Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, the country's longest living president, celebrated his 99th birthday Sunday. Carter was the 39th president, from 1977-1981.

Every week comes another account of a college or university establishing reigning orthodoxies of divisive leftism and then denying the obvious. The latest profile in dishonesty is Virginia’s George Mason University. It is trying to dodge well-founded criticism by the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Congress managed to stop a government shutdown with just hours to spare on Saturday, with the Senate giving final approval to a temporary spending bill sent over by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy with the help of Democratic votes.

Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet reportedly temporarily held up the vote on the short-term funding bill to avoid a government shutdown over its lack of Ukraine funding.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) said fellow New Yorker Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D) should “strongly consider” resigning if he pulled a fire alarm in the Cannon House Office Building Saturday. “That any member of Congress would think it's appropriate to pull a fire alarm to try and delay Congress from doing its business is shameful, it’s...

Entrepreneur and 2024 GOP presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy expressed his negative view of the recently passed stopgap funding bill to keep the government funded on Saturday. "My first reaction is the reaction it's been for the last several days, which is this whole debate is a farce. It's a deflection," Ramaswamy told reporters following...