{"id":22689,"date":"2026-05-14T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/speaker-calls-allegations-against-chuck-edwards-serious-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:22:21","slug":"speaker-calls-allegations-against-chuck-edwards-serious-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/speaker-calls-allegations-against-chuck-edwards-serious-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker calls allegations against Chuck Edwards &#8216;serious&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday the allegations against Rep. Chuck Edwards are &ldquo;serious&rdquo; and that he has spoken to the North Carolina Republican &mdash; who reportedly denied them all. Johnson also noted an ongoing House Ethics Committee investigation into sexual misconduct and harassment accusations against Edwards&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/05\/13\/congress\/speaker-calls-allegations-against-chuck-edwards-serious-00919333\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday the allegations against Rep. Chuck Edwards are &ldquo;serious&rdquo; and that he has spoken to the North Carolina Republican &mdash; who reportedly denied them all. Johnson also noted an ongoing House Ethics Committee investigation into sexual misconduct and harassment accusations against Edwards&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}