House GOP pulls key vote on stopgap spending bill amid conservative opposition  —  House GOP leadership pulled a procedural vote on a proposed short-term funding stopgap that has bitterly divided the Republican conference and elicited opposition from hard-line conservatives.

McCarthy gets tough with the right  —  Boxed in by conservatives as a shutdown looms, the embattled speaker is punching back.  —  After months tiptoeing around the conservatives who have made his speakership a constant high-wire act, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appears to be fed up — and ready to fight.

Chaos and acrimony as House Republicans pull bill to keep government running: ‘multiple games afoot’  —  House Speaker McCarthy in a bind as GOP factions, and factions within factions, at loggerheads  —  An expected procedural vote to advance the stopgap spending bill put together …

Feds charge Jan. 6 protester at center of unproven, hard-right conspiracy theories  —  Epps became the focus of conspiracy theories — some amplified by Donald Trump and his allies — accusing him of being an FBI informant.  —  Federal prosecutors filed a criminal charge Tuesday against a Utah man …