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Clarice Schillinger, the unsuccessful Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Pennsylvania and a conservative "parents rights" activist, was arrested for punching a teenager, harassing and hosting an underage drinking party, USA Today reported.

The incident allegedly unfolded at her daughter's birthday party, according to the case filed in October. Schillinger has denied all of the charges through her lawyer.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to "act quickly" to uphold Donald Trump's ban from the state's primary ballot.

Griswold made her first comments about the Supreme Court appeal in a social media post on Thursday.

During the slow news week between Christmas and New Year's Day, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley made herself the center of attention by being unable to answer a simple question about the primary cause of the Civil War.

During a town hall in Berlin, New Hampshire, on Wednesday night, the South Carolina Republican who has been surging in the polls for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination flubbed the question from a voter, and then compounded the problem by demanding, "What do you want me to say about slavery?" when pressed before adding: "Next question."

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made a risky bet on his Republican presidential campaign, and now he's throwing his allies under the bus and it blows up in his face, according to a report.

The GOP governor's campaign turned over substantial funds and many established responsibilities to the outside group Never Back Down, but that political action committee appears to be on the brink of imploding with the resignation of its chief architect Jeff Roe, reported Real Clear Politics.

Donald Trump's lawyers are again asking a federal judge to allow them access to classified materials that Special Counsel Jack Smith wants to redact, Newsweek reported Thursday.

Trump faces 37 charges related to his alleged storing of classified materials at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

By the time 2024 arrives, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will be gone from Congress. But McCarthy's resignation wasn't the only bombshell that rocked the GOP's single-digit House majority in 2023.

Plagued by scandals, former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was expelled from the House on December 1. And House Republicans are entering 2024 facing a series of special elections.

A Mississippi sheriff back in 2019 ordered his deputies to physically attack a suspect they were engaged in a high-speed chase with. One the deputies caught up with the suspect and did exactly that, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Marquise Tillman was left with a fractured eye socket and broken bones in his face and chest. Clarke County Sheriff Todd Kemp denied giving the order but, as was revealed in Tillman's lawsuit, could plainly be heard giving the order in a recording. The accusation was backed up by testimony from four of his deputies.

TOPEKA — A critic of now-rescinded COVID-19 mask mandates filed a federal lawsuit against the Lawrence public school district superintendent and school board members to challenge constitutionality of his banishment from district property and a prohibition against his in-person commentary at district board meetings.

Stilwell attorney Linus Baker raised First and 14th amendment arguments in a filing in U.S. District Court on behalf of Justin Spiehs, an unsuccessful candidate for Douglas County Commission. Baker asserted in the court document Spiehs’ speech rights were violated because Lawrence school district officials didn’t endorse his political views. The attorney said Spiehs’ right to equal protection under the Constitution was violated because other people with similar views weren’t comparably punished by district officials.

A full-time employee of the Trump administration appears to have taken part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to a new analysis.

USA Today reported that Oliver Krvaric, who was working at the time as a "confidential assistant" for the Office of Personnel Management, can be seen in photos and videos crossing the threshold of the west door of the upper west terrace of the U.S. Capitol immediately ahead of far-right influencer "Baked Alaska."

A Christmas week filing by special counsel Jack Smith was a savvy move that will force the former president's attorneys to either abandon a defense strategy or show their cards — which likely won't be well received by the court, an expert wrote Thursday.

That is the opinion of former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance after reading Smith's latest filing that asks the court to bar the former president and his legal team from submitting certain evidence, including conspiracy theories.