting Our Kids Act” in Washington, D.C., US, on Thursday, June 2, 2022. The markup comes following another mass shooting Wednesday where four people were killed at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Hard-line Republicans are threatening to take their revenge and oust House Speaker McCarthy after he brokered a debt ceiling deal

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House Republicans

House Republicans mock Janet Yellen’s ‘Ouija board’ on the X-date and ‘manufactured crisis’ of America defaulting for the first time in history

By Anna Edgerton, Billy House, and others

UNITED STATES – MAY 17: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., conducts a news conference with house and senate Republicans on the “debt crisis,” on the west terrace of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, May 17, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Debt limit talks stalled as McCarthy says White House has ‘moved backwards’ since Republican walk-out

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George Santos

Kevin McCarthy is struggling to get House Republicans behind his debt ceiling bill

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Kevin McCarthy

Kevin McCarthy seeks to reassure Wall Street about U.S. debt default but won’t pass a ‘no string-attached debt limit increase’

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WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 20: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) attends a House Republican Conference news conference as members pack the stage on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Kevin McCarthy is elected House speaker after a historic 4 days of Republican infighting

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Donald Trump

FBI affidavit for search warrant of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate made public after judge ordered Justice Department to unseal document

By Erik Larson, Zoe Tillman, and others

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 24: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talks to repoorters minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v Wade, which guaranteed a woman’s right to an abortion, in the Capitol Visitors Center on June 24, 2022 in Washington, DC. The court ruled 6-3 in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health, overturning a 50-year precedent and sending abortion regulation back to the states. “Today, the Republican-controlled Supreme Court has achieved the GOP’s dark and extreme goal of ripping away women’s right to make their own reproductive health decisions,” Pelosi said (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

China holds live-fire drills near Taiwan as Pelosi heads to Asia. The U.S. should beware a ‘high-voltage’ line it ‘cannot step on,’ one commentator warns

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Steve Bannon

Bannon agrees to testify to Capitol riot investigators: ‘He himself warned that ‘all hell’ would break loose on Jan. 6. He’s clearly an important witness’

By Billy House, Victoria Cavaliere, and others

OTTAWA, ON- FEBRUARY 18 – A trucker is dragged from his truck. Police move a line of protesters from the intersection at Sussex and Rideau Streets towards Wellington Street Snow covers the protest convoy. Ottawa Police handed out papers telling the truckers to leave or face arrest there was no movement on Wellington Street in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa. February 18, 2022. The Freedom Convoy is protesting a variety of mandates and measures that were put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19. (

Capitol girding for potential ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest at State of the Union

By Zach C. Cohen, Billy House, and others

WASHINGTON D.C., USA – JANUARY 6: US President Donald Trumps supporters gather outside the Capitol building in Washington D.C., United States on January 06, 2021. Pro-Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol as lawmakers were set to sign off Wednesday on President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory in what was supposed to be a routine process headed to Inauguration Day.

Twitter and Facebook parent Meta among companies subpoenaed in Jan. 6 riot probe

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Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows

Former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to cooperate with Capitol riot investigation

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