Don't hand China a victory in the Pacific
It has been about 80 years since the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, a bloody struggle against Japan that cost thousands of Americans their lives. Today, Congress is poised to squander their...
View ArticleLawmakers scale back scope of AI legislation push, Todd Young says
The Senate plans to pursue a slew of more limited artificial intelligence-focused bills instead of one major bill, according to a key Republican negotiator in the process, indicating that Congress will...
View ArticlePeter Navarro, Trump White House official, gets 4-month sentence for defying...
WASHINGTON — Trump White House official Peter Navarro, who was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S....
View ArticleDutch Ruppersberger, longtime Maryland Democrat, to retire from Congress
TIMONIUM, Md. — Maryland U.S. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger announced Friday that he won’t seek a 12th term in Congress.The 77-year-old Democrat, who has represented the 2nd District since 2003, said...
View ArticleWashington eyes giving Commerce Department new spy powers to stop tech drain...
It’s not just about business anymore.Efforts to transform the Commerce Department into America’s “19th intelligence agency” are quietly under consideration in Washington as lawmakers and Biden...
View ArticleMayorkas impeachment: GOP unveils articles accusing DHS secretary of lying,...
House Republicans revealed two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday, accusing him of breaching the public trust through dishonesty and systematically...
View ArticleGOP's fury at 'smug' secretary fuels Alejandro Mayorkas impeachment
Rep. Ashley Hinson, facing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at a committee hearing last year, checked off a list of border failures: criminal immigrants surging into the U.S., rising...
View ArticleWhite House pushes back on GOP efforts to sink immigration compromise
The White House on Monday accused House Speaker Mike Johnson of flip-flopping on immigration, pushing back on Republican efforts to scuttle compromise legislation aimed at reducing the number of...
View ArticleAlejandro Mayorkas lashes out at GOP ahead of first impeachment vote in House...
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas erupted at congressional Republicans on Tuesday ahead of a first impeachment vote, saying he would not countenance “politically motivated accusations and...
View ArticleRon DeSantis calls for Ilhan Omar's expulsion from Congress, deportation over...
Ron DeSantis doesn’t just want Ilhan Omar out of the U.S. Congress, he just plain wants her out of the U.S.The Florida governor called Tuesday for Ms. Omar’s expulsion in reaction to a video in which...
View ArticleAI on the Hill: Lawmakers ponder how hot new technology can help
Can technology make Congress artificially intelligent?The House of Representatives is exploring its own generative AI model for internal use, as Congress looks for ways to use new tech tools to...
View ArticleGOP tax relief bill in name only
When Democrats rammed the deceptively named Inflation Reduction Act through Congress in 2022, they were rightly criticized because the law caused consumer prices to go up, not down. Now, Republicans...
View ArticleSenators reach for border deal, House prepares impeachment in momentous week...
Senators were rushing to finalize a deal to stiffen border security Sunday evening ahead of what is shaping up as the most momentous week in immigration policy in Washington in nearly four...
View ArticleBiden rewriting Scripture for political purposes
President Biden's gaffes and flip-flops on issues would fill a book, but he combined several categories of verbal meanderings at last week’s National Prayer Breakfast.The gathering took place in the...
View ArticleSenate immigration deal backtracks on border wall deadlines
Tucked inside the new Senate border deal is language allowing President Biden to postpone wall building and avoid erecting more barriers during this term.Hundreds of millions of dollars in wall money...
View ArticleAir Force sticks by Sentinel missile program despite cost overruns
The Air Force insists it is standing by its ambitious plan to replace all 450 of its Cold War-era Minuteman III missiles with the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile, despite massive...
View ArticleJoe Biden's vow of affordable internet for all is threatened by the looming...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Biden recently traveled to North Carolina to promote his goal of affordable internet access for all Americans, but the promise for 23 million families across the U.S. is on...
View ArticleGOP says Biden enough power to control the southern border. The reality is...
WASHINGTON — Build more wall. Reinstate Trump-era immigration policies. Or simply shut down the U.S.-Mexico border.Congressional Republicans argue that President Joe Biden already has all the authority...
View ArticleNAACP, historians spar over whether Civil War's insurrection clause applies...
Americans are about to get an intense history lesson, courtesy of former President Donald Trump and those trying to keep him off the ballot this year under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.Written in...
View ArticleGOP's debt deal, migrant labor boom tamed government spending -- for now
Uncle Sam's budget looks a bit better this year after Congress ordered spending to be constrained and the economy hummed along, powered in large part by the massive surge of migrants, the Congressional...
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