The U.S. House on Friday approved a sweeping annual defense bill that provides an expected 5.2% pay raise for service members but strays from traditional military policy with political add-ons from Republicans to block abortion coverage, diversity initiatives at the Pentagon and transgender issues that deeply divided the chamber.

President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee raised more than $72 million for his reelection in the 10 weeks since he announced his 2024 candidacy, his campaign announced Friday.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to file his 2024 candidacy for South Carolina's Republican presidential primary when he's in the first-in-the-South voting state next week, becoming the first GOP hopeful to do so.

Lockdowns, closures, and fear of COVID-19 caused many harms, including a significant increase in alcohol consumption. Study after study shows that was the case during the pandemic.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) dodged questions on Friday over whether he would send cluster bombs to Ukraine after the U.S. confirmed this month that it had supplied Ukraine with the controversial munitions. Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson asked Scott during the conservative Christian The Family Leadership Summit where he stood on...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is part of a bipartisan group of senators who have offered an amendment to the annual Defense authorization bill requiring the federal government to collect and make public records related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) and unidentified flying objects (UFOs).   The proposed amendment to the National Defense Authorization...

The House Administration Committee on Thursday advanced a divisive election reform bill that would encourage states to adopt stricter voter ID requirements, force Washington, D.C., to change some election processes and make changes to federal campaign finance rules. The bill, which is more than 200 pages long, advanced to the House floor by an 8-4...

The CEO of the company behind artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT has pledged to work with the agency, even as he criticized how news of its probe of the company became public. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s tweeted response came after the agency's request for documents from the company about the AI chatbot was first reported...

“Our neck is stretched over the fence and OPEC has a knife.” This was President Jimmy Carter quoting an American he met as part of a speech during the energy crisis in 1979. Carter’s statements were dubbed the “Crisis of Confidence” speech, and were delivered in July, when oil prices were $13 per barrel, (49...

Several former White House officials have appeared before a Washington grand jury as special counsel Jack Smith’s team probes whether former President Trump knew he lost the 2020 election. According to multiple reports, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and former communications aide Hope Hicks were among those who gave testimony to the grand jury. The group...