More than 300 guests are attending the state dinner that President Biden and first lady Jill Biden are hosting for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, but outside of political luminaries, the guest list features few well-known names.

A resolution condemning Hamas's deadly terrorist attacks on Israel passed the House on Wednesday in a landslide bipartisan vote, marking the first legislation to move from the chamber since former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted three weeks ago.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday advanced Jacob Lew's nomination -- President Biden's pick for ambassador to Israel -- by a 12-9 vote, with most committee Republicans rejecting Mr. Lew over his support for the Obama-era nuclear deal that gave Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief.

House Republicans celebrated a return to legislating Wednesday after electing Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana to serve as speaker and ending weeks of bitter intra-party fighting over leadership that paralyzed the chamber.

U.S. Capitol Police charged Rep. Jamaal Bowman for pulling a fire alarm in a House office building on Sept. 30 and have referred the matter to D.C. prosecutors.

Mortgage applications have crashed to a level not seen in 30 years, according to an unsettling new report released Wednesday by the House Budget Committee and shared with Inside the Beltway.

Former President Donald Trump’s tax reform cut rates for everybody and reduced one particular tax break for the rich: the deduction for state and local taxes (abbreviated as SALT). Democrats and some suburban Republicans want to lift the $10,000 cap on the SALT deduction.

There’s a decent chance your doctor’s practice was bought up by a hospital in the last decade or so. Such consolidation has run rampant for years, and a new study looks at the impacts. The bottom line: Hospital consolidation results in higher hospital profits, higher costs to consumers, and maybe worse long-term outcomes for patients.

After a little more than three weeks, House Republicans have finally elected a speaker. He’s Mike Johnson, first elected to the House in 2016 from a district in northwest Louisiana. He’s almost unknown to the public, has a right-wing voting record, and has been a supporter of Donald Trump. He grills witnesses effectively but calmly, with no visible anger.

It was a subdued night as the White House appeared to try to balance hosting a state dinner for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese amid a backdrop of violent international conflicts. The White House had made the decision to scale back on the potential party-like atmosphere at the Wednesday dinner in the wake of the...