House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday doubled down on demands that Democrats accept border security as part of a stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown this weekend.

Oil and natural gas lobbying group Western Energy Alliance on Wednesday whacked the small group of conservative House Republicans opposing a bipartisan Senate deal to avoid a looming government shutdown.

More than half of Americans think President Biden was "probably involved" in his son's business transactions.

Rep. Matt Gaetz avoided giving any names when pressed on who he would want as the new House speaker if he succeeds in ousting Kevin McCarthy from the job.

A Senate committee on Wednesday approved legislation that would prohibit federal regulators from penalizing a bank for providing financial services to a legitimate cannabis business.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said his cancer treatment has been effective in attacking the ailment, letting him return to work in a crucial week for House leadership.

As the Senate marches ahead with a bipartisan approach to prevent a government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is back to square one - asking his hard-right Republicans to do what they have said they would never do: approve their own temporary House measure to keep the government open.

Charging five Bulgarian residents of the United Kingdom with spying for Russia, the U.K. has provided new potential for a prisoner swap that might see Russia release journalist Evan Gershkovich and possibly also former Marine Paul Whelan. While I'm unaware of any direct conversations between the United States and the U.K. over such a swap, Washington has been talking with its allies as to any prisoners they might be willing to release in exchange for Gershkovich's freedom.

The United Auto Workers strike and the political posturing surrounding it expose that both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump simply aren’t up for the job, given both their misplaced priorities and their no-show campaigns.

Despite years of President Joe Biden's denials that he spoke with his son about his overseas business dealings or profited from Hunter Biden trading on the Biden family name, the House Oversight Committee has obtained evidence that in the summer of 2019, Hunter Biden listed his father's Delaware address on a wire transfer to receive money from his Chinese business associates.