Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington ...

CLINTON, Iowa — After years of damage, delays and unfulfilled repair plans, Clinton’s historic Bethel church is set to be demolished — and a group of residents are now working to save what they can.

William Johnson, age 94, passed away peacefully on the morning of Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at home with his four devoted daughters. Born on August 27, 1931, Mr. Johnson was a proud and enduring ...

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson—who was so set on blocking the release of the Epstein files that he wouldn’t swear in Adelita Grijalva—says he has “concerns” about Congress’s decision to open ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson has raised the possibility that President Donald Trump could veto a bill requiring the Justice Department to release files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson voiced his personal frustration after the Senate pushed through the Jeffrey Epstein disclosure bill without adopting changes he had urged, warning that the fast-tracked vote ...

The provision allows senators to sue over their subpoenaed phone records. Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday the House will hold a standalone vote next week on stripping out a Senate provision in the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – With SNAP benefits in limbo, a local church is stepping up to help. The Bethel Church has been helping the community for decades, so Bishop McKissick Junior and his team have ...

A claim that circulated online in late October 2025 said U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson had months earlier signed President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," and that the bill purportedly ...

Democrats blocked a Republican-led attempt to provide essential government workers with paychecks amid an ongoing, 23-day shutdown, calling the bill overly selective and incomplete. That bill, ...

An unspecified number of juveniles are believed to have started a fire that heavily damaged a 129-year-old church Monday night in the small community of Leeton in southeast Johnson County, western ...

Freedom of speech has always demanded courage, and courage is the one virtue universities cannot delegate. When free speech becomes fatal speech — as it did recently with the assassination of Charlie ...