Comment on this storyCommentThe decision was always going to be his.With a Democratic-led Senate ready to fund the government in a bipartisan fashion and a Democratic president in the White House, House...
Read moreComment on this storyCommentA last-ditch effort on Capitol Hill Saturday staved off a government shutdown with less than three hours to spare, as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), in an abrupt strategic...
Read moreJust hours before a potential government shutdown, Republicans and Democrats reached a deal in the House that includes a 45-day continuing resolution with disaster relief funds, an extension of a federal flood...
Read moreComment on this storyCommentFederal prosecutors said in a Friday night filing that former president Donald Trump may have broken the law if he bought a handgun at a recent campaign stop in...
Read moreComment on this storyCommentCongress is rapidly running out of ways to keep the government open past Saturday, after House Republicans on Friday failed to pass a short-term bill to extend the deadline...
Read moreComment on this storyCommentMembers of the House and Senate are discussing adding border security provisions to a short-term funding bill in hopes of getting enough House Republican support to avert a government...
Read moreComment on this storyCommentWhen Sen. Tim Scott threatened to attack fellow South Carolinian former Gov. Nikki Haley on the debate stage Wednesday, she encouraged him.“Bring it, Tim,” she declared.Of the seven politicians...
Read moreComment on this storyCommentWhen the Democratic majority in the House held the first public hearing in its 2019 impeachment inquiry targeting President Trump, it heard testimony from members of Trump’s administration who...
Read moreSeptember 27, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDTTanya S. Chutkan provides closing remarks to conclude a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives in Washington on Sept. 17, 2019. (Jeffrey Reed/U.S. National Archives and...
Read moreComment on this storyCommentFormer president Donald Trump likes to compare his position on abortion to Ronald Reagan’s, declaring that “like President Ronald Reagan before me, I support the three exceptions for rape,...
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