White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday will hold what is expected to be her last briefing before President Biden’s term ends. The briefing follows the news that a ceasefire and hostage release deal has been reached between Israel and militant group Hamas over its war in Gaza. The president gave remarks from the...
President Biden on Wednesday hailed a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel that would include the release of American hostages, marking a major diplomatic win in a foreign conflict that had come to define his final year in office. Biden delivered remarks from the White House hours after the first reports emerged that Israel and...
President Biden’s approval rating as he leaves office matches the lowest of his presidency in a recent poll from CNN. In the CNN poll released on Wednesday, 36 percent said they are supportive "of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as president,” matching an approval rating the president received in June of last...
The musical lineup for President-elect Trump’s inauguration weekend is full of country music stars and other big names, from Carrie Underwood to the Village People. Underwood will sing “America the Beautiful” at the swearing-in on Monday, American tenor Christopher Macchio will sing the National Anthem and Lee Greenwood, who is a longtime Trump supporter, will...
The Supreme Court weighed whether an explosion in online pornography requires repudiating the court's precedents concerning sexual content as the justices Wednesday heard arguments in a challenge to Texas’s age-verification law for porn websites. A majority of the justices suggested the concept of an age-verification requirement could survive First Amendment scrutiny even as the court seemed inclined to...
Russell Vought, President-elect Trump’s pick to head the White House budget office, downplayed his past comments about the usefulness of shutting down the federal government to achieve conservative policy aims. Vought, under pointed questioning from Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), said he would seek to avoid future government shutdowns as director of the Office of Management...
President Biden briefed the press Wednesday afternoon on the recent deal reached between Israel and Palestinian group Hamas for a ceasefire in Gaza and hostage release plan. An Israeli official confirmed Wednesday that a deal has been reached and predicted it would quickly move through a formal approval process. The agreement would open the door...
If Democratic senators think leaving the door ajar for RFK Jr. will get them points for bipartisanship, I recommend they find those opportunities elsewhere.
Energy secretary nominee Chris Wright was questioned by members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday as climate protesters interrupted proceedings.