National Politics

On Wednesday night, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy announced that the GOP would not remove freshmen Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia from her committee assignments, despite the views that she has espoused, which don’t even begin to approach rational thought or, for that matter, fit anywhere along the wide spectrum of acceptable political discourse.

Republicans in charge of taking back the House and Senate next year hope that a new message focused on reopening schools — and blaming Democrats and their allies in organized labor for continued closures — will lure back suburban voters who spurned them in 2020. The Republican Senate and House campaign arms, along with Republican

President Joe Biden is set to announce a series of significant changes to US foreign policy including measures on Yemen and LBGTQ rights during a speech at the State Department, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Thursday. Biden will announce an end to all American support for offensive operations in Yemen in his remarks, Sullivan

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter is publishing a memoir about his struggle with addiction that will be released in April. “I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love,” Hunter Biden writes in the book, according to its publisher, Gallery Books. “Beautiful Things” will be released April 6. The

Virginia’s state Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would abolish the death penalty, putting the southern state on the path to become the 23rd state to end capital punishment. The Commonwealth has executed more people than any other state since the Jamestown colony’s first recorded execution in 1608 for espionage, according to the Death Penalty

President Joe Biden on Thursday cited the importance of unity and faith during what he described as a “dark, dark time” for many Americans, as he continued the presidential tradition of participation in the National Prayer Breakfast. “For me, in the darkest moments, faith provides hope and solace, provides clarity and purpose, as well,” he

Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger criticized House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Thursday for not taking action against far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and said the GOP leader “needs to stand for truth.” “Kevin needs to be very clear that he’s going to stand for truth in this party,” Kinzinger told CNN’s John Berman on “New Day.”

President Joe Biden will visit the State Department Thursday to thank a workforce repeatedly maligned under the previous administration and present his broad vision for a foreign policy re-grounded in alliances and multilateral institutions. By making his first Cabinet agency trip to the State Department and not the Pentagon or CIA, Biden is aiming to

Rep. Liz Cheney survived to fight another battle but on a raucous and defining day, the appeasement of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene by House Republicans sent their party lurching further down the road to extremism. The moral crisis in the GOP after Donald Trump‘s exit from Washington was epitomized by a showdown that saw Cheney,

Two prominent affiliates of the Proud Boys face new conspiracy charges related to the US Capitol riot, and another was arrested Wednesday, as the Justice Department laid out a planning and funding effort within the far-right extremist group in a major court development. The Justice Department unveiled the new conspiracy charge in a federal grand

Domestic terrorism remains a concern for law enforcement heading into Super Bowl weekend, Department of Homeland Security Acting Deputy Secretary David Pekoske said as officials aimed to assure the public that the game and surrounding venues would be safe. “At this time, one particular area of concern is domestic violent extremism,” Pekoske said, pointing to

The Biden administration plans to announce on Thursday that it will increase the number of refugees who can come to the United States, a move toward building up refugee admissions after years of historic low arrivals under former President Donald Trump, according to two sources familiar with the plans. President Joe Biden, who pledged to

The United States has been unable to return some migrant families to Mexico under a pandemic-era border policy after a change in Mexican law concerning the detention of children, according to three Department of Homeland Security officials. The change presents an immediate challenge to the Biden administration as it grapples with increasing numbers of people

President Joe Biden pines for unity, but actually sharing power is basically impossible in a place where politicians build their careers fighting over it. That’s why, weeks after Democrat Chuck Schumer became Senate majority leader, Republicans are still chairing committee meetings. That will now end after Schumer and now-Minority Leader Mitch McConnell struck a power-sharing

House Republicans voted Wednesday night that Rep. Liz Cheney should keep her post in House GOP leadership after she defended her support for impeachment as a vote of conscience during a contentious closed-door GOP conference meeting. The secret ballot vote took place after some Republicans argued that Cheney should be removed from leadership following her

The legal review by the town of Palm Beach into the use of Mar-a-Lago as former President Donald Trump’s permanent home concluded that the original agreement among the town, the resort and Trump does not expressly prohibit him from residing there. In a memo produced by the town’s attorney and posted on the town’s website,

President Joe Biden said at the start of his administration that family conflicts of interest would not be tolerated in his White House, but not two weeks into his presidency, his brother’s actions as a part of his employment at a law firm in Florida are raising questions about how he’ll implement that pledge. Francis