Hardline conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus are pushing GOP leaders to delay plans for a Wednesday vote on the "big, beautiful bill" carrying President Trump's agenda.

House Republicans are getting closer to passing President Donald Trump's tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security as Speaker Mike Johnson attempts to pass the package over unified Democratic opposition by Memorial Day.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to step in and shut down what the government called a "sweeping, intrusive" legal discovery process against Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, saying a lower court has turned the law on its head.

The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the U.S. is being asked to explain why it appears to be deporting migrants from as far away as Vietnam to a chaotic country that's once again in danger of collapsing into civil war.

The Trump administration said Wednesday it has flown a planeload of eight murderers, rapists and other "barbaric" illegal immigrants from all over the globe to South Sudan, and told a federal judge to butt out.

The Department of Justice said Wednesday it will move to release Minneapolis and Louisville from Black Lives Matter-inspired federal monitoring of their police departments.

Centrist Republicans from swing districts usually deserve a lot more leeway when it comes to their ideological purity versus the things they must do or say to keep their seats. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) has exhausted that leeway, demanding that taxpayers across the country subsidize the Democratic tax system in his own state. This has been the core of the […]

Members of the European Union have joined the United Kingdom in charting tougher paths than the United States toward Russia and Israel. Let’s start with Russia. On Tuesday, the EU and the U.K. introduced a new raft of sanctions targeting Russian individuals, energy tanker ships, and financial institutions. The sanctions follow a phone call between […]

EVEN AS HE FIGHTS CANCER, BIDEN OWES AMERICANS AN EXPLANATION. Former President Joe Biden‘s announcement that he is suffering from advanced metastatic prostate cancer landed awkwardly amid a debate about Biden’s physical and mental infirmity during his years as president. All of a sudden, people who were arguing that it was a scandal that Biden served […]

Predicting future events is difficult, but economists and election forecasters have made significant progress in recent years, with accuracy rates of 90 percent for five-day weather forecasts and 50 percent for ten-day forecasts, and 23 percent for economic forecasts, but the circumstances of the election can greatly influence the outcome.