Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell fell during the Senate Republican lunch on Tuesday. It is unclear if McConnell, 82, sustained any injuries at this time or what the severity of the fall was. Two medical responders were seen briefly entering his office and have since departed.

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard‘s past sympathies for ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad‘s regime are under scrutiny as she looks to shore up support on Capitol Hill for her nomination to become President-elect Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence. Gabbard faces another busy day of meetings Tuesday on Capitol Hill after meetings with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Mike Rounds (R-SD), and James Lankford (R-OK) on Monday.

Prosecutors have suggested to a New York judge the possibility of sparing Donald Trump any prison time for his conviction on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star in light of his U.S. presidential election victory, but opposed dismissing the case. In a court filing made public on Tuesday, prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office urged Justice Juan Merchan to deny the Trump's request to throw out the case so it does not hang over...

The collapse of the Assad regime has prompted a punishing military response from Israel, which has launched airstrikes at military targets across Syria and deployed ground troops both into and beyond a demilitarized buffer zone for the first time in 50 years. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a rare press conference on Monday evening that the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime was “a new and dramatic chapter.” “The collapse of the Syrian regime is a direct...

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