President Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol unveiled at the White House Wednesday a new agreement designed to deter North Korea from launching a nuclear attack, including the deployment of a U.S. nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea for the first time in nearly 40 years.

With Congress and the White House butting heads on border security, a group of conservatives is pushing for Texas to break the deadlock by enacting an unprecedented new state-level enforcement regimen, including a first-ever state border patrol.

A Fugees rapper accused in multimillion-dollar political conspiracies spanning two presidencies was convicted Wednesday after a trial that included testimony ranging from actor Leonardo DiCaprio to former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Randi Weingarten, head of the nation's second-largest teachers' union, said educators were "terrified" during the COVID-19 crisis but rejected claims she strong-armed Biden officials to keep schools closed for longer than necessary in early 2021, drawing a rebuke Wednesday from House Republicans who said the advice was designed to keep kids home.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell backed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday in the burgeoning standoff with President Biden over the federal debt limit.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the business lobbying group historically aligned with conservatives, said Wednesday it does not support House Republicans' efforts to repeal Democrats' clean-energy tax credits in a GOP proposal to raise the debt ceiling.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and her cohorts in the Biden administration have routinely stated their dedication to stopping the spread of disinformation. Yet any legitimate, objective analysis of what Jean-Pierre says on a routine basis will show that she willfully engages in the very thing she claims to detest — spreading lies. It happens so frequently that one would think she lives in a fictional world that differs from reality.

President Joe Biden announced that he would run for reelection, but his 2024 campaign will more likely only serve as a vehicle to let Kamala Harris become president.

For the first time since the Cold War, Washington and Seoul have agreed that U.S. Ohio-class nuclear ballistic missile submarines will make frequent port visits to South Korea. The public message is that of deterrence against North Korea. But it's clear that U.S. deterrence of China also looms large.

A politician does not have to be a woman in order to opine on the abortion issue, but it's probably not a coincidence that it was the first woman to enter the Republican presidential primary who gave the most profound pro-life speech since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.