Florida Republican Rep. Ted Yoho apologized for the "abrupt manner" of an exchange he had with New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, following reports he used profane language during an altercation on the Capitol steps on Monday. Yoho’s comments, overheard by a veteran Hill reporter for The Hill, came after the GOP congressman reportedly said…

CLOSE Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder leaving federal courthouse Tuesday Cincinnati EnquirerCOLUMBUS, Ohio —The arrest of Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four others Tuesday involved $60 million, a racketeering and bribery investigation, a nuclear plant bailout and one of the largest money laundering cases in the state’s history.There are many moving parts to the complicated investigation.…

(CNN)Senate Republicans and the White House are, on several fronts, further from coalescing around a unified $1 trillion stimulus proposal than they were at the start of the week. A closed-door GOP…

“The Vienna Convention states diplomats must ‘respect the laws and regulations of the receiving state’ and ‘have a duty not to interfere in the internal affairs of that state,’” State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement. “The United States will not tolerate the PRC’s violations of our sovereignty and intimidation of our people,…

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution provides that “representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed.” This text is unambiguous. With a narrow exception for some Native Americans, all persons within the United States must be counted…