Comments from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) this week again presented a challenge to GOP leadership after she was silenced Wednesday following an exchange with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in which she accused him of being a liar. Greene’s comments pushed Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee to move to take down her...
Senate and House lawmakers introduced bipartisan legislation on Thursday that would boost cybersecurity collaboration between the U.S. and Taiwan in an effort to counter cyberattacks from China. The bill, called the Taiwan Cybersecurity Resiliency Act, would require the U.S. Department of Defense to broaden and strengthen cybersecurity cooperation with Taiwan by conducting cyber training exercises,...
The U.S. is putting troops in place over the potential to evacuate American embassy personnel sheltering in place in Khartoum, amid days of intense fighting between opposing Sudanese military forces in the country’s capital, the Biden administration confirmed Thursday. U.S. Africa Command “is monitoring the situation in Sudan and conducting prudent planning for various contingencies,”...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has said Friday will be his final treatment of chemotherapy for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, with which he was diagnosed with late last year. “On Friday is my very last session. The doctors tell me the chemotherapy has extinguished the cancer cells, at least as far as they can tell,” Raskin...
The situation threatens to escalate the conflict that is slowly killing the norms and traditions that once earned the Senate the moniker of “world’s greatest deliberative body.”
Elephant seals avoid predators by sleeping while they dive, a new study has found. The research published Thursday in Science sheds new light on the universal mammal need for sleep and the species' persistence through centuries of widespread hunting. The large aquatic mammals spend up to seven months at sea at a time — most of it on repeated back-to-back dives...
South Florida is facing gas shortages across the region after it was pummeled with severe storms last week that brought historic rainfall and widespread flooding. About 55 percent of gas stations in Miami and Fort Lauderdale are without fuel as of Thursday morning, according to GasBuddy’s Southeast Florida Live Gas Station Outage Tracker. Another about...
A superPAC supporting a potential Gov. Ron DeSantis White House bid reportedly made key hires in states such as Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
A top administrator of Washington’s District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange Authority apologized for a data breach that released personal information on members of the Congress.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy celebrated the passage of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act Thursday, which he said is a day for "fairness" for women in sports.