President Biden gave his condolences for the announced death of dual U.S. Israeli citizen Itay Chen, who was killed in the Oct. 7 strike in Israel. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Tuesday that Chen, who was thought to be among the Hamas hostages alive in Gaza, had died at the onset of the war...

Preemptively addressing such an ideology at home is like a vaccination that introduces the disease in order to ward it off. 

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is pressing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to schedule a vote on the reauthorization of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), which the Senate passed with 69 votes last week. Johnson and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) opposed an earlier version of the legislation that the Senate attached to the National...

The Biden administration on Tuesday announced it will send Ukraine a new emergency military aid package worth $300 million, the first such weapons tranche Washington has sent an increasingly desperate Kyiv since late December. “Ukrainian troops have fought bravely are fighting bravely throughout this war, but they are now forced to ration their ammunition under...

Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) will retire from Congress next week, he announced Tuesday, a move that will narrow the House GOP’s razor-thin majority even further. Buck — who has become known for breaking from his party on a number of issues, especially the topic of election denialism — announced last year that he would depart the...

A California Democrat is marking Women’s History Month with a tribute on the House floor to “one of the most influential Latin artists of all time,” singer Selena. “Few artists have shaped American and Latin music like Selena Quintanilla-Pérez,” Rep. Robert Garcia said Tuesday on the floor of the House. “The queen of Tejano music — who...

Congress must hold the Postal Service accountable and remedy this problem. Last week, Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and I introduced bipartisan legislation, the Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act, which would codify the inspector general’s primary recommendation. 

Special counsel Robert Hur clarified Tuesday that his report did not “exonerate” President Biden in his handling of classified materials as some Democrats claimed, though he ultimately did not find charges were warranted. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, used his opening remarks to say Hur’s report “represents the...

The reality is that crimes of rape and sexual violence are notoriously difficult to document or verify, even in non-conflict settings.

Democrats on Tuesday sought to turn the tables on Republicans who zeroed in on special counsel Robert Hur’s commentary on President Biden’s memory, turning repeatedly to video clips of former President Trump mangling words, mixing up individuals or forgetting details. House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) opened the hearing with a video montage...