US House Republican McCaul, a vocal Ukraine ally, will not seek re-election

US Representative Michael McCaul from Texas, a longtime Republican lawmaker focused on foreign policy, announced on Sunday he would not seek re-election for his Texas seat next year. McCaul, the former chair of the House of Representatives' Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs committees and an advocate of US military support for Israel and for Ukraine in its fight against Russian forces, said he will serve the remainder of his term through 2026. "I'm looking for a new challenge in the same space that would be national security, foreign policy, but just in a different realm," McCaul said on ABC's "This Week" programme. First elected to Congress in 2004, McCaul used his experience as a former federal prosecutor with expertise in...