Luke Broadwater

During official proceedings of the G.O.P.-controlled chamber, speaking about former President Donald J. Trump’s felony conviction has been forbidden, while disparaging President Biden and Democrats is routine.

The senator’s accident in Maryland last weekend did not come as a surprise to some of his former staff members, who said he was a notoriously distracted driver.

Plus, New York targets rogue smoke shops.

In a closed-door meeting with G.O.P. House members, the former president disparaged the city where his party’s convention will be held, according to people in the room.

Three and a half years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, Donald J. Trump made a visit to Capitol Hill, as his party’s wary establishment rallies around his possible return to power.

The attorney general has refused Republican demands to turn over audio recordings by the special counsel who investigated the president’s handling of classified documents.

But despite the partisan roar, two juries appeared to seriously weigh the evidence and deliver verdicts. The system seemed to work as it is supposed to.

Many allies of Donald J. Trump had secretly wanted an acquittal, which they predicted would have turbocharged fund-raising and fed their claims of a rigged justice system.

The Manhattan district attorney and another prosecutor will confront questions next month from G.O.P. lawmakers about the Trump case.

The Manhattan district attorney suggested to a Republican congressman that he would testify only after former President Donald J. Trump is sentenced in July.

Both Representatives Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Ronny Jackson of Texas are close allies of the former president who have faced legal and ethical issues.

The referrals, which accuse the president’s son and brother of lying about his involvement in their business dealings, carry no force of law but are the latest bid by Republicans to target the Biden family.

His ex-wife and an ex-girlfriend painted a portrait of a family man who was falling into an abyss of addiction and living a lavish, party-hopping high life in New York and Los Angeles.

Republican leaders in and out of government are publicly pushing to prosecute Democrats as legal retribution for Donald Trump’s felony conviction.

Speaker Mike Johnson announced a “three-pronged approach” for how Republicans on Capitol Hill would push back against the prosecutions of the former president.

Marcus Allen was also awarded back pay and resigned from the bureau after reaching a settlement agreement, his lawyer said.

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Lacking evidence or the votes to support impeachment charges against President Biden, Republicans are considering criminal referrals against him and his allies instead.

An examination of confidential correspondence and interviews with those close to Mr. Biden and lawyers involved in the case show how the agreement ultimately fell apart amid schisms and withering external pressures.

Prominent Republicans, including congressional leaders, ex-rivals and potential running mates, basked in the energy, and fund-raising, of an outraged base.

Speaking to Fox News, Speaker Mike Johnson, a steadfast supporter of former President Donald J. Trump, also boasted about the National Republican Campaign Committee’s fund-raising numbers.

The party switch was the culmination of a long breakup with the Democratic Party by the conservative senator from West Virginia.

Republicans urged the former president to appeal the verdict after a jury found him guilty of all 34 criminal counts.

The committee voted unanimously to scrutinize the Texas Democrat’s conduct after his indictment this month on federal bribery and corruption charges.

Representative Tony Gonzales’s narrow victory over a far-right challenger came after a divisive race for the party, and most likely strengthened Republicans’ grip on the border district.

Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, brought up the bill, seeking to remind voters that it is Republicans who have stood in the way of a solution to the chaos at the border.

Fifty-two Democrats joined Republicans in favor of the legislation, which has little chance of enactment but offered the G.O.P. a chance to amplify Donald Trump’s false claims of widespread illegal voting by noncitizens.

House Republicans are pushing legislation to crack down on voting by noncitizens, which is allowed in some local elections but illegal — and exceedingly rare — at the federal level.

The bills under consideration have virtually no chance of becoming law, but Republicans are using them to amplify Donald Trump’s false claims of widespread illegal voting by noncitizens.

The bipartisan border enforcement compromise, blocked by Republicans in February, is all but certain to be thwarted again. Democrats aim to tag the G.O.P. as the culprit in its failure.

In an after-hours session on Capitol Hill, insults by the right-wing Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene led to a raucous exchange with Democrats, featuring insults about personal appearance, intellect and more.

The former two-term Republican governor, who vetoed legislation in Maryland to expand abortion access, called himself “pro-choice” in an interview and said he would back a federal law to ensure access to the procedure.

The move came as two House committees voted along party lines to recommend holding Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in contempt over his refusal to turn over audio of the conversations.

The Prince George’s County executive will now face Larry Hogan, the popular former two-term governor, in a race that could determine which party controls the Senate.

The contest between Angela Alsobrooks, the Prince George’s County executive, and Representative David Trone has grown tighter as they vie to take on Larry Hogan, the G.O.P. ex-governor.

A crop of novice lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee has countered Republicans’ allegations against President Biden with attention-grabbing charges of their own.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing to add language to the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration that would halt expansion of the technology.

New testimony underscores how a critical miscommunication between top military officials contributed to a four-hour delay in deploying troops to help restore order at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Mr. Cuellar and his wife are accused of accepting bribes from a bank in Mexico City and an oil and gas company owned by Azerbaijan. He has maintained they are innocent.

