President Joe Biden began his term with moves that bucked establishment thinking on US foreign policy. But that promising trend stalled in the final months of the year, and while Biden still has time to…
The Biden administration will release an executive order for cryptocurrencies in February, Bloomberg reported. Federal agencies are to be tasked with assessing the risks and opportunities that digital assets pose. Senior administration officials will present…
Former President Donald Trump said the Ukraine-Russia crisis never would’ve happened on his watch. But Trump was impeached, in part, for withholding millions in military aid to Ukraine. Experts said Trump’s presidency emboldened Putin. Former…
GOP Senate candidate J.D. Vance defended his online rhetoric as evidence of his “realness.” “I think it’s important for our politicians to have a sense of humor,” Vance told a local reporter. Vance publicly criticized…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has issued its first clean energy loan guarantee, reviving an Obama-era program that helped launch the country’s first utility-scale wind and solar farms a decade ago but has largely…
(Reuters) -The Georgia prosecutor investigating then-U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state will be allowed to seat a special grand jury to subpoena witnesses to testify against him….
WASHINGTON – The U.S. was still deep in diplomatic discussions with Russia over the crisis in Ukraine when President Joe Biden succinctly summed up what’s at stake. Another Russian invasion of the former Soviet republic would be “the most…
President Joe Biden is set to travel to Pittsburgh on Friday to spotlight his administration’s efforts to strengthen the nation’s supply chains and other aspects of his domestic agenda. The White House announced Biden’s trip…
Two days before Sarah Palin tested positive for Covid-19, the conservative Republican dined at a New York City restaurant that’s a magnet for celebrities, the manager confirmed Monday. Patrons are required to present proof of…
The United States is discussing the deployment of American military forces to Eastern Europe with its NATO allies, a senior administration official said Monday, as President Joe Biden weighs options for responding to Russian threats against Ukraine. Defense Secretary…
Arizona Republicans have put forth two dozen bills this month that would significantly change the state’s electoral processes after the GOP’s unorthodox review of millions of ballots affirmed President Joe Biden’s victory and turned up…
Newt Gingrich, a former House speaker and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, stoked outrage on Sunday by predicting members of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack will be imprisoned if Republicans retake the…
Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) last year left little doubt why she was voting against a $1-trillion bipartisan infrastructure measure, calling it nothing more than a “socialist plan full of crushing taxes and radical spending.” Yet,…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Trump-aligned Republican and an underdog progressive Democrat are taking an unusually early step in their campaigns for the U.S. Senate: They’re holding a debate. The odd match-up between Josh Mandel, a…
The Supreme Court on Monday said it turned down an appeal from House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) seeking to strike down a rule set by House Democrats that allows members to cast proxy votes…
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin was facing a new legal challenge over his executive action that aimed to let parents opt out of school mask mandates as his order took effect…
WASHINGTON – A year into his term, President Joe Biden is taking heat from all sides of the immigration debate. Immigration advocates feel betrayed and frustrated, saying Biden has embraced or even augmented some of the Trump administration’s…
Rick Caruso, the shopping mall magnate who is considering a run for mayor of heavily Democratic Los Angeles, said Monday he has changed his political affiliation from no party preference to Democrat. Caruso dropped his longtime Republican…
Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said Sunday that officials investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot could be jailed if the GOP regains control of Congress in the midterm election. The remark…
Twenty-seven House of Representatives members have signed a letter urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to bring forward legislation that would ban members of Congress from owning or trading stocks. Why…
Virginia’s new Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, is taking the debate over mask mandates in schools to the Washington suburbs that are home to much of the capital’s power elite. In doing so, he gives new…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic cursing a Fox News reporter at a White House event on Monday after the journalist shouted a question about the impact of rising…
“Blame the left” is Washington’s latest craze. It would not be surprising if it were just coming from the GOP. But scapegoating progressives is now an increasingly popular sport among Washington-based pundits—and even some Democratic Party strategists—trying to identify who…
BUENOS AIRES—Argentine Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman was not answering his phone, and his mother was growing worried. It was the eve of Nisman’s testimony to Congress on Jan. 19, 2015—a monumental event that threatened to expose the…
A Florida man has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nancy Pelosi, two leading Democrats in Congress, and Kim Foxx, a prominent district attorney in Illinois. Related: ‘The walls are closing in’: Trump…
GENEVA (Reuters) – The Omicron-fuelled wave of COVID-19 infections has led wealthy countries to intensify their recruitment of nurses from poorer parts of the world, worsening dire staffing shortages in overstretched workforces there, the International…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has rejected a prosecutor’s demand for records of his appearance at a pro-Donald Trump rally that preceded the assault on the U.S. Capitol. Last week, the…
When President Joe Biden in March 2021 gave his first primetime address, he astutely pointed to the one thing that has united almost all Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic: a shared sense of sacrifice. “We all lost something—a collective suffering, a…
When Donald Trump announced plans in 2006 to build a golf complex on ancient sand dunes on the Aberdeenshire coast in Scotland he told reporters it was love at first sight. “As soon as I…
WASHINGTON – A year into his term, President Joe Biden is taking heat from all sides of the immigration debate. Immigration advocates feel betrayed and frustrated, saying Biden has embraced or even augmented some of the Trump administration’s…