Julia Mueller

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will undergo surgery this week after hurting his hip, his office announced Tuesday, just days after the start of the new Congress. The 89-year-old senator is "otherwise in good spirits" and expected to make a full recovery, according to a statement shared with The Hill. The exact nature of the injury...

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle — and in both chambers — are calling for Congress to look more closely at the recent news that classified documents from now-President Biden’s tenure as vice president were found in a private office he’d previously used. In the newly Republican-led House, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chair of...

Former President Trump responded Monday to the breaking news that the Justice Department is reviewing classified documents from President Biden’s tenure as vice president that were found last fall in a private office Biden had previously used. “When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House? These...

Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) on Sunday said the turmoil amid the tense election for Speaker of the House last week was “quite healthy” for the new Congress. "The process that we went through ... was quite healthy from the standpoint of getting all of these issues resolved now,” Barr said on ABC’s “This Week”...

The New York City Department of Education has banned the new artificial intelligence system ChatGPT from public school networks and devices, citing concerns about the chatbot’s ability to generate essays culled from the internet. ChatGPT gives educators pause because of “concerns about negative impacts on student learning” and “concerns regarding the safety and accuracy...

Rep.-elect Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.), the first member of Generation Z elected to Congress, appears on the latest cover of Teen Vogue as he waits to be sworn in, a process delayed by the drawn-out election for Speaker of the House. “This whole thing feels really surreal. It's crazy to think that the same...

Rep. Nancy Mace (S.C.) branded fellow Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) a “political D-Lister" and knocked him for his opposition to Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) during Tuesday’s Speaker votes.   “@RepMattGaetz full ego was on display today. He’s going to screw around and get another [Rep. Nancy] Pelosi [D-Calif.] elected Speaker. I’ll have a lot more to say about this political...

Former President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his wife, former Trump administration Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, for “unnecessary turmoil” within the GOP in the wake of House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy's (Calif.) failure to win the lower chamber's Speakership. “There is so much unnecessary turmoil in the Republican Party,” Trump...

The list of professional and personal fabrications put forth by Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) on the campaign trail continues to grow as the incoming lawmaker makes the rounds in an apology tour to the press. Santos admitted on Monday that he’d made false claims about his work and education background after a New York Times...