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This was featured in live coverage.

The law lapsed only briefly after a late-night deal that allowed votes on privacy advocates’ proposed changes, all of which were defeated.

Republicans and Democrats voted to advance a measure to extend a warrantless surveillance law, but skeptics in both parties were still pushing to make substantial changes before a final vote.

Plus, a brazen gold heist.

Democrats quickly swept aside the articles of impeachment accusing the homeland security secretary of refusing to enforce immigration laws and breach of public trust, calling them unconstitutional.

Republicans are demanding a full trial of the homeland security secretary, but Democrats have made it clear they will try to dismiss the charges quickly and with little fanfare.

Speaker Mike Johnson scaled back the measure to two years from five after Donald J. Trump had urged Republicans to “kill” it. An effort to require warrants to search for Americans’ messages failed on a tie.

Right-wing lawmakers blocked a move by Speaker Johnson to extend a key foreign intelligence surveillance tool after former President Donald J. Trump urged lawmakers to “kill” the law underlying it.

Now that he is the leader, the Louisiana Republican has found himself bowing to governing realities that are now his problem.

The police department charged with protecting lawmakers has brought in new attorneys specially responsible for prosecuting people who make violent threats against members of Congress.

More than three years after the attack on Congress, a Republican subcommittee chairman offered a series of baseless and disproved claims about it, reflecting an effort on the right to falsify what occurred.

They argue that quickly dispensing with the charges, as senators in both parties are inclined to do, would be an affront to Americans.

State leaders are drafting emergency legislation that would provide financial support to affected workers and assistance to small businesses.

The cargo ship that struck the bridge in March suffered two electrical blackouts before it left the port, the National Transportation Safety Board said.

The hard-right Georgia Republican called the $1.2 trillion legislation an “atrocious attack on the American people” and said the speaker had betrayed his G.O.P. colleagues.

President Donald J. Trump warned his vice president against failing to overturn the 2020 election results, according to an account by the White House valet by his side on Jan. 6.

The witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, declined to cooperate with inquiries into Stefan Passantino prompted by her assertions that he pressed her to protect Donald Trump.

Their claims of censorship have successfully stymied the effort to filter election lies online.

Lacking evidence or the votes to support impeachment charges against President Biden, Republicans are considering criminal referrals against him and his allies instead.

In a letter, a lawyer for the president’s son cited a scheduling conflict and denounced the Republican impeachment inquiry as a “carnival side show.”

Robert K. Hur defended himself in the unhurried, forceful cadence of a veteran prosecutor, delivering his responses in a flat, matter-of-fact tone.

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This was featured in live coverage.

At a hearing, Republicans peppered Robert K. Hur about his justifications for not charging the president, and Democrats rebuked him for broad assertions about Mr. Biden’s memory.

But a newly released transcript of an interview of the Secret Service agent who drove Donald Trump’s vehicle that day disputes that he tried to grab the steering wheel or lunged at another agent.

At least one member of Congress invited a Palestinian as their guest inside the House chamber, and pro-Palestinian groups planned a demonstration outside the White House.

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House Republicans rushed to impeach the homeland security secretary but are taking their time delivering the charges to the Senate, where a trial is likely to be over before it begins — or yield a quick acquittal.

Emails and texts unearthed in a lawsuit show how key figures intended their plan to create a “cloud of confusion” to help keep Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss.

The president’s son insisted his father had nothing to do with his business deals, offered a blunt and unflattering account of his own conduct and said he did not know or could not remember key details.

The president’s son, who had resisted testifying, condemned Republicans’ efforts to impeach his father and addressed key claims in their case.

Four months into his job as the top leader in the House, Speaker Mike Johnson finds himself the odd man out in increasingly intense talks on how to fund the government and whether to continue aid to Ukraine.

The spending stalemate that has brought the government to the brink of a shutdown is being fueled by G.O.P. demands to add conservative spending mandates opposed by President Biden and Democrats.

Republicans in Congress built their impeachment case against President Biden around a bribery accusation that the F.B.I. had warned them was uncorroborated.

The president’s younger brother rebutted G.O.P. allegations against Joe Biden in impeachment testimony and portrayed himself as an anchor during family tragedy.

The effort by House Republicans to find wrongdoing on the part of President Biden was already struggling, but it took another big blow when a key source was charged with making up allegations.

The West Virginia senator had flirted with a White House campaign, possibly on the ticket of the centrist group No Labels, but said on Friday that he would not challenge President Biden.

The Hollywood lawyer’s support of the president’s son is under scrutiny from House Republicans while his aggressive tactics are rankling the White House.

The informant’s story was part of a series of explosive and unsubstantiated claims by Republicans that the Bidens engaged in potentially criminal activity.

Previously undisclosed letters show a testy exchange over whether the Justice Department violated its own guidelines in releasing a report with comments disparaging President Biden.