The head of the Georgia Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council revealed on Friday that he appointed himself to take over the election case in Georgia against President Donald Trump and several others, a move that comes after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified from it. The council’s director, Peter Skandalakis, said he would take the case on after he was unable to find another prosecutor to do it....

The nation’s longest shutdown on record just ended — but the issues behind it remain far from resolved. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, said she envisions not much will have changed by the time the government has to reevaluate its spending needs on Jan. 30. “My sense is that we would probably be in the same place on Jan. 30 as we are...

President Donald Trump said on Friday that he directed the Justice Department to investigate disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to several high-profile Democrats and certain banks. “Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures, I will be asking AG Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with...