Politics

(WASHINGTON) — In a closed-door meeting with House Republicans on Wednesday morning, Speaker Kevin McCarthy reiterated to his conference that an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is on the table but suggested it is not yet imminent, according to multiple sources in the room. McCarthy, who earlier this week floated the possibility of an impeachment […]

(WASHINGTON) — A former intelligence community official testified Wednesday on an alleged covert government program to recover and reverse engineer crashed alien spacecraft. David Grusch, a member of a previous Pentagon office tasked with investigating unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, said he was informed of the alleged multi-decade program through his official duties, but was denied […]

(WASHINGTON) — In a shocking moment on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was unable to finish his opening remarks during his weekly press conference — and briefly left the event but later returned to take questions from reporters. McConnell, 81, approached the microphone and began a sentence about the National Defense Authorization […]

(WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration on Tuesday said it was canceling $130 million in federal debt for 7,400 students who went to a Colorado college that the government says lied about its successes. “These borrowers were lied to, ripped off and saddled with mountains of debt,” President Joe Biden said in a statement. It’s not the […]

(WASHINGTON) — As a dangerous heat wave continues to plague tens of millions of Americans across the country, one Texas lawmaker is pushing for heat protections, including water breaks, for those who work outside in the brutal conditions. Rep. Greg Casar, a Democrat, organized a so-called “thirst strike” on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, where […]

(WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration expressed a federal judge’s ruling striking down the Biden administration’s asylum policy that established a “rebuttable presumption” of asylum ineligibility. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said he disagreed with the court’s ruling. “It does not limit our ability to deliver consequences for unlawful entry,” he said. “Do not believe the […]

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A former intelligence community official testified Wednesday on an alleged covert government program to recover and reverse engineer crashed alien spacecraft. David Grusch, a member of a previous Pentagon office tasked with investigating unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, said he was informed of the alleged multi-decade program […]

(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump’s one-time personal attorney Rudy Giuliani won’t contest that he made “false” statements about two Georgia election workers in the aftermath of the 2020 election. The mother-daughter tandem of Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss are suing Giuliani for defamation, follow remarks he made accusing the pair of fraudulently […]

(WASHINGTON) — House lawmakers will examine unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs — better known as UFOs — in a rare bipartisan hearing on Thursday. “We’re not going to bring you in a saucer or a little green man. That’s not what it’s going to be about,” Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett, one of the two Republicans […]

(PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea) — Lloyd Austin’s arrival in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday marked the first time that an American Defense Secretary has visited the island nation reflecting its growing strategic importance as the U.S. tries to rein in China’s growing influence in the South Pacific. That competition with China has escalated American […]