House Speaker Mike Johnson relied on Democrats to pass a massive spending package Wednesday that will fund roughly half the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year and avoid a partial shutdown this week.
A former Virginia lawmaker has been acquitted of felony hit-and-run and malicious wounding charges after being indicted last year for striking his ex-girlfriend with his SUV after they argued.
House Republican lawmakers have invited President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, to testify in public this month alongside three former business associates who said his father played a role in securing lucrative foreign business deals.
March is typically the biggest month for college basketball. Yet if the members of the Dartmouth College basketball team have their way, the March Madness tradition of busted brackets could be changed forever. On Tuesday, the 15 members of the Dartmouth men’s basketball team took a historic step and voted 13-2 to become a unionized […]
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America is seeing its power decline. The group has had its grip on Western Pennsylvania Democratic politics for several years, but Tuesday night, it failed in an attempt to force Allegheny County Council to adopt a resolution to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. The […]
A group of at least nine Democratic lawmakers wore blue attire at the Capitol on Wednesday to express solidarity with the Israeli hostages still being held by the Palestinian militant group Hamas. “I wore blue today with my colleagues to stand in solidarity with the Israeli hostages because enough is enough,” Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) wrote...
New York executive Bruce Blakeman filed a lawsuit to block state Attorney General Letitia James from stopping his order that would ban transgender women and girls from participating in events at county-run facilities. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of New York, is on behalf of Nassau County residents Blakeman, a 16-year-old female volleyball player...
A federal judge in Texas has ordered a U.S. agency that serves minority-owned businesses to serve regardless of race. The ruling sided with white business owners who claimed the program discriminated against them. Judge Mark T. Pittman of the Northern District of Texas, who was appointed by former President Trump, argued that the Minority Business...