After 11 terms as a state representative in the North Carolina House of Representatives, Republican Tim Moore is moving on to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Moore has set a record, serving five two-year terms as speaker of the chamber.

Republicans have won full control of Washington, but Democrats will retain two key levers of power to shape legislative outcomes in Donald Trump’s second term.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was fact-checked on Wednesday after claiming fewer migrants came into the U.S. under President Biden than under President-elect Trump.

Donald Trump has had few defenders in Congress as reliable as Matt Gaetz. That kinship was rewarded Wednesday when Trump named Gaetz as his pick for attorney general, turning to a conservative loyalist in place of more established lawyers who’d been seen as contenders.

Donald Trump returned to Washington on Wednesday as president-elect where he headed to the White House for the first time in four years

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Trump was looming over the Senate majority leader three-way race. Musk and other Trump allies, including Tucker Carlson, backed Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who has close ties to the president-elect’s incoming chief of staff, Susie Wiles. Scott was an insurgent candidate facing Thune and John Cornyn of Texas.

After his election win in 2016, Trump met with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office and called it “a great honor.” But he soon was back to heaping insults on Obama, including accusing his predecessor — without evidence — of having wire-tapped him during the 2016 campaign.

Returning lawmakers will be choosing the leaders for the next Congress and finishing work on the remaining priorities of the outgoing 118th Congress.

Donald Trump made a victor’s return to Washington Wednesday morning for the first time since winning the presidential election last week.

Back in Washington for the first time since his election victory, Trump tells House Republicans that 'it's nice to win'