Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene refused to drop her push to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson after they faced off in a tense closed-door meeting, but she still stopped short of forcing a vote to remove him from the chamber's top post.
President Biden is employing some personal diplomacy this week as he intensifies his efforts to build a network of defense alliances in East Asia to challenge China's growing influence and power.
A new bill signed by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) on Wednesday will make it illegal for a person to be in the state if they were previously denied entry to the United States or were removed from the country. The bill — SF 2340 — will make it a state crime for someone to...
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) on Wednesday credited the Republican push to overturn Roe v. Wade with the Arizona Supreme Court ruling that upheld a near-total abortion ban from the Civil War era. In an interview on Fox Business, host Larry Kudlow asked Ernst what she thought of the court’s decision to uphold the ban, noting,...
Frustrations are boiling over in the GOP conference after 19 Republicans blocked legislation to reauthorize the government's surveillance powers, a number that stunned Washington on Wednesday and sent GOP leaders scrambling for a Plan B to shore up national security protections before they expire next week. The tanked procedural vote sent House Republicans to a...
Democrats in Arizona attempted Wednesday to repeal a law banning nearly all abortions in the state that is set to take effect because of a state Supreme Court decision a day earlier, but they were blocked in both chambers by Republicans. The action took place in both chambers of Arizona’s Legislature. In the House, Phoenix...
A group of South Texas advocacy organizations sued the state to block a proposed land swap with SpaceX approved last month. The land swap would see SpaceX take over 43 acres of Boca Chica State Park near its Brownsville spaceport, in exchange for 477 acres adjacent to Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. The suit, filed...
U.S. workers are growing increasingly more detached from their employers, according to new data published Wednesday by Gallup. Less than one-third — 30 percent — of full-time and part-time U.S. employees in the Gallup survey reported feeling engaged at work, dropping 3 points from the 33 percent of workers who said they felt engaged in...
The Arizona Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a Civil War-era ban that blocks nearly all abortions in the state is roiling the Senate race to replace Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.). The Tuesday ruling upholding an 1864 abortion law that bars patients from receiving an abortion in nearly all cases also jails physicians who illegally perform...