The federal judge who presided over the seditious conspiracy case against Oath Keepers members said Wednesday that it would be "frightening" if the anti-government group's founder, Stewart Rhodes, is pardoned for orchestrating a violent plot to keep Donald Trump in the White House after he lost the 2020 presidential election.
Donald Trump Jr. joined the growing criticism of a proposed short-term spending legislation to fund the federal government Wednesday, bashing a section that critics say would interfere with possible investigations of the defunct House Jan. 6 committee.
Legislation to restore full Social Security benefits for an estimated 2.1 million federal, state and local government workers and their spouses survived a key Senate test vote on Wednesday.
The Commerce Department's efforts to curb China's and Russia's access to American-made advanced computer chips have been "inadequate" and will need more funding to stymie their ability to manufacture advanced weapons, according to a report published Wednesday by the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
President Biden will turn over a slowing economy and a tepidly rising unemployment rate to President-elect Donald Trump, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday, describing the headwinds the new administration will face.
Could America’s Constitution be on the cusp of a massive rewrite? A recent article said that Democrats fear Republicans at the state and national levels will try to do so after President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. These worries are greatly overblown. However, they do point toward a constitutional mechanism that some well-meaning Americans […]
The U.S. mental health crisis is real. However, so is our opportunity to meet it. As Congress races to fund the government ahead of the holidays, it is imperative that it does not forget our nation’s youth. Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that 40% of high school students reported persistently […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) suggested Wednesday that Democrats will oppose any federal spending bill that strays from the bipartisan deal announced a day before, accusing GOP leaders of reneging on the agreement at risk of a government shutdown. In a brief statement, Jeffries invoked the growing conservative outcry over the negotiated continuing resolution...