President Biden said he is not concerned about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) ability to serve, one day after McConnell froze up during a public event in Kentucky. "I spoke to him today,” Biden told reporters during a visit to Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters. “He was his old self on the telephone.” Biden...

The Capitol attending physician on Thursday said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is “medically clear to continue with his schedule as planned,” after he appeared to freeze up while taking questions from reporters on Wednesday. Brian Monahan, the attending physician, said he consulted with McConnell and conferred with the GOP leader’s neurology team. He...

The Taliban’s message is clear: Afghan women should be invisible.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) praised President Biden and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday after the department sent its recommendation to reschedule marijuana to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), a key step in reducing federal regulations on the drug. Biden asked the HHS to look into rescheduling last year, and the...

The Latin American roots in D.C. baseball run deep. So, why don’t the Washington Nationals broadcast their games in Spanish?

NewsNation, the cable news channel owned by Nexstar Media Group, has named reporter and anchor Blake Burman as full-time host of "The Hill," its recently launched daily politics and policy table talk program. Burman joined NewNation in January as its chief Washington correspondent after a five-year stint covering the White House at Fox Business. "Blake is...

A Saudi man has been sentenced to death over his posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, as well as his activity on YouTube — marking the latest crackdown on dissent in the country. The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the judgment was brought against retired schoolteacher Mohammed bin Nasser al-Ghamdi by Saudi Arabia's Specialized Criminal...

More than 200,000 customers in Florida and Georgia are still without power after Hurricane Idalia hit earlier this week, leaving downed power poles and debris in its path of destruction. As of around 1:20 p.m. Thursday, Florida had the most reported outages at 117,258, followed by Georgia with 86,316, according to outage-tracking website PowerOutage.us. Florida’s...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been cleared to resume his normal schedule after he froze during a press conference in Kentucky on Wednesday.

Ebenezer Baptist Church, which gives Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., a sizable allowance each month, has resumed evicting residents from its low-income housing at Columbia MLK Towers.