Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) will back a resolution to empower Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) as he continues to work to shore up support for his Speaker bid, according to a source familiar. The move comes after Jordan failed on two ballots to get the 217 votes he needed to win the gavel and...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is slated to speak Thursday in New York. The speech comes as other Fed policymakers have suggested the central bank will keep interest rates unchanged at their next meeting in November. The Fed kept the 22-year high benchmark rate of 5.25 percent to 5.50 percent unchanged at their last meeting...
One Marine was killed in a homicide at Camp Lejeune, and a second was taken into custody on suspicion of being involved, the North Carolina Marine Corps base said. The base said the incident took place in an “on-base barracks room” earlier Wednesday night. Camp Lejeune law enforcement authorities apprehended a Marine suspected of being...
The Massachusetts House has approved a measure that would restrict firearm laws in response to a 2022 Supreme Court decision allowing citizens to carry guns in public.
Former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, one of 19 defendants in DA Fani Willis' indictment, pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor charges relating to the 2020 presidential election.
Josh Paul has resigned from the State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, in a lengthy statement on why he thought President Biden was wrong on Israel's war with Hamas.
Ex-FBI agent David Paitsel and Washington, D.C., real estate developer Brian Bailey were sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted of bribery.