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Conservatives dangle threat of ousting Speaker Johnson after foreign aid vote

House Speaker Mike Johnson's job appeared to be safe for the immediate future after ushering through a foreign aid package Saturday, but a few conservatives say they're weighing a threat to oust him in the future.

Senate Republican blasts House for passing foreign aid bills: Spending money ‘we don’t have’

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) blasted the House for passing foreign aid bills, arguing Congress is spending money that “we don’t have” and that the U.S. should be focusing on securing its own borders instead. “We're gonna further mortgage and plunder our children's future, over $100 billion,” Johnson said during his Saturday morning appearance on NewsNation. “We...

CENTCOM denies US behind Iraq air strike

US Central Command (CENTCOM) is refuting reports claiming the U.S. conducted airstrikes in Iraq following a blast at a military base in the country that killed a member of an Iraqi security force. “We are aware of reports claiming that the United States conducted airstrikes in Iraq today,” CENCTOM said in a Friday night post...

Nikki Haley welcomes husband Michael home from National Guard deployment: ‘End of a year-long prayer’

Former ambassador Nikki Haley and her family welcomed home husband Michael from a yearlong deployment to the Horn of Africa with the National Guard on Saturday.

‘Nothing more backwards’ than US funding Ukraine border security but not our own, conservatives say

The House of Representatives, on Saturday, passed a $60 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, though some Republicans take issue the bill did not address southern border.

House passes foreign aid package amid threats to oust speaker

Speaker Mike Johnson pushed a $95 billion foreign aid package to passage in the House on Saturday amid threats by the GOP's far-right flank that it'll move to oust him over it.

The House votes for possible TikTok ban in the US, but don’t expect the app to go away anytime soon

The House passed legislation Saturday that would ban TikTok in the United States if the popular social media platform's China-based owner doesn't sell its stake within a year, but don't expect the app to go away anytime soon.

Biden avoids a further Mideast spiral as Israel and Iran show restraint. But for how long?

President Joe Biden can breathe a bit easier, at least for the moment, now that Israel and Iran appear to have stepped back from the brink of tipping the Middle East into all-out war.

Conservatives, Democrats unite to kill Speaker Johnson’s fig-leaf border bill

House Democrats on Saturday blocked Speaker Mike Johnson's modified border security measure, voting to defeat the bill as lawmakers considered a broad foreign aid package alongside it.

This April 20 is high time to stigmatize public marijuana smoking like cigarettes

Step on any city subway, sidewalk, or even public park or library, and every observer with a functional sinus tract must admit: the great libertarian experiment to “legalize and regulate” marijuana has failed. It has not merely failed in the sense that reasonable instinctively want to protect their neighbors from themselves, as cannabis use among […]

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