The rise of Mike Johnson to US House Speaker is a disturbing development as the world lurches towards existential crisis

Vote could take place after US House of Representatives returns after Thanksgiving break

Extraordinary scenes on Capitol Hill as one Republican politician is accused of assaulting a party colleague while a US senator challenges union leader to a fight at a committee hearing

Santos charged with laundering funds to pay for personal expenses and illegally receiving unemployment benefits

Party picks Mike Johnson as fourth designate for job after many on its right-wing felt Minnesota politician not sufficiently conservative

McCarthy removed from post after rebellion by small number of hard-right members in Republican party

Louisiana congressman Steve Scalise dropped out of contest on Thursday night after Republican infighting

After this week’s drama, Capitol Hill is braced for another fraught battle among Republicans

The election of a new House speaker - a process that is shrouded in uncertainty - could take days, if not weeks, to be resolved

Business owners are watching the impasse in Congress with a familiar sense of dread

Martin Wall: Joe Biden has warned of threats to food safety, cancer research and children’s programmes if Congress is not able to pass the country’s budget by next week

In a controversial court move, the owners of Purdue Pharma will be shielded from future civil legal actions

Politicians on right and left will be unhappy with some of the terms in Biden and McCarthy’s proposed accord

New York Republican facing calls to quit, but with slim majority for GOP in House of Representatives, his vote is vital in the chamber

President seemed to draw energy from heckling by some Republicans in his State of the Union address to US Congress

US president calls on Republicans to help him ‘finish the job’

Many of the New Yorker’s pronouncements have proven to be false, including his CV and claims his family fled the Holocaust

US Democratic president promises to sign a law to codify abortion rights in January if Democrats triumph in November elections

China fired ballistic missiles around the island after US House speaker’s Nancy Pelosi’s trip earlier this week

January 6th committee’s latest hearings to take place on Tuesday and Thursday