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Editor's note: This article has been updated to confirm that the attack was "intentional" and left 30 people injured. It has also been updated to confirm that the suspect is dead.

A mass casualty incident occurred in New Orleans' French Quarter in the early morning hours of New Year's Day, according to several reports, in what was an "intentional" attack, Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick said during a Wednesday morning press conference.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has a message for Republican state legislators: Don’t mess with the Texas speaker’s race – or else.

The far-right attorney general – a staunch ally of President-elect Donald Trump – announced on New Year’s Eve that he would embark on a statewide tour of districts where incumbent Republican state representatives are reportedly working with Democratic lawmakers to elect a speaker who doesn’t have his support.

Junk food companies are starting to get nervous over how many Americans use GLP-1 medications to lose weight.

Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell walked through shocking details of the economic impact of drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic cited in a new study by Cornell University and Numerator.

Daniel Schuman, the executive director of the American Governance Institute and a former legislative attorney for the Congressional Research Service, is flagging a new change being enacted by the House Ethics Committee that he says amounts to a "New Year's Eve ethics massacre."

Writing on his Substack page, Schuman accuses both Republicans and Democrats on the committee of passing rule changes that make corruption easier to get away with.

Right-wing influencer Steve Bannon continued his assault against billionaire Elon Musk's push to expand H-1B visas for foreign workers.

On his Tuesday morning War Room broadcast, Bannon called out Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-chairs of President-elect Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency.

Donald Trump is failing to admit good news as he prepares to enter the White House for the second time — because it conflicts with his message of fear and anger, an MSNBC columnist wrote.

Violent crime — specifically homicide — has seen a dramatic plummet in recent years, wrote Paul Waldman.

A former Republican lawmaker caught a broadcast journalist off guard on Monday when he dropped a four-letter word while delivering a blunt assessment of how he believes the GOP-controlled Congress will operate next year.

The moment came when former Republican Virginia Rep. Denver Riggleman, who became a skeptic of Donald Trump and helped assist the House Select Committee on January 6 with its investigation, appeared on Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power."

President-elect Donald Trump’s long-held promise to pardon his supporters who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is drawing fresh scrutiny from a government ethics group.

The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, issued a terse statement Monday calling out Trump and his repeated signals that he is willing to grant clemency to those who breached the Capitol as Congress worked to certify Joe Biden’s 2020 election win.

A pollster this week winced at his own survey's results when it comes to the policies supporters of President-elect Donald Trump support when it comes to dealing with undocumented immigrants.

As Axios reports, a new poll from the Public Religion Research Institute shows that 46 percent of Republican voters support using the United States military to round up immigrants and put them into camps.

The recent spending battle in Congress found President-elect Donald Trump at odds with some of the Tea Party firebrands and budget hawks in his party. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) voted "no" on one of the spending bills that Trump supported, and Trump angrily responded by calling for a primary challenge to the arch-conservative.

Trump urged lawmakers to "get rid of" the debt ceiling, which some of the Tea Party budget hawks adamantly oppose.