6:40 PM: In South Carolina, Rep. Nancy Mace faces challenger backed by Kevin McCarthy When eight House Republicans voted last year to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from the speakership ...

Dan Hanlon, a former staffer of former President Trump, could launch a primary campaign against his most recent former boss, ...

Republicans expressed happiness and relief to have elected Speaker Johnson so quickly on Friday, avoiding the lengthy process to elect Speaker McCarthy in the last Congress.

Kevin McCarthy has been toppled in a right-wing ... that surprised many came from Ms Mace - a moderate Republican from South Carolina. She said afterwards: "I am looking for a Speaker who will ...

But Johnson is also in trouble because many of the key votes ostensibly for him look more like votes for the Republican ...

One of the dissidents, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, told the BBC he simply ... "This ends in one of two ways: either Kevin McCarthy withdraws from the race or we construct a straitjacket ...