Gaetz made the chaos around the House speaker vote yet more farcical on Thursday when he decided to cast his vote for Donald Trump

But Democrats don’t expect to bail out Republicans anytime soon

Lawmakers have laughed, cringed, appeared frustrated, and huddled in tense negotiation between ballots

‘I mean I think it just highlights how how extraordinarily bad faith those accusations of progressive unreasonableness are, even when they come from our side of the aisle’

Washington has one specialty that has long endured — memorializing and coming together over a national trauma

‘I led the American delegation as one of the great honours of my time in this job’

The impact of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order for his forces in Ukraine to observe a unilateral, 36-hour cease-fire is in doubt

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One-time president seen in photo on speaker’s chair with his tongue out

California Republican’s string of defeats lead to longest speaker contest in more than a century