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The fallout from New York City Mayor Eric Adam’s stunning indictment on fraud and bribery charges continued to reverberate Thursday when a top Republican in Congress seized the opportunity to link Democrats as a whole to the “cult of corruption rampant in the New York Democratic Party.”

House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) vowed that Democrats would pay at the ballot box this November in an attack less than 24 hours after news of Adams’ indictment broke. The sharp rebuke from Stefanik served as a preview of how New York Republicans plan to leverage the mayor’s legal troubles against other Democrats with less than six weeks to go until Election Day, Politico reported.

Former President Donald Trump stunned onlookers Thursday when he refused to yank his endorsement of a MAGA Republican linked to porn site commentary expressing appreciation of slavery and Nazis.

Trump fielded questions from reporters in New York City — not in Palm Beach, where his neighbors are under multiple tropical storm and hurricane warnings — who asked his views on the damning CNN report about North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson.

Claudia Conway had a dark message for her mother, a one-time adviser to former President Donald Trump, when she appeared on Fox Nation's "Here's the Deal with Kellyanne Conway" Thursday.

"You had more rights when you were my age," the 19-year-old told her mother, "than I do now."

Federal prosecutors plan to file criminal charges stemming from an Iranian hack of top Trump campaign advisers, according to a report.

ABC News, citing sources familiar with the matter, said the charges will be announced Friday in connection with the hack, in which Iranians accessed data and files from email accounts of Trump's advisers.

In a message from prison, former President Donald Trump’s one-time chief strategist Steve Bannon urged supporters to forget so-called undecided voters and instead focus on convincing people who are unsure if they will participate in November’s election to vote for Trump.

“The reality is that there is no significant group of ‘undecided’ voters left regarding the candidates themselves, Bannon wrote in an op-ed for The National Pulse published Thursday. “People know where they stand when it comes to President Trump and his opponents. What remains unclear for some is whether they will actually participate in the voting process.”

The special counsel prosecuting former President Donald Trump's election subversion case has filed sealed documents containing previously unseen evidence, according to a report.

Jack Smith's team filed the documents as of 4:40 p.m. Eastern Time, Peter Carr, spokesman for the special counsel office, told CNN.

Republicans fed up with former President Donald Trump are quietly uniting behind a political operator who barely escaped his moment in the MAGA movement crosshairs, according to a new report.

The former lawmaker is laying the groundwork for the Republican Party to return to its pre-populism days should Trump fail to reclaim the White House this year, Semafor reported Thursday.

A lack of Secret Service personnel forced former President Donald Trump’s campaign to move an outdoor rally in Wisconsin to a smaller indoor arena in the battleground state this weekend.

The rally was to take place outside an airport on Saturday. Its relocation came as the Secret Service faced shortages while providing security for foreign dignitaries in the U.S. for the United Nations General Assembly’s annual meeting, CBS News reported. It will instead be held at an arena in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, according to the Trump campaign.

Michigan's top Republican reportedly warned a fundraising crowd that Democrats will "steal some votes," echoing former President Donald Trump's so-called "big lie" — a false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from the MAGA leader through massive voter and electoral fraud.

Pete Hoekstra, chairman of the state's Republican Party, made the remark at a Monday fundraiser in Farmington Hills for, The Detroit News reported Thursday. Hoekstra was referencing a potentially tight Senate race, according to a recording obtained by the newspaper.

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), a surrogate for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, predicted that vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance would have a "knockout" against Democratic nominee Tim Walz at Tuesday night's debate.

During an interview on Real America's Voice Thursday, host Charlie Kirk spoke with Donalds about the upcoming vice presidential debate.

Republicans in Congress have been quietly ignoring former President Donald Trump's "ridiculous" demands based on "terrible" strategic thinking, a new political analysis contends.

MSNBC columnist Steve Benen argued Thursday that the U.S. avoided a government shutdown — for which Trump repeatedly and strongly lobbied — because Republicans were once again unimpressed with the strange reasoning behind the demand.

Right-wing cable news network Newsmax has reportedly agreed to a settlement with voting technology company Smartmatic over false claims that it aired in the wake of the 2020 election that accused the firm of "stealing" the election from Donald Trump.

CNN's Marshall Cohen reports that Newsmax and Smartmatic came to terms "in a last-minute agreement to avoid a high-stakes trial that posed a significant financial risk to the cable outlet."