The House on Wednesday passed a bill to codify year-round sales of E15 ethanol fuel, a major win for members from corn-producing states but one that drew fierce opposition from other Republicans. The vote was 218-203, with 122 Republicans, 95 Democrats and 1 independent voting in favor, and 90 Republicans and 113 Democrats opposing the...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s appearance before House and Senate appropriators on Tuesday hasn’t settled the debate in Congress over two mounting questions about the Iran war: whether U.S. stockpiles are dangerously low and how much firepower Tehran maintains. Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday remained dubious of Hegseth’s claims that the U.S. military’s weapons stockpiles remain strong...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent offered indirect praise for Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Wednesday after the centrist Democrat broke party lines on a vote confirming Kevin Warsh as the next Federal Reserve chair. Bessent hailed Republican senators and Fetterman for putting “country before political ideology” in a post on the social platform X following the...
“Politico’s Josh Gerstein illustrated precisely” this week how, if Democrats “try to pack the Supreme Court, the media would run cover for the enterprise,”...
A new book is offering a dramatically different explanation for one of last year's most widely shared political moments, though the account is already being disputed.
French journalist Florian Tardif alleges, based on unnamed sources close to the couple, that Brigitte Macron confronted her husband during a flight to Vietnam in May 2025 after discovering messages on his phone from Iranian-French actress Golshifteh Farahani.
Republicans were on a partisan redistricting roll following the Supreme Court decision allowing them to redraw racially gerrymandered congressional districts.
