Eagle Pass Mayor Rolando Salinas, Jr. signed an emergency declaration on Tuesday as a result of a purported surge in undocumented immigrants crossing into the Texas city on the southern border. In a press release, Salinas said the declaration allows the city to access more resources to help manage the influx of migrants at the...

Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is circulating a proposal to re-establish the Senate’s dress code, which Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) loosened over the weekend to allow senators to wear whatever they want on the Senate floor, according to senators familiar with the proposal. One person familiar with the resolution said it would...

Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden, will have to appear in person at his arraignment in Wilmington, Del., next month, after a judge on Wednesday rejected his attempts to appear virtually. The younger Biden “should not receive special treatment in this manner — absent some unusual circumstances," federal Judge Christopher Burke wrote in his...

A government contractor has been arrested on espionage charges for allegedly spying on the U.S. for a foreign government. Abraham Teklu Lemma, 50, is a naturalized citizen of Ethiopian descent and worked as an IT Help Desk technician for the State Department. He was charged with aiding a foreign government by conspiring to deliver and...

Trump and Biden could mutually agree to drop from the race subject to these conditions.

The Senate wrapped up work Thursday on three top military nominations as lawmakers look to work around the holds put in place by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) on hundreds of promotions for officers. Senators confirmed Gen. Eric Smith to become the next commandant of the Marine Corps Thursday afternoon in a 96-0 vote. That followed...

President Biden’s reelection campaign called out former President Trump for rooting for a government shutdown, saying that he doesn’t care about the ramifications for families. Trump on Wednesday called on Republican lawmakers to use the looming government funding deadline as an opportunity to withhold funds from the Justice Department (DOJ).  “Donald Trump is rooting for a government...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) declined a request from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to address Congress Thursday, saying there was not enough time. "Zelensky asked us for a joint session; we just didn't have time," McCarthy told reporters on Capitol Hill, according to videos of the exchange. The comments come as the House is struggling to...

House lawmakers are told not to expect any more votes this week amid chaos over how to fund the government.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who once championed the state's sanctuary status, told migrants to "go somewhere else," as she reconsiders right to shelter.