As chairman of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and as a professional pilot, I am proud of the fact that the United States has been the global leader in aviation since the Wright Brothers. We must remain the world’s gold standard in aviation safety, innovation and leadership. Permanent, effective leadership at the Federal...
First Republic Bank is the latest financial institution to come under stress following the second- and third-largest bank failures in U.S. history. The San Francisco-based bank, which had $212 billion in assets at the end of last year, has seen its stock price plummet 87 percent over the last two weeks as large depositors pulled...
The Pentagon is on track to send Abrams tanks and Patriot missile defense systems to Ukraine faster than originally planned, the Defense Department’s top spokesman said Tuesday. The department will send a refurbished older model of Abrams tanks to Ukraine to speed up its delivery of the weapon to the embattled country, press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat...
Former President Obama urged Wisconsin voters to cast their ballots early in the state’s Supreme Court election on Tuesday, as majority control of the bench hangs in the balance. “Today is the first day of early voting in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election,” Obama tweeted. “It's going to be close, so don’t wait until April...
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday said former President Trump’s payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016 involved “personal money,” an apparent attempt to minimize the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation into the matter after Trump said he expects to be arrested this week. McCarthy’s comments came during a press conference on legislative priorities...
The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the state's constitution guarantees a "limited right" to abortions after reproductive rights activists challenged the abortion ban that was signed into law last year, with the court issuing a partial injunction on a bill prohibiting women from terminating their pregnancies while upholding another. In May, Oklahoma Gov....
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday said he would support legislation to repeal two Iraq war authorizations. "I'm into it," McCarthy said of the Iraq war authorization repeals at a news conference for a GOP retreat in Orlando, Fla. "I don't have a problem repealing that." But McCarthy said the 2001 Authorization for the Use...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre laughed at a reporter's question about whether it's "appropriate" for former President Trump to run for office if he is indicted.