Politics

The Republican National Committee voted Friday to install Donald Trump’s handpicked chair, completing his takeover of the national party as the former president closes in on a third straight presidential nomination.

The State of the Union address is one of the durable set pieces of the presidency, a forum that almost always favors the speaker in a one-way conversation with millions of Americans.

President Biden on Thursday delivered his third State of the Union, taking a defiantly political tone with the gridlock in Congress and as he faces what will likely be a nasty reelection battle against former President Donald Trump.

As an independent, Christian Miller can’t vote in Pennsylvania’s closed presidential primary in April. He said it wouldn’t matter even if he could.

On Friday afternoon, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed the social media bill that aimed to keep children under 16 years old off of social media.

Tyler Boebert, the 18-year-old son of Rep. Lauren Boebert, was arrested Tuesday in Colorado related to a string of alleged property thefts and vehicle trespasses, police said.

A New York appellate judge on Wednesday refused to halt collection of Donald Trump’s $454 million civil fraud penalty while he appeals, rejecting the former president’s request that he be allowed to post a bond covering just a fraction of what he owes.

Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades, will step down from that position in November.

Trump lawyer Alina Habba called the verdict “manifest injustice” and “the culmination of a multi-year, politically fueled witch hunt.”

A bill in Tallahassee has brought liberals and some conservatives together.