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Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) may be the first leader to have an actual floor fight for his speaker vote in nearly 100 years, said Tara Palmeri, Puck News senior political reporter.

Speaking to MSNBC's Yasmin Vossoughian on Sunday, Palmeri explained that McCarthy had a few dozen, or so, members that didn't support him during the caucus vote. At the same time, he only has a very small majority. So he can't afford to lose even a hand full of votes.

The Moscow, Idaho police did a briefing Wednesday before Thanksgiving about the slaying of the 4 University of Idaho students to dispel myths about the murders that have been spreading online.

KREM News reported after the briefing that Police Captain Roger Lanier said that the investigators have been going through their suspect list and ruling out suspects. They've worked on ruling out the two roommates that also lived in the home and were seen on camera at a food truck the night of the incident.

A former Louisiana police chief turned himself in on Tuesday after a grand jury charged him with five felony counts of malfeasance in office, WBRZ reports.

Kenny Payne later bonded out of jail. He has been accused of offering to drop people's charges in exchange for sex. One of the counts is in regards to an incident where he asked a subordinate to delete text messages that he sent to a victim. He also reportedly asked Iberville Parish Sheriff Brett Stassi "to not conduct or to cease conducting an investigation of him."

Former federal prosecutor Paul Butler thinks that the fact the Justice Department is calling for former Vice President Mike Pence to sit down with them is an indication they're wrapping up their probe into Donald Trump's role in the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election

"Even if Mike Pence is agreeable to testify, Donald Trump would certainly try to slow-walk this by claiming executive privilege," Butler explained. "That is not a credible claim in this case for a few reasons. First of all, it's [President Joe] Biden's privilege, not Trump's executive privilege. It belongs to the current occupant of the White House. There's also a crime-fraud exception. You can't claim the privilege to try to cover up a crime by you or by somebody else. And also, Pence talked extensively about his interactions with Donald Trump in his recent book and so he waived it. You can't say I don't want to talk to a grand jury about it but write about it in a book."

Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake was still claiming that she could win the seat as of Wednesday morning while speaking to far-right activist Steve Bannon during his show.

"You're gonna win this!" Bannon proclaimed.

A Wednesday morning briefing by police on the Chesapeake, Virginia mass shooting at the local Walmart revealed further details about the incident.

In addition to the information revealed by police, WAVY-TV News and VICE are both reporting on some accounts posted on social media by people who say they were in the store during the shooting.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough went off on House minority leader Kevin McCarthy for "overselling" his threats to investigate various members of President Joe Biden's administration.

The California Republican has vowed to open a string of investigations of Biden and his family, as well as Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas -- whose resignation he demanded over a surge in undocumented migrants across the southern border -- and the "Morning Joe" host and his panelists ripped his flailing efforts to draw support from the GOP's right flank to become House speaker.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough gloated over Donald Trump's latest legal flop in front of a conservative appeals court.

The three-judge 11th District Court panel repeatedly expressed skepticism toward Trump attorney Jim Trusty's arguments and signaled an openness to voiding the appointment of a special master to oversee evidence seized from Mar-a-Lago, and the "Morning Joe" host said the former president had badly overplayed his hand.

At least seven people, including the gunman, were killed late Tuesday evening at a Walmart store in southeast Virginia.

Chesapeake police responded to the shooting at the retailer on Sam's Circle about 10:12 p.m. and found multiple victims dead inside the store and others wounded, reported NBC News.

Questions about the Supreme Court have surfaced in the past year after it was discovered that Justice Clarence Thomas' wife, Ginni, helped lobby lawmakers for the overthrow of the 2020 election. Since then it has been one scandal after another.

In the spring of 2022, Justice Samuel Alito's justification for eliminating Roe v. Wade case was leaked to the press, prompting Republicans to demand an investigation into who leaked it. A new report from the New York Times has revealed that Alito might have a history of leaking information about the rulings to allies.

A Michigan man has been arrested after threatening to murder FBI director Christopher Wray and California Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA). According to MSNBC, the man was mentally ill, but was motivated by QAnon conspiracy theories.

Reporting the breaking news, Chris Jansing cited new court documents as the source of the information.

Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor under special counsel Robert Mueller, predicted that an indictment of former President Donald Trump will likely come relatively soon for his decision to stash top-secret government documents at Mar-a-Lago.

Speaking to MSNBC on Tuesday, Weissmann predicted that things are going to start speeding up after the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel.

Former Donald Trump aide Alyssa Farrah Griffin doesn't think that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is going to make it to the top spot in the House, she told her colleagues on "The View" Tuesday.

Addressing McCarthy's threats to remove Democrats he doesn't like from congressional committees, Griffin explained that even if he gets elected as the Speaker, he still has no unilateral power to remove someone from a committee, it has to be a full vote from the House. There might not be enough people willing to make that move given the retribution and backlash it could cause them.