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Kevin McCarthy has emerged as the 55th Speaker of the US House of Representatives on Saturday after winning a historic battle that quelled a rebellion in the midnight hour on Saturday, The Hill reported.

Republican favorite Kevin McCarthy was named speaker of the US House of Representatives on Jan. 7 as he quelled a fierce rebellion among his party's ranks that had paralyzed the lower chamber of Congress for days.

The Republican-led US House of Representatives remained locked in a damaging stalemate Thursday as it was forced to adjourn after failing to elect a speaker for a third straight day.

The deeply riven US House of Representatives was engulfed in crisis for a second day running Wednesday as fresh rounds of voting failed to produce a winner in the race for speaker.

The new US Congress was plunged into disarray Tuesday as renegade right-wing Republicans blocked favorite Kevin McCarthy from becoming speaker of the House of Representatives in a series of humiliating votes seen as a rebuke to the party establishment.

A Turkish politician living in the U.S. state of New Jersey has become the first Turkish-American to be appointed on behalf of the Democratic Party to the United States Electoral College, a group of presidential electors.

The drama playing out in the United States is testing the system of checks on power instituted by the Founding Fathers; it has already shown the dead end at which the divided country finds itself.

President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives on Dec. 18 night, becoming only the third American chief executive to be formally charged under the Constitution's ultimate remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Donald Trump enters 2019 locked in a fierce political battle with new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a fight he will lose. He can't force Democrats to apportion money for a wall between the United States and Mexico, but influential conservatives in media threaten to punish him if he retreats. He'll eventually find a way to surrender while declaring victory.

In this file photo taken on Dec. 11, 2018, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (2L) listens while Democratic U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi (L), U.S. President Donald Trump (2R) and Democratic Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer argue about the impending government shutdown during a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC.