Rep. Rich McCormick, a first-term GOP lawmaker known for doing pullups on railings suspended hundreds of feet above ground in the U.S. Capitol dome during a tour, once fought off rivals known as "Turbo," "Hawk," "Laser" and "Nitro" when he was a contestant on the TV competition show "American Gladiators."
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) hit back at former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday after he said she needs help “to straighten out her life” last week, twisting the insult into a fundraising pitch. McCarthy went after Mace last Tuesday in a Capitol Hill visit. The pair have long feuded after she was one of...
California regulators have released official plans for phasing out fracking in the Golden State — nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) declared his intentions to do so. The proposed regulation would amend the state's Public Resources Code by including a clause "to phase out permits to conduct well stimulation treatments," according to a notice from...
Alexei Navalny's death is a significant blow to opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime, but he wasn't the only person pushing for change in his country. Navalny, whose death in a remote Arctic penal colony on Friday has been blamed on Putin, silenced the most famous internal critic of the Russia leader at the young...
The publisher of The New York Times acknowledged in a recent interview that the White House has been unhappy with how the newspaper has been covering President Biden and concerns about his age. "We are just stating the truth fully and plainly, but we are also doing that in a way that is unemotional. We...
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Monday touted his role in driving several high-profile members of Congress from the legislative body, pointing to their departures as evidence of his success. In a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Gaetz said he loves a recent CNN article that reported on the trend of “rising stars”...
The European Commission opened a formal investigation to review whether the social media app TikTok violated new rules in place that aim to protect minors online, it announced Monday. The investigation will review if TikTok, owned by the Chinese-based parent company ByteDance, breached the Digital Services Act (DSA), the EU’s new online children protection...
Israeli officials appear to have set a deadline to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah — the largest refugee camp in the coastal territory — for the Muslim holy day of Ramadan on March 10. Benny Gantz, a member of the Israeli war Cabinet, delivered an ultimatum at a Sunday event with the Conference...