For House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to be successful over the next several months in negotiating with the White House, the Senate and his own team, he needs always to seek to please a majority of his majority. For House Republicans to be successful, they need their majority to act like the majority.   ...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will endorse an impeachment inquiry into President Biden this week, a source familiar confirmed to The Hill, setting the scene for a formal vote in the chamber — even though it remains unclear that there is enough support to launch a formal investigation. McCarthy intends to tell Republican lawmakers that House Oversight...

The significance of India to China, Europe and the U.S. has soared since Modi’s rule began in 2014.

Any other time, it would have been a big deal — when former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro was found guilty of contempt of Congress. Not this time. Instead of banner headlines about a top White House official breaking the law, the general reaction to Navarro’s guilty verdict was: “Ho hum. Yet another former Trump...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia Tuesday for an expected meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, fueling the West’s concerns over North Korea providing Russia with military aid.  Citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, The Associated Press reported Kim entered Russia, though his immediate location is unclear. State news agency RIA-Novosti said his train was...

Within just a year, nearly half of the 1,700 prisoners Beshear released early due to COVID were charged in at least one new crime, and nearly one-third with a new felony. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin knocked the criminal cases against former President Trump on Tuesday, calling them a demonstration of the “rottenness” of the American political system.  “As for the prosecution of Trump, for us what is happening in today’s conditions, in my opinion, is good because it shows the rottenness of the American political system,...

The more pessimistic side of me sees a few factors pushing us towards a shutdown. 

Republican Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire predicts that the 2024 GOP presidential nomination field will narrow by end of the year.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is demanding answers from the State Department on the “sudden foreign policy decisions" during the Obama administration that led to the dismissal of the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Burisma Holdings while Hunter Biden sat on the board of the company.