(Associated Press) The top U.S. military officer told Congress on Tuesday that he knew former President Donald Trump wasn't planning to attack China and that it was his job to reassure the Chinese of that fact in phone calls that have triggered outrage from some lawmakers.
Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman...
(Associated Press) In his first congressional testimony on the tumultuous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday defended the military's execution of a frantic airlift from Kabul and asserted it will be “difficult but absolutely possible” to contain future threats from Afghanistan without troops on the ground.
Speaking...
(Associated Press) Republican senators blocked a bill to keep the government operating and allow federal borrowing, but Democrats aiming to avert a shutdown pledged to try again — at the same time pressing ahead on President Joe Biden’s big plans to reshape government.
The efforts are not necessarily linked, but the...
House Republicans are demanding that intelligence officials reveal the identities of the scientists behind a recent report on the origins of COVID-19, which downplayed the theory that COVID-19 escaped from a Wuhan lab.
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said lawmakers cannot have any...
(Headline USA) Richard Stuart, a longtime Republican state senator in Virginia, got three days' notice this summer to help pull together a weekday campaign event for Glenn Youngkin, the GOP candidate for governor.
To his surprise and delight, some 200 people showed up from across his district, which stretches from the...
(Brad Polumbo, Foundation for Economic Education) President Joe Biden and his progressive allies in Washington, DC are currently trying to pass one of the largest government spending plans in American history.
Yet they’re now bizarrely claiming that their $3.5+ trillion climate change and welfare proposal will cost... nothing?
In a White House...
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said this weekend that he hopes former president Donald Trump runs again in 2024, according to the Detroit News.
Just a few days after Trump slammed Graham for reportedly telling other Republicans that he believed Trump’s complaints about the 2020 presidential election amounted to grade school...
(Headline USA) The most closely watched attempt by Republicans to examine the 2020 presidential election in a battleground state has ended in a resounding victory in Arizona, and their efforts are cranking up elsewhere.
The most recent is in Republican-controlled Texas, where the secretary of state's office announced Thursday it...
(Headline USA) As congressional redistricting gets underway, some of the country's most populous cities are taking prominent roles in reshaping the balance of power in Washington.
And that's good news for Democrats.
Robust growth in the liberal strongholds of New York and metropolitan Chicago are poised to give Democrats an edge...
(Headline USA) With President Joe Biden's broad domestic agenda at risk of collapse, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday vowed that Democrats will pass a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill this week.
Then the Democrats will push ahead on the bigger $3.5 trillion welfare and climate change bill, though they...
(Headline USA) At a rally in Perry, Ga., on Saturday night, former president Donald Trump exposited on the results of the election audit in Arizona that exposed many examples of evidence of illegal voting at a hearing the day before.
National File reported:
The number of issues raised by the Arizona...
(Associated Press) Democrats pushed a $3.5 trillion, 10-year bill of progressive pet issues and climate programs through the House Budget Committee on Saturday, but one Democrat voted "no," illustrating the challenges party leaders face in winning the near unanimity they'll need to push the sprawling package through Congress.
The Democratic-dominated...