U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson granted President-elect Trump's request to suspend a 30-day mourning period for former ...

There are still two weeks to go in the mourning period for former president Jimmy Carter, when American flags are directed to ...

President Jimmy Carter's casket was placed Tuesday in the Capitol Rotunda, where he will lie in state until Thursday's ...

The closest it ever happened was in 1973, when then-President Richard Nixon ordered flags lowered to honor former President Lyndon B. Johnson who died just days after Nixon’s second swearing-in.

Republican Mike Johnson has narrowly won re-election to the House speakership on a first ballot, overcoming hard-right GOP holdouts after a tense standoff and buoyed by a nod of support from ...

Mike Johnson's reelection as Speaker of the House ... out McCarthy and struggled to agree on a successor. The conservative Christian lawyer emerged as a consensus pick, but has since struggled ...

US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson was reelected to the chamber’s top job on Friday in a lengthy vote that highlighted persistent divisions among Donald Trump’s Republicans on ...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson held onto his job on Friday, securing enough votes from his Republican colleagues to be reelected in one round. It’s an abbreviated journey for Johnson ...

Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson was narrowly reelected speaker of the US House of Representatives on Friday in dramatic floor vote after dozens of his party members voiced doubts over his ...

The House voted Friday to reelect Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., after multiple Republicans initially did not cast a vote for him in what became a tight contest spurred by pushback from a small ...

Speaker chosen: Mike Johnson was re-elected speaker of the House on Friday after flipping two GOP opponents following an intervention by President-elect Donald Trump, but he’ll face a big ...