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A mélange of new members will join the 119th Congress. Here are seven who are poised to make their mark – and who symbolize larger political forces that will shape the legislative branch.

The narrow Republican majority in Congress makes reelecting House Speaker Mike Johnson harder – and reveals fissures within the GOP. 

On nine different visits to the Monitor Breakfast, the former president displayed his keen intellect and trademark decency. He also made news.

President Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, defined his faith as “inextricably entwined with the political principles I have adopted.” It would infuse the decisions he made at every stage of his career in ways both good and bad, historians say.

Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to pause the potential TikTok ban until his administration can pursue a political resolution.

The rift laid bare the tensions between wealthy members of the tech world – including Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and their call for more highly skilled workers – and people in President-elect Trump’s MAGA base who championed his hard-line immigration policies.

President-elect Trump has revived calls for the United States to buy Greenland and complains of high fees at the Panama Canal. Some experts say his words hark back to an aggressive style he used in business.

Congress has pushed through final passage of a bipartisan plan to fund federal operations and prevent a government shutdown. It now goes to President Joe Biden, who is expected to quickly sign it into law.

Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, is proving his outsized influence on American politics. His railings against Congress’ bipartisan budget deal contributed to killing the stopgap measure designed to prevent a partial government shutdown.

Donald Trump’s team has long cited prosecutor Fani Willis’ romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade as a conflict of interest. The ruling follows a string of other cases against Mr. Trump that have been put on hold or abandoned.