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House Speaker Mike Johnson gave himself a pat on the back on Wednesday as he defended his tenure from critics including firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Johnson told reporters at an impromptu news conference that his speakership term was among the most difficult ever.

Former president Donald Trump and his allies like Sen. Lindsey Graham and other Republicans are “happy to change the rules” before an election as long as they’re the ones that benefit, The Bulwark’s Will Saletan wrote in an article critical of the GOP’s recent attempt to change Nebraska’s electoral system.

“All they care about is winning,” Saletan wrote in an article published Wednesday. “And the proof of their insincerity is what they just attempted in Nebraska.”

The mayor of New York City has reportedly been indicted in a federal corruption probe.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that the indictment against Eric Adams remained sealed. It wasn't immediately known what charges he faces.

Vice President Kamala Harris jabbed former President Donald Trump on one of his signature campaign issues when she told an MSNBC host the former president is “just not very serious” about how he thinks about economic issues.

“Part of it is you don’t just throw around the idea of just tariffs across the board and that’s part of the problem with Donald Trump – frankly I’m going to, and I say this in all sincerity, he’s just not very serious about how he thinks about some of these issues and one must be serious and have a plan and a real plan that’s not just about some talking point ending in an exclamation at a political rally,” she told interview Stephanie Ruhle, host of "The 11th Hour."

Vice President Kamala Harris wants America to know there is no such thing as a little job — and she has experience behind a fast food joint's deep fryer to prove it.

Harris addressed a peculiar character attack from former President Donald Trump in her exclusive interview with MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle, who told the Democratic presidential nominee, "I want to ask you about a little job and a big job."

Vice President Kamala Harris pushed back at her MSNBC interviewer Wednesday evening over a controversial claim about former President Donald Trump.

"The 11th Hour host" Stephanie Ruhle grilled Harris about her new economic policy plan in an exclusive interview during which she tried to fact-check Harris — and found herself checked in return.

A new billboard greets drivers entering Colorado from the north with a reference to debunked claims peddled by Republicans including former President Donald Trump.

The billboard, placed near the Colorado-Wyoming state line on the busy Interstate 25, reads, "Venezuela Ahead, BE PREPARED," 9News.com reported.

A conservative Wisconsin mayor on the job for five months is at the center of a criminal investigation after he removed a ballot drop box from city hall before voters in Wausau could use it.

Marathon County District Attorney Theresa Wetzsteon, a Democrat, said Wednesday she is investigating Wausau Mayor Doug Diny’s move after Kaitlyn Bernarde, the city clerk, filed a report upon discovering the drop box missing Monday, according to a report in The Washington Post. In a photo he provided to the Wausau Pilot & Review, Diny is seen wearing a hard hat, gloves and Department of Public Works jacket as he carts the city’s drop box away.

The special counsel in former President Donald Trump's election subversion case is expected to submit an "oversized" brief this week, and experts say it's "not only appropriate" — but necessary.

As far as Trump's White House lawyer Ty Cobb sees it, having special counsel Jack Smith outline his case in 180 pages will not impact the 2020 election case before the Washington, D.C. district court, according to Salon's Russell Payne.

A Louisiana lawmaker quietly deleted a social media post dubbing Haitians pet-eating "thugs" after the House's Black Caucus chair told him to take it down, according to a new report.

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) faced backlash after he echoed former President Donald Trump's and Sen. J.D. Vance's debunked and condemned claim — currently wreaking havoc in Springfield, Ohio — that Haitian immigrants have eaten local pets, Punchbowl News reported Melanie Zanona reported Wednesday.

After Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a major economic speech Wednesday, billionaire entrepreneur and "Shark Tank" investor Mark Cuban called former President Donald Trump — whom he's known for decades — nothing more than a salesman, and said Harris is the one in charge.

Cuban was on hand at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and spoke to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace after Harris' speech. Cuban walked through his experience with the ex-president.