Speaker candidate Kevin McCarthy takes a significant step to securing the gavel after four days of deadlock and 14 voting rounds as he manages to win 15 of the 20 hardline fellow Republicans blocking his path.
Former US vice president told an online fundraiser by members of the Jewish community in the US that he was opposed to the move.
Complaint also alleges White House sought to "lock down" records of phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian leader Zelenskiy but White House rejects it as "a collection of third-hand accounts of events and cobbled-together press clipping."
Russia is reacting with an "I told you so" in state media after the conclusion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Moscow's involvement in the US presidential election didn't find evidence of collusion.
"Without a wall there would be bedlam, I imagine," says US President Donald Trump as he inspects several prototype barriers of a controversial wall he wants to build on the border with Mexico.
The impasse, the first of its kind since 2013, cast a huge shadow over the first anniversary on Saturday of President Donald Trump's inauguration.
Ireland's president and prime minister also attended the ceremony, alongside Britain's Northern Ireland minister. The flag at the Irish parliament was flown at half mast.
Senate Democrats have signalled they will fight Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the US Supreme Court, after Republicans refused to consider his predecessor's nominee to the bench.
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