The Latest Breaking News from the Republican Party

The Republican Party in the United States has moved farther right in recent years. And as it’s done so, you would think racialized Americans might be distancing themselves from it and its policies.

Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan from the Republican Party have declared their candidacy for the role.

Congressman Gaetz led a group of Republican dissenters to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in a historic vote.

As a result of the motion to vacate rule, Mr McCarthy was forced to govern in ‘extreme, bizarre ways…just yielding all of this power to an extreme rightwing,’ the New York Democrat said

Add this embarrassing failure of leadership to the Republicans’ other big problems, the biggest being Donald Trump, the former president and current GOP front runner facing 91 criminal counts.

A number of far-right Republicans have started calling for Mr Trump to become the next speaker after Kevin McCarthy’s unceremonious exit on Tuesday

‘We have some great people in the Republican Party that could do a great job as speaker,’ Trump says in Manhattan courthouse

US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been ousted – in a move initiated by members of his own Republican Party – from the second-most important post in the American government.

When Mitt Romney announced his intended retirement from the U.S. Senate on Sept. 13, 2023, the Atlantic published an excerpt from his upcoming biography, in which the 2012 Republican presidential nominee told author McKay Coppins, “A very large portion of my party really doesn’t believe in the Constitution.”

Psychologist delves into the influence of former president on intransigent followers

"The strongest variable predicting a rise in the murder rate is trust in fellow Americans," says Rachel Kleinfeld