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Mike Johnson was re-elected speaker of the House last week despite a rumored uprising against him, and MSNBC's Jen Psaki said that showed the relative weakness within the Republican Party's congressional majorities.

Nine GOP lawmakers voted against the speaker at one point during Friday's election — the same number needed to trigger a vote to remove him — and the former White House press secretary published a new column urging Democrats to seize on the majority's dysfunction.

Journalist Anne Applebaum has noticed an odd international political alliance forming between far-right nationalists and traditionally left-wing wellness warriors who share a mutual loathing of the principles of the Enlightenment.

Writing in The Atlantic, Applebaum uses the recent example of Călin Georgescu, the Romanian presidential candidate who seems to have gamed TikTok algorithms to nearly make himself the president.

Meta tech tycoon Mark Zuckerberg was raked over the coals as a "surrender monkey" by The Bulwark's Jonathan Last on Tuesday over his new spate of changes at his company that appear directly calculated to ingratiate himself to President-elect Donald Trump.

This comes after Zuckerberg paid a visit to Trump's estate at Mar-a-Lago, and as a number of tech billionaires are under fire — even from some Trump supporters — as their companies give millions to fund Trump's inauguration festivities.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) voiced his support of President-elect Donald Trump's suggestion to use military force to regain control of the Panama Canal while speaking to Fox Business host Larry Kudlow on Tuesday.

Tuberville has long complained that China has a growing influence over the canal and that ISIS was sneaking into the United States through an unsecured border by making their way from the Middle East to Panama and then heading north to the United States.

Donald Trump could be setting up congressional Republicans for an early failure by going for a big legislative victory right out of the gate.

The president-elect is pushing for one "powerful" reconciliation bill combining his biggest priorities to make sweeping changes to fiscal policy by using special rules regarding economic legislation that requires only half the Senate's approval and would not be subject to a Democratic filibuster, but Washington Post analyst Aaron Blake is doubting its passage.

President-elect Donald Trump continues to be fascinated by Greenland, which he thinks the United States should acquire from Denmark. This week, Trump sent his son, Donald Trump Jr., along with far-right activist Charlie Kirk, to visit the island off the coast of Canada.

Speaking to MSNBC on Tuesday, Democratic strategist Richard Goodstein said that this likely reminds foreign leaders of Trump's ignorance of foreign affairs.

Two bodies were found inside the landing gear well of a JetBlue aircraft that flew to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport in Florida from New York's JFK Airport, The New York Times reported.

The two bodies "were discovered during a routine post-flight maintenance assessment of the plane, the airline said. Paramedics pronounced the two people dead at the scene, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. It was unclear how long the people had been in the landing gear compartment," reported Ali Watkins.

A new report from the Department of Justice's inspector general shows that three of Donald Trump's officials may have worked to influence the 2020 election from their posts in the department.

Top officials at Trump's Justice Department may have tried to influence the election by pressing investigations into Democratic governors and then leaking private details about those investigations to right-wing news, ABC News reported Tuesday.

A right-wing media baron offers a possible hint of the future of the Republican Party's eventual post-Donald Trump future.

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), a 30-year-old who created one of Facebook’s most popular MAGA news sites, was sworn in last week as the GOP's youngest lawmaker and a staunch Trump loyalist. Extremism researcher Jared Holt examined his political rise in a new column for MSNBC.

A tragic situation went from bad to worse in Evansville, Illinois, after police who responded to complaints about animal neglect ended up shooting the dog they were summoned to help, WISH reported.

Officers "say animal control had been called 16 times with neglect concerns about the dog. Police say this led to a request for police to assist removing the dog from the premises," reported Jason Ronimous. After authorities had been at the premises for 30 minutes, "officers and animal control attempted to safely remove the dog and instructed its owner to leash the dog to walk it to the animal control vehicle."

Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's language changed drastically on Tuesday after President-elect Donald Trump answered questions about his fantasy of using "economic force" to take over Canada.

Trump spoke at Mar-a-Lago about his desire to make Canada a state. Trump told reporters he wouldn’t rule out using military action to regain control of the Panama Canal and acquire Greenland from Denmark. When asked if he would consider the same to obtain Canada, Trump replied, “No — economic force.”