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The senator who challenged a hearing witness to a brawl in the U.S. Capitol said only "political correctness" stopped him from following through on his threat.

During the hearing, Mullin got into a back-and-forth with Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, in which Mullin challenged him to a fight and O'Brien expressed his willingness to take him up on it.

Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin (OK) nearly got into a fight with a hearing witness at the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, and he's refusing to back down.

When Teamsters President Sean O'Brien appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing, to review how unions help working families Mullin, who is from a Right to Work state and has long been a critic of unions, offered to fight him on the house floor.

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) suggested the FBI sent "ghost buses" filled with informants to incite the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.

At a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Wednesday, Higgins peppered FBI Director Christopher Wray with questions about his agency's role in Jan. 6.

Former President Donald Trump is headed for a legal reckoning like he has never seen before in 2024 as he mounts another bid for the White House, with multiple criminal trials all over the country.

Indeed, wrote analyst Harlan Ullman for United Press International on Wednesday, Trump is in a similar situation to that of an infamous New York mobster.

Donald Trump's attorneys have filed for a mistrial in the $250 million fraud case against his family business.

The former president's defense team filed a 30-page motion Wednesday morning focused on Judge Arthur Engoron's chief clerk Allison Greenfield, whom Trump has been forbidden to attack in a gag order after he claimed she was the "girlfriend" of Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer and was secretly directing the trial, reported The Daily Beast.

During an interview with Univision this month, Donald Trump said the so-called "weaponization" of federal law enforcement "could certainly happen in reverse" — suggesting that he could use government agencies to go after his political opponents if he's reelected.

Writing in The Bulwark Wednesday, Amanda Carpenter and Deana El-Mallawany said Trump's rhetoric about the weaponization of federal law enforcement against him will be his "next big election lie."

An expert witness called to testify by Donald Trump's own lawyers in his ongoing fraud trial told the court that lenders should have assumed the former president's financial statements were inaccurate.

Jason Flemmons, who qualified as an expert on accounting, explicitly called out accountant Donald Bender, who represented Trump at the firm Mazars USA and who testified for the prosecution that he would have wanted to see appraisals conducted by the Trump Organization, reported ABC News.

Former President Donald Trump has already lost his civil fraud case in New York after a summary judgment passed down before the trial began — and perhaps the only way now for him to save his business empire. is to try to reach a settlement deal with Attorney General Letitia James, who is seeking hundreds of millions in fines and the dissolution of the Trump Organization.

But assuming a settlement is even possible, that would come with risks of its own, a legal expert told Newsweek — and not just financially, but politically too.

House speaker Mike Johnson's election makes him the most powerful ally the Christian Right has had in decades, and a report says his rise reveals the anti-democratic faction within the evangelical movement has won out.

Johnson's elevation shows the "any means necessary" wing of the Christian Right now has a direct line to the elected official who's second in line to the presidency – "Praise God," trumpets right-wing Pastor Jim Garlow – and shows that evangelicals are moving away from pluralism, reported NPR.

During a recent interview, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) suggested that the founders' intent to separate church and state has been widely misunderstood and that government leaders should more openly express their faith in their work.

NBC News reported Tuesday that Johnson called the separation of church and state — which Thomas Jefferson called for in a letter to church leaders — a "misnomer." He added that the phrase wasn't in the U.S. Constitution, even though the First Amendment's establishment clause is widely interpreted as the founders' belief that the government should be seen as separate from any religious institution.

GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley made a proposal on Fox News Tuesday that has created a wave of criticism online: abolishing anonymous social media accounts.

The former South Carolina governor and ex-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations described anonymous social media accounts as a "national security threat" and proposed that platforms like X and Facebook be required to verify the identities of all users.

Failed Arizona gubernatorial nominee turned Senate candidate Kari Lake is best known for her refusal to accept she lost the 2022 election, combined with a series of unsuccessful lawsuits as she scrambled to get the results thrown out.

But she is now trying to put all that behind her, wrote former GOP strategist Tim Miller for The Bulwark, and present a softer, more moderate version of herself — at least to party officials.

Anti-Trump attorney George Conway this week said that former President Donald Trump knows that he has committed crimes and that he sees becoming president again as the only way to escape the clutches of justice.

Appearing on The Bulwark podcast, Conway broke down the psychology behind Trump's third presidential run, as well as the danger he posed to the rule of law in the United States.