House Speaker Mike Johnson's chief of staff, Hayden Haynes, was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of driving under the influence after President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress. 

NBC News first reported details of the arrest, saying Haynes was given a citation to appear in court. Asked to confirm the report, U.S. Capitol Police said a driver backed into a parked vehicle near the Capitol around 11:40 p.m. and was taken into custody...

North Carolina’s state Board of Elections voted against giving ballot access to new parties supporting presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West on Wednesday night, though the decision is not final and will be revisited before the November election in the key battleground state.

The decision split the board along party lines, with the three-member Democratic majority voting to keep West and Kennedy off the ballot “for now,” and the two Republican commissioners said they were “disappointed” by the process.

On a “White Dudes for Harris” virtual call, it was probably fitting that “The Dude” dropped in.

Actor Jeff Bridges addressed a fundraising event geared toward white men supporting Vice President Kamala Harris and sang her praises on Monday night, before channeling his iconic role as “The Dude” in 1998’s “The Big Lebowski,” declaring, “As the Dude might say, ‘That’s just my opinion, man.’” (The original line was “That’s just, like, your opinion, man.”)

A “White Dudes for Harris” online fundraising and organizing rally raised more than $4 million for the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday night, with speakers who included would-be running mates, Hollywood actors, and labor leaders.

More than 150,000 joined the online stream for the event, which was broadcast on YouTube, blowing past the original target of 10,000 RSVPs set by organizers several days ago.

The organizers behind an online gathering of “White Dudes for Harris” claim to have raised more than $3.5 million to support Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign during the Monday event that highlights the Democratic penchant for prioritizing affinity groups and obsession with race-and-gender essentialism.

The Zoom call attracted more than 180,000 participants, including leftwing celebrities, such as Mark Hamill, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and *NSYNC singer Lance Bass, according to NBC News.

Vice President Harris on Tuesday held her first campaign event as the lead contender for the top of Democratic presidential ticket, rallying supporters in key state Wisconsin around beating former President Trump in November.

She was met with a loud and excited crowd in the Milwaukee area where bystanders outside the venue where she spoke held up signs that said “We love u Kamala.” Another sign said “Kamala Harris changes lives. Watch her change the world.”

The Republican Party’s platform committee on Monday adopted a plank drafted by aides to Donald Trump, whose new language softens the GOP’s prior stances on marriage and abortion while rattling off a series of utopian economic promises.

Among those are vows to “end inflation,” make the U.S. a “manufacturing superpower” and deliver “large tax cuts for workers.”

During an interview with ABC News on Friday, President Joe Biden said that he hasn’t had a specific cognitive evaluation because “No one said I had to” and “they said I’m good.” And refused to take an independent cognitive evaluation because “I’ve already done it” because “I have a cognitive test every single day.”

ABC host George Stephanopoulos asked, “Have you had a full neurological and cognitive evaluation?”

President Biden defended his health and insisted he can beat former President Trump in November in a high-stakes interview Friday that came after his dismal debate performance in Atlanta last week.

“I don’t think there’s anybody more qualified to be president or win this race than me,” Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

President Joe Biden’s first televised interview since last week’s debate meltdown did little to stop the bleeding.

Members of Congress and top Democratic operatives told POLITICO shortly after Biden’s sit down with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos aired that the president was more energetic and forceful than he was on stage during last week’s showdown with Donald Trump — but it likely won’t be enough to tame the panic.