House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is set to meet Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in the U.S. instead of her home island, which China considers to be a breakaway province, according to a new report.

The Biden administration is reportedly considering a mass vaccination campaign for poultry to combat avian flu outbreaks that have killed millions of chickens and driven up the cost of eggs.

The new U.N. human rights chief said Tuesday that his office has opened "channels of communication" to help follow up on concerns about the rights of minorities in China, including Uyghur Muslims and Tibetans. But this fell short of activists' hopes for a stronger message to Beijing.

President Biden wants to increase taxes to boost funding for Medicare and expand the program's ability to negotiate lower costs for prescription drugs, according to advance details of his budget proposal being released later this week.

A sharp drop in illegal border crossings since December could blunt a Republican point of attack against President Joe Biden as the Democratic leader moves to reshape a broken asylum system that has dogged him and his predecessors.

One would hope President Biden would learn from past mistakes and move to giving Ukrainians the weapons they need.

President Biden is proposing to extend the solvency of the Medicare national healthcare program by 25 years with an increased tax rate on high earners. The proposal, unveiled Tuesday morning, would fund the program into the 2050s by increasing the Medicare tax rate from 3.8 to 5 percent for households making more than $400,000 a...

Everybody knows the power of the White House. What happens in the White House can help influence matters as important as how nations treat one another and how we deal with climate change to less serious matters like how we dress and how much exercise we get. And, as Alex Prud’homme relates in his new...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made a surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday, amid his wider, multiday trip to the Middle East. “Wheels down in Baghdad,” Austin tweeted after landing in the Iraqi capital. “I’m here to reaffirm the U.S.-Iraq strategic partnership as we move toward a more secure, stable, and sovereign Iraq.” Austin reportedly met...