The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday for legislation spearheaded by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to fund the government until early next year, wiping out the possibility that Congress will vote on another massive omnibus funding package before Christmas.  The bipartisan vote was 87-11, with 10 Republicans and one Democrat — Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) — voting in...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) suggested Wednesday that he is “considering” leaving the Democratic party in comments made just one week after he announced that he would not seek reelection to the Senate.  During an interview on CNN, anchor Kaitlan Collins pressed the West Virginia senator on whether he was thinking about leaving the party after...

Lawmakers were evacuated from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters Wednesday night after protesters clashed with police outside the building.  A handful of Democrats revealed on social media that they were among the lawmakers evacuated from the building on Wednesday night after protests erupted outside. Capitol Police said that its officers were responding to about 150 people...

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), chairman of the House Select Committee on China, said President Biden's assumption that China will become less aggressive on the world stage as it deals with its own domestic issues is a “stupid bet.”  “The President has been making that argument. It's a very dangerous argument, the idea that because Xi...

President Biden on Wednesday put his support behind Israel’s incursion into al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, saying that Hamas had committed the first war crime by making the health facility a command center of its military operations. “You have a circumstance where the first war crime is being committed by Hamas by having their headquarters, their...

Senate Republicans failed in their efforts to pass a resolution to overturn President Biden’s new student loans income-driven repayment (IDR) plan. In a 49-50 vote, all Republicans and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) voted in support of a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution that would have halted the Saving on Valuable Education (SAVE) IDR plan,...

Dozens of hostages being held by the militant group Hamas in Gaza may be freed under a possible deal struck with Israel, The Washington Post reported. Citing an Arab diplomat familiar with the negotiations, the Post reported that Hamas has agreed in principle to release at least 50 women and children they took hostage during the initial...

President Biden on Wednesday announced that he had reached three key areas of cooperation with Chinese President Xi Jinping, even as the president said he pushed hard on some of the most fraught issues between Washington and Beijing. The president described Xi as a “dictator,” following what appeared to look like a friendly bilateral summit...

U.S. Capitol Police officers worked to hold back approximately 150 protesters outside the Democratic National Convention (DNC) headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night. The Capitol Police said in a statement posted to X, formerly Twitter, that its officers responded to “approximately 150 people who are illegally and violently protesting” near Canal Street and Ivy Street,...

WOODSIDE, Calif. — After rattling off a list of perceived agreements made with Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Biden on Wednesday once again called his counterpart a “dictator” — a move that’s likely to agitate already fraught relations between the two powerhouse economies. “Look, he is. He’s a dictator in the sense that he’s a...