When asked about renewed funding for Ukraine in its war against Russia, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday he has “questions” for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Where’s the accountability on the money we already spent?” McCarthy said, listing off questions he said he will ask the Ukrainian leader when he meets with him later this...
Former President Trump is expected to travel to Detroit next week in lieu of attending the second Republican primary debate, putting himself at the center of a major autoworker strike. Trump’s trip underscores how the former president has in some ways already turned his focus to a possible general election rematch with President Biden, with...
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) reportedly "took a bow” after admonishing a group of Senate pages in late July who were lying on the floor of the Capitol Rotunda, Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis) said Monday after reviewing surveillance footage. When describing the surveillance footage to local news outlets, Pocan said Van Orden stopped the tour...
The group behind the lawsuits that led the Supreme Court to gut affirmative action at higher education institutions sued the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday, seeking to end the school’s race-conscious admissions policies. The Supreme Court’s landmark affirmative action ruling in June did not apply to the nation’s military academies, but the...
Azerbaijan launched a military campaign Tuesday in what the country called an "anti-terrorist" operation in the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region, the site of two previous wars with Armenia. The Azerbaijan military operation is stoking fears that a major war is on the horizon and could complicate geopolitical tensions for Russia, which has played a peacekeeping role...
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A Democratic lawmaker revealed the party's "nightmare scenario" for President Biden's re-election bid in an anonymous interview with the Washington Post.