Although his party kept control of Congress's upper chamber in 2022, President Joe Biden is once again stuck sending Kamala Harris to cast tiebreaking Senate votes. The vice president is keen to get out of town and on the de facto campaign trail for her boss, but the president's agenda is currently imperiled by two senators who, dealing with chronic health issues, cannot show up for work.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is visiting China from Thursday until Saturday. But unlike French President Emmanuel Macron, Baerbock recognizes that Europe's relationship with China must extend beyond simple trade mercantilism.
THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL STATURE GAP. There are now five candidates who have either joined the 2024 Republican presidential race or have taken official steps toward doing so: Former President Donald Trump; former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, also the former South Carolina governor; entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy; former Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR); and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC).
European jet-maker Airbus is beating its American rival Boeing, and champions of corporatism blame this on a supposed “free-market dogma” in America compared to a state-directed industrial policy in Europe.
Peter Navarro lost his bid to block an order that requires him to hand over hundreds of emails sent during his tenure as a White House adviser during Trump administration to the National Archives. A three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that “there is no public interest in Navarro’s retention of...
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Thursday announced he would return to the Capitol on Monday for the first time in more than five weeks after suffering a concussion at a private dinner in early March. McConnell tweeted that he would be in the Capitol when the Senate returns from the two-week April recess....
Jack Teixeira, an airman in the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was arrested Thursday in Massachusetts connection with the leak of classified documents shared in a group he managed on a website popular with gamers, according to multiple outlets. Teixeira oversaw Thug Shaker Central, a group on Discord where more than 100 classified documents on topics...
Last Thursday was a shameful day in the Volunteer State. Just days after six people — three of them only nine years old — were murdered in an elementary school, three Democratic lawmakers joined a group of protesters demanding their legislature act. Rather than listen and engage, the Republican supermajority in the Tennessee House of...
President Biden on Thursday took the opportunity to acknowledge his age — which comes up often as one of his weaknesses in office and on the campaign trail — when addressing the Irish parliament. Biden expressed hope to Irish lawmakers about the future, while lauding the historic partnership between the two countries. He also invoked...