An independent congressional watchdog wants to dig deeper into separate campaign finance allegations against two lawmakers, Reps. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.). The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), an independent, nonpartisan committee that reviews allegations of misconduct against House members and staff, alleged Thursday that Ogles may have misrepresented a loan to his...
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.), who has been a key holdout in House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) tight race to continue his Speakership, said Thursday that she will decide Friday whether to vote for him. “I will make [the] decision tomorrow,” Spartz told a group of reporters in the Capitol, adding that she and Johnson met...
Former Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) penned a Thursday op-ed in The Wall Street Journal urging Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to initially focus their push to cut government spending on Congress if they want to have a lasting impact. President-elect Trump tapped Musk and Ramaswamy to co-lead the "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE), a commission...
Snowpack in the mountains of California is near average for this time of year, after a recent series of storms provided a much-needed boost to the region, officials reported Thursday. The season's first manual snow survey recorded 24 inches of snow depth and a snow water equivalent — the amount of water contained in snow — of...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has taken a swipe at Elon Musk’s defense of the H-1B visa program, which has driven a wedge between two factions of President-elect Trump’s most ardent supporters. Sanders, who has long argued for raising wages for workers in the U.S., criticized the wealthy tech entrepreneur’s elevation of the foreign visa system,...
President Biden repeatedly said White supremacy posed the greatest threat to the U.S., explicitly saying terrorist organizations such as ISIS could not compare.