The City of Chicago announced Friday that 34 people will be leaving migrant shelters in the city Sunday, after receiving extensions from their originally planned releases earlier this year. “Our city is committed to compassion,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a statement. “By encouraging resettlement while also providing case-specific extensions with a focus on health...
Funding for a Kenyan-led multinational police force in Haiti could be an unintended victim of partisan budget fights on Capitol Hill, as Republicans resist Biden administration demands for an additional $40 million for a deployment to the Caribbean nation overrun by gang violence. Port-au-Prince has devolved into chaos, with Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigning this week and...
Democratic anger over Israel’s war in Gaza reached a new level Thursday with a dramatic speech from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on the Senate floor. Although he didn’t call for a cease-fire, America’s top Jewish leader opened a new broadside against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the war still raging, calling for...
Democrats are in survival mode in trying to rebuild the coalition that helped President Biden win the White House in 2020, working to bring critical voters back to the fold at this point rather than substantially trying to grow the base. The strategy is unfolding in part from Biden’s travel patterns and appearances. This week,...
The battle to become the Senate GOP’s nominee in Ohio against Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) is getting nastier by the day, just as former President Trump gets set to make his presence felt on Saturday. What had long been a three-way brawl appears to have winnowed down to a two-way race between as businessman Bernie...
Lawmakers are racing to reach an agreement on the final six full-year government funding bills, but they face a list of hurdles as they barrel toward a shutdown deadline Friday. The divided Congress just finished work on its first batch of funding bills for fiscal 2024 last week. But some negotiators see the tranche coming...
An area in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s district is being described as looking like a Third World country as migrants block up sidewalks selling items while prostitutes solicit sex.
Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., called "ridiculous" a claim made by Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., that he's leaving Congress early to hurt her chances of winning Colorado's 4th Congressional District.