The chief financial officer at the African Development Foundation has confirmed the Trump administration's claims of fraud by agreeing to plead guilty to directing hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to a friend who performed little actual work.
Sen. Lindsey Graham is preventing the Senate from quickly advancing a spending package needed to keep the government funded, in an effort to secure votes on two of his priorities.
A House Republican plans to move forward in the coming days with a resolution to expel Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick from Congress over fraud allegations.
WHEELING, West Virginia — West Virginia is the only state in the United States that is located entirely within the 13-state, 423-county Appalachian region. Much of the beauty, sorrow, and challenges we think of when it comes to the region originated here, where isolation, a strong work ethic, and an ability to spin a good […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told House Republicans he wants to utilize a special fast-track process that will require cooperation from Democrats to swiftly pass the funding package that the Senate is poised to send over and end what lawmakers hope will be a brief government shutdown. Johnson told Republicans about his desired play call on...
Democratic strategist David Axelrod on Thursday warned Democratic lawmakers and candidates to avoid calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be abolished on the campaign trail. "Well, you know the problem that we’ve seen before when people said abolish the police or defund the police," Axelrod said after he was asked by CNN's Boris...
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and 15 other Senate Democrats sent a letter to the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers rebuking a proposed rule that would limit federal water protections, arguing that it ignores science and threatens drinking water for millions of Americans.
A former Google engineer was convicted Thursday of stealing AI-related trade secrets from the tech giant for Chinese companies, according to the U.S. attorney's office for the Northern District of California. Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, was found guilty of seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of thefts of trade secrets,...
Records requests filed after the multistate lawsuit against Trump's executive order on minors' sex changes returned no responsive records related to allegations of harm.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled Friday that the Trump administration's executive order on citizenship-based voter ID overstepped constitutional authority.
Republicans raised concerns about the government services that could see a funding lapse on Sunday if the country plunges into a second shutdown in three months.
ICE's "wartime recruitment" campaign uses military imagery and tactical messaging to hire thousands of new agents, drawing criticism from some former officials.
Trump's nomination of Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair sparked a divide among lawmakers on Friday, as Republicans praised his experience and Democrats questioned his independence.
