A Senate committee on Wednesday approved legislation that would prohibit federal regulators from penalizing a bank for providing financial services to a legitimate cannabis business.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said his cancer treatment has been effective in attacking the ailment, letting him return to work in a crucial week for House leadership.
As the Senate marches ahead with a bipartisan approach to prevent a government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is back to square one - asking his hard-right Republicans to do what they have said they would never do: approve their own temporary House measure to keep the government open.
Charging five Bulgarian residents of the United Kingdom with spying for Russia, the U.K. has provided new potential for a prisoner swap that might see Russia release journalist Evan Gershkovich and possibly also former Marine Paul Whelan. While I'm unaware of any direct conversations between the United States and the U.K. over such a swap, Washington has been talking with its allies as to any prisoners they might be willing to release in exchange for Gershkovich's freedom.
The United Auto Workers strike and the political posturing surrounding it expose that both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump simply aren’t up for the job, given both their misplaced priorities and their no-show campaigns.
Despite years of President Joe Biden's denials that he spoke with his son about his overseas business dealings or profited from Hunter Biden trading on the Biden family name, the House Oversight Committee has obtained evidence that in the summer of 2019, Hunter Biden listed his father's Delaware address on a wire transfer to receive money from his Chinese business associates.
Through crime classics such as Goodfellas or The Godfather, we’ve often come to romanticize mobsters for their wise guy, wanton indifference to the law, often overlooking the less glamorous ramifications of their escapades. Director Antoine Fuqua’s finale to the Equalizer trilogy, however, offers no such glamour, instead labeling their debauchery as a cancer.
Civil rights lawyer and researcher Martha Patricia Molina has documented 529 attacks on the Catholic Church by Nicaragua's dictatorship in the last five years.
Embattled Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) has asked to speak to the Senate Democratic conference on Thursday in an attempt to stem the growing political momentum among Democratic senators who say he should resign after being indicted on federal corruption and bribery charges. Menendez has already relinquished his post as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations...
Seven qualified Republican presidential candidates are set to take the stage in Simi Valley, Calif., Wednesday night for the party’s second primary debate, and the contenders are spending the run-up in the gym, with their families and listening to music. Sen. Tim Scott’s campaign told The Hill that he plans to spend time “in prayer,...