Despite an indicted Egyptian agent sitting in the United States Senate, we have evidently been unable to convince Egypt's military dictatorship to open up the Rafah crossing to civilian refugees in Gaza. Secretary of State Antony Blinken seems to have bought time to hold off Israel's necessary grand invasion into Gaza with President Joe Biden's forthcoming visit to the Middle East's sole democracy, but both Egypt and Jordan have remained firm in their commitment to keeping Gaza cordoned off from the rest of the Gulf.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) failed to secure the speaker’s office today when 20 Republicans voted for someone else in the first House floor vote since seven Republicans and every House Democrat voted with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from the speaker’s office earlier this month.

Mike Rowe has had one heck of a year, and it isn’t even over yet.

It would not be an international crisis under the Biden administration without Secretary of State Antony Blinken reminding the entire world that everyone can treat the United States like a doormat so long as he is around.

I noted last week that the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s movement from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea would indicate U.S. concern over possible threats from the Lebanese Hezbollah to U.S. diplomats in Beirut and to Israel’s northern border.

Between the border crisis and the unfeasibility of the idea, the answer to whether the United States should take in refugees from Gaza should be an absolute, unequivocal "no."

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic present themselves as the ultimate nationalist strongmen, leaders who always put their respective nations, people, and values first. Nonsense.

A quick recap of the day and what to look forward to tomorrow {beacon} Evening Report   © SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Jordan tries to rally support ahead of second Speaker vote TWENTY REPUBLICANS voted for someone other than Speaker-designate Jim Jordan on Tuesday afternoon, with the Ohio Republican scrambling to shore up support ahead of an...

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) said Tuesday that the GOP pressure campaign to elect Rep. Jim Jordan as Speaker backfired after the Ohio Republican failed to clinch the necessary votes on the first ballot.  “I believe it was. I've talked to a couple of members where they felt that — that's just not what they needed,”...

A Georgia judge Tuesday rejected a variety of attempts by Trump-aligned lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell to get their 2020 election interference charges thrown out.  The ruling from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee — which found that the defendants did not establish a “defect in the substance or form of the indictment” —...