NEW QUESTIONS IN BIDEN CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS INVESTIGATION. Recently, the White House announced that President Joe Biden was interviewed for two days, Oct. 8 and 9, by Robert Hur, the special counsel investigating Biden's alleged mishandling of classified documents. The news set off speculation that Hur's investigation was reaching its end, given that prosecutors often wait until they have finished most of their information-gathering before questioning the target of the investigation.
The Supreme Court denied two emergency requests to restart the redrawing of Louisiana's congressional map, a process that was likely to add a second majority-Black district. A map passed by Louisiana’s Republican-controlled legislature is currently blocked by a federal district judge’s preliminary ruling, which sided with a group of Black voters racial justice organizations’ claims...
The Senate voted unanimously Thursday afternoon, 97-0, in favor of a resolution stating the Senate stands firmly with Israel and firmly against Hamas. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who withheld his support for the resolution earlier in the week, was able to get language added to the resolution to make clear that it should not...
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) said he will do “everything possible” to prevent the empowering of Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.). “I’m against ‘Speaker Light’,” Gaetz said in a clip posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter Thursday. “I’m against Bud Light. I believe it is a constitutional desecration to not elect...
House conservatives are bashing a bipartisan effort to temporarily expand Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry's powers to move legislation as interim speaker.
The Biden administration plans to submit an emergency funding request for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan to the Senate this week, Sen. Chuck Schumer said Thursday.
The House is in historic territory with a proposal to empower Patrick McHenry as an interim speaker. And it's unclear whether enough Republicans would support the plan anyway.
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested after flooding into the Cannon Rotunda on Capitol Hill with signs and chants. Here's what protesters had to say.