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Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis arrives at the Foreign Office to visit Britain's Foreign Secretary in London, Friday, April 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Bill allows DeSantis to run for president while governor

By Curt Anderson - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at the South Carolina Statehouse, Jan. 28, 2023, in Columbia, S.C. Trump is again threatening to skip a presidential debate. The former president has been publicly complaining about the Republican National Committee debates scheduled to start in August, suggesting in interviews and social media posts his poll numbers are so high he has no reason to compete with the rest of the field. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump revives threat of skipping GOP presidential debates

By Michelle L. Price - Associated Press

Tucker Carlson's departure from Fox News illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

What Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News means for 2024

By Michael Graham

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks as he and House Republicans celebrate passage in the House of a bill that would bar federally supported schools and colleges from allowing transgender athletes whose biological sex assigned at birth was male to compete on girls or women's sports teams at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 20, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McCarthy overhauls debt limit plan amid internal divisions

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at the South Carolina Statehouse, Jan. 28, 2023, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump says he might skip the GOP debates, claiming bias

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy speaks during an event at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, April 17, 2023. McCarthy is hurtling toward one of the most consequential weeks of the new House Republican majority as he labors to pass a partisan package that would raise the nation's debt limit by $1.5 trillion in exchange for steep cuts that some in his own party oppose. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

McCarthy scores win as debt-limit plan clears procedural hurdle in narrowly divided House

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson is surrounded by family members after formally announcing his Republican campaign for president, Wednesday, April 26, 2023, in Bentonville, Ark. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Asa Hutchinson launches 2024 presidential campaign in Arkansas

By Andrew DeMillo and Michelle L. Price - Associated Press

Kentucky Agricultural Commissioner Ryan Quarles answers a question from the moderator during the Kentucky Gubernatorial GOP Primary Debate in Louisville, Ky., March 7, 2023. Playing up his Kentucky roots and steering clear, at least for now, of an increasingly combative competition between two rivals, Republican gubernatorial candidate Quarles unveiled his first TV ad of the campaign Wednesday, April 26, after months of being overshadowed on the airwaves. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, Pool) **FILE**

Quarles avoids rivals’ spats in debut ad in governor’s race

By Bruce Schreiner - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., arrives for a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans as he pushes his sweeping debt ceiling package, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 26, 2023. McCarthy is struggling to round up the votes for the bill, which would couple an increase of the country's debt ceiling with restrictions on federal spending. A final vote on the package is likely Thursday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House narrowly passes GOP debt limit bill, putting Biden on defense for refusal to negotiate

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks to reporters following a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans as Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., struggles to round up the votes for his sweeping debt ceiling package, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 26, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Chamber of Commerce breaks with GOP to oppose repeal of Dems’ green tax credits in debt limit bill

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a ceremony honoring the Council of Chief State School Officers' 2023 Teachers of the Year in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, April 24, 2023 in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden promises to veto House GOP’s debt limit bill

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 20, 2023. McCarthy is working to round up the Republican votes needed to pass his debt ceiling package. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

House GOP debt limit plan undercuts pledge not to hike taxes by scrapping Biden green energy credits

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy speaks during an event at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, April 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

CBO says McCarthy’s debt limit plan would cut deficits by $4.8 trillion, kick 600K off Medicaid

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, boards Air Force One with the president, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, N.Y. An IRS special agent is seeking whistleblower protection to disclose information regarding what the agent contends is mishandling of an investigation into President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. That is according to a letter to Congress obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Democrats greet IRS whistleblower complaint about Hunter Biden probe with skepticism, indifference

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 20, 2023. McCarthy is working to round up the Republican votes needed to pass his debt ceiling package. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

McCarthy pitches GOP holdouts on debt limit plan, says opposition complicit in ‘reckless spending’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu takes part in a panel discussion during a Republican Governors Association conference on Nov. 15, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. “Any conversation about banning abortion or limiting it nationwide is an electoral disaster for the Republicans,” said Sununu, a Republican who describes himself as “pro-choice” but also signed a law banning abortions in the state after 24 weeks. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

N.H. Gov. Chris Sununu, potential 2024 GOP candidate, says Trump set to become ‘four-time loser’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, left, announces Rep. Tim Scott, right, as Sen. Jim DeMint's replacement in the U.S. Senate during a news conference at the South Carolina Statehouse, Dec. 17, 2012, in Columbia, S.C. Haley and Scott are forever linked by that announcement, cementing their status as rising stars in a Republican Party frustrated by Barack Obama's reelection just a month earlier. But nearly a dozen years later, they find themselves poised to run against each other for the GOP presidential nomination. Haley has already launched a campaign, and Scott took steps last week toward initiating a bid of his own. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt, File)

Haley vs. Scott: From South Carolina allies to 2024 rivals

By Meg Kinnard - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 20, 2023. McCarthy is working to round up the Republican votes needed to pass his debt ceiling package. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

‘Reasonable’: Kevin McCarthy’s debt limit proposal earns praise from nonpartisan budget hawk

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower in New York on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Only 4 in 10 U.S. adults believe Trump acted illegally in New York, where he has been charged in connection with hush money payments made to women who alleged sexual encounters, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. More — about half — believe he broke the law in Georgia, where he is under investigation for interfering in the 2020 election vote count. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston, File)

Trump naysayers would’ve condemned Solomon, David, Daniel, Rahab, too

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

The Tennessee state Capitol in Nashville, Tenn., is shown on Jan. 8, 2020. Tennessee Republican lawmakers on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, advanced legislation that would prevent transgender people from changing their driver's licenses and birth certificates, a move that officials warn could cost the state millions in federal funding. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Tennessee GOP lawmaker resigns after ethics panel finding

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