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Georgia Republicans have decided to cancel a plan to redraw the state's congressional districts to create more Republican seats, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump's nationwide gerrymandering agenda.

The plan was supposed to be debated at the special session that begins today, and would only have applied to elections starting in 2028. Republicans were likely planning to delete a majority-Black district in the southwest of the state, and possibly another in Atlanta.

A new Alabama lawsuit seeks to knock U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville off the November ballot for governor, using his own words against him.

The complaint, filed Tuesday in Montgomery County Circuit Court by Brooke Lynn Dorgan and Justin Jude LeBlanc — two Alabama military veterans — invokes Alabama's quo warranto statutes, a legal mechanism used to challenge whether someone is entitled to hold public office, and names Tuberville and Alabama Secretary of State Wesley Harrison Allen as defendants.

President Donald Trump canceled Jay Clayton's Director of National Intelligence confirmation hearing via a Truth Social post Wednesday morning. But Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Tom Cotton (R-AR) signaled Republicans will proceed regardless.

Clayton was nominated to succeed Tulsi Gabbard after bipartisan pressure forced Trump to abandon Bill Pulte, a partisan loyalist without intelligence credentials, as acting DNI. In a social media post on X, Cotton stated the hearing will continue "unless the president directs him not to appear or withdraws his nomination." He also noted, Trump's social media post lacks formal authority.

Administration officials working with Vice President JD Vance have expanded their efforts to weed out fraud, moving on from Medicare to unemployment insurance in all fifty states.

According to Wall Street Journal reporting, acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling sent a letter to state governors warning the administration would use "every available tool" to protect taxpayer money. That includes a novel threat: "withholding administrative funds from states" for the first time in history.

A candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump has withdrawn from his congressional race following a texting scandal with a woman who was not his wife.

Jackson Lahmeyer, a Tulsa megachurch pastor and founder of Pastors for Trump, told people he plans to drop out of Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District Republican primary, NOTUS reporter Reese Gorman reported, citing two sources. The sources cautioned he could still change his mind.

President Donald Trump's plans for regime change at the Federal Reserve may not go according to his plan, one analyst warned on Wednesday.

Trump waged a pressure campaign against former Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell during the president's second term because of Powell's reluctance to lower interest rates, as the U.S. economy continued to grapple with stubborn inflation. That fight ended when Powell's term as chairman expired in May, and Trump's choice to replace him, Kevin Warsh, took over.

A former Trump administration official is warning that the president's pattern of favoring authoritarian leaders over traditional democratic allies has hardened into something far more consequential than a personal quirk.

Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, published an op-ed for The i Paper tracing the warning signs back to 2018, when President Donald Trump arrived late to a G7 summit in Canada, lectured allied leaders on trade, and publicly disavowed a joint communiqué he had just signed – all while calling for Russia's reinstatement into the group.

President Donald Trump abandoned Jay Clayton's Director of National Intelligence confirmation hearing Wednesday and announced Bill Pulte would remain as the agency's acting director.

The President lacks the authority to cancel Senate meetings, according to NBC News' Chief White House Correspondent, Garrett Haake.

A former close friend of a candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump has confirmed that sex scandal allegations against the would-be congressman are "how I remember it."

Matt Hilsabeck, a former police partner and business associate of Mark Lamb, the Trump-backed Republican running for Arizona's Fifth Congressional District on a platform of "faith, family and freedom," spoke on the record to The Arizona Republic to corroborate an ongoing investigation into the former Pinal County sheriff's alleged yearslong history of sexting, nude photo sharing, and intimate encounters outside his marriage.

Fox News’ Peter Doocy was interrupted Wednesday by President Donald Trump when pressing for answers on the tentative peace deal Washington reached with Tehran last weekend, a deal that has sparked outrage among the more hawkish wing of the Republican Party.

Details of the deal, which is reportedly a 14-point memorandum of understanding, include an agreement that the United States would lift all sanctions on Iran and help the Middle East nation gain access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund. Critics have noted the deal’s similarities to provisions in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal reached by former President Barack Obama, which also saw the unfreezing of Iranian funds, a provision Trump had frequently criticized.