House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday appeared to turn the tide for an imperiled bill to renew the government's chief spying powers with small tweaks to placate Republican holdouts.
A Mexican drug cartel used death threats to force a tribal leader to back out of testifying to Congress this week, according to another tribal leader who did show up to tell lawmakers just how much power the drug lords have accumulated.
Former President Donald Trump pines for debates with President Biden as Election Day approaches. "The country is in such trouble. What are Biden's plans? I would fully accept any debate, anywhere, anytime, anyplace," Mr. Trump told Fox News Digital on Thursday.
President Biden hosted the first-ever summit between the leaders of the U.S., Japan and the Philippines on Thursday in a major show of solidarity against China's military aggressiveness in the South China Sea.
Former President Donald Trump's campaign wrote a letter Thursday to the Commission on Presidential Debates urging the panel to move up the dates of the general election debates.
Senate Republicans created procedural headaches Thursday for Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer to protest Democrats' plan not to hold a full impeachment trial for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The House Democratic leader on Thursday said his troops won't come to House Speaker Mike Johnson's aid to salvage a bill to reauthorize the government's chief spying powers.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was in Washington on Thursday to discuss artificial intelligence policy on Capitol Hill, where efforts to write new laws to govern AI have slowed to a crawl.