House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) said a vote to select a new Speaker of the House is expected Tuesday at noon, Reuters reported. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) secured the Republican nomination for the seat on Friday after House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), who had won the Republican nomination for the role, dropped out of the...

President Biden is expected to travel Monday to GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert’s district in Colorado to tout his economic agenda. The president heads to Pueblo in Colorado’s 3rd District to visit CS Wind, the largest wind tower manufacturer in the world, according to the White House. Biden will deliver remarks on what the administration touts...

President Biden said in a new interview that it would be a "big mistake" if Israel once again occupied Gaza as it fights the militant group Hamas following an attack and subsequent war that has left thousands dead. “I think it'd be a big mistake,” Biden said when asked by CBS’s Scott Pelley on "60...

President Biden in a new interview dismissed the idea that the United States could not simultaneously support Israel in its war against Hamas and Ukraine in its war against Russia. "We're the United States of America for God's sake, the most powerful nation in the history — not in the world, in the history of...

The White House announced Sunday the appointment of David Satterfield, former U.S. ambassador to Turkey, to serve as Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues. Satterfield, in his new position, “will focus on ensuring life-saving assistance can reach vulnerable people throughout the Middle East,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement Sunday. The...

If Washington, D.C. is good at one thing, it’s making policy in the Beltway bubble that ends up hurting Americans in rural communities — communities like mine, here in Virginia. I am a fourth-generation farmer from Baskerville. I have raised flue-cured tobacco for more than 30 years. My forefathers grew tobacco — John Boyd Sr.,...

A showdown over the future of the world’s oceans and its hidden resources has been building over the past few years. The global community recently finalized a new United Nations (UN) treaty to conserve and sustainably manage marine biodiversity on the high seas and the deep seabed, yet at the same time the world seems...