McCarthy ousted as speaker in historic House vote

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy talks to reporters following a House Republican conference meeting in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. (CHIP SOMODEVILLA/Getty Images/TNS)
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy talks to reporters following a House Republican conference meeting in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. (CHIP SOMODEVILLA/Getty Images/TNS)

WASHINGTON — Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown, a first in U.S. history that was forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and threw the Hou…