Politics

(WASHINGTON) — While highlighting new and ongoing infrastructure investments across the country, President Joe Biden on Thursday continued to praise the recent GDP report that found the nation’s economy grew at a 3.3% annual pace — much more rapid than expected — and he gave credit to Americans for an economy that has exceeded expectations. […]

(WASHINGTON) — CIA Director Bill Burns will soon travel to Europe to meet with Middle Eastern officials as part of an ambitious push to lock down an agreement that would free all of the hostages kidnapped during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel that are still being held inside of Gaza in exchange for a […]

(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. and Iraq will begin formal talks in coming days that officials say could lead to the eventual withdrawal of American troops in the country, a major milestone in the years-long effort by the two countries to fight the Islamic State. The decision to move forward with the discussions, known as the […]

(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden invited Kate Cox, the Texas woman who was denied an emergency abortion by the state’s Supreme Court in December, to be a guest at the State of the Union, the White House announced Wednesday. Cox, 31, left the state to get an abortion after the Texas Supreme Court overturned a […]

(WASHINGTON) — The Republican-led House Education Committee kicked off its formal antisemitism probe of the University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday, which the committee called for after an explosive December hearing where three university presidents were grilled on allegations of antisemitism at their schools. In a letter addressed jointly to Penn’s interim president and chairman of […]

(WASHINGTON) — Immigration, one of the most politically divisive and complex matters in the U.S. for decades, is emerging as a top issue in the 2024 election. Look no further than Iowa and New Hampshire, two early-voting states thousands of miles from the southwest border. Voters there ranked immigration nearly as important as the economy […]

(WASHINGTON) — The GOP-led House Homeland Security Committee has conducted two closed-door interviews with two former Trump Homeland Security officials, as the committee prepares to move forward with articles of impeachment against Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas next week, according to two officials briefed on the matter. The two former Trump officials are Mark Morgan, who served […]

SimpleImages/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Maine’s Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who requested last week for the high court to consider her earlier decision to bar former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot under the 14th Amendment. Maine’s top trial court had just days earlier deferred ruling […]

(WASHINGTON) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley faced a growing chorus of calls from former President Donald Trump’s allies and other top Republicans to suspend her White House campaign in the wake of her double-digit loss to Trump in New Hampshire’s primary. But she’s fighting on, she says, with weeks to go — and […]

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) — New Hampshire has spoken — and with South Carolina’s primary approaching next month, voters are sharing their thoughts about the race between the state’s former governor Nikki Haley and former President Donald Trump — with one voter saying Haley would only get his vote if she is the last Republican standing. Trump is […]