A group of conservative holdouts dashed Republicans' plans to elect a new House Speaker on Wednesday, leaving the chamber paralyzed for a second week as lawmakers struggled to unite their conference behind a candidate.
President Biden on Wednesday confirmed for the first time that Hamas beheaded children during the brutal terror attacks on Israel this past weekend, saying he saw photos of the atrocities.
House investigators say President Biden began dispatching staff to retrieve boxes of documents months before his administration disclosed to the National Archives the discovery of improperly held classified documents, starting the same day that the Justice Department subpoenaed former President Donald Trump over his stash of classified materials.
Lawmakers applauded Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) after he apologized on behalf of all congress members following GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden’s (Wisc.) latest outburst at a group of federal workers. Crow apologized to the Biden administration briefers, prompting a bipartisan round of applause, during the Wisconsin lawmaker’s questioning, which some described as “rude” and “obnoxious”,...
Former President Trump said Israel “wouldn’t have had to be prepared” if he was president, implying that the U.S. would have detected and stopped a Hamas attack Saturday which sparked a war between Israel and the militant group in Gaza. The comments were released as a clip from an interview with Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade,...
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) said that he is voting against the “status quo” when asked if he would back Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) during the House vote for the Speakership. “Well, I'm a firm no against the status quo. The Republican Party has not shown a willingness to fight, to use every weapon at...
Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) said he is in Israel “doing Biden’s job” as he helps Americans to escape the country that has been dominated by fighting in recent days. “The Biden administration again, weakness invites aggression and Iran, China, Russia, North Korea, they're preying upon this weakness in the White House, this weakness in this...
United Auto Workers expanded its ongoing strikes against major automobile manufacturers Wednesday after a Ford truck plant in Kentucky joined the strike, the union announced. About 8,700 workers from the company’s Truck Assembly Plant in Louisville, Kentucky — where F-250 and F-550 trucks are built as well as some SUVs — walked off the job...
Rep. Kathy Manning (D-N.C.) said Wednesday that Hamas’s attacks on Israel need to be “condemned by everyone” and took aim at some Democrats over their statements on the ongoing fighting. “I agree that every member of our Democratic caucus has called out the gruesome nature of what happened and it's undeniable that what the Hamas...