House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared at the courthouse with Trump and used his bully pulpit to turn his political party against the rule of law by declaring the Manhattan criminal trial illegitimate.
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It was his first formal news conference that Western media were allowed to attend since the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022.
The bipartisan vote to continue funding the federal government survived a revolt by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s right flank.
Iran’s foreign minister called on Israel to stop its counterattack on Hamas terrorists, warning that the war might expand to other parts of the Middle East.
Donald Trump and several allies were indicted in Georgia on Monday, accused of scheming to illegally overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.
The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday after having raised it 10 straight times to combat high inflation. But in a surprise move, the Fed signaled that it may raise rates twice more this year, beginning as soon as next month.
The White House says lawyers for President Joe Biden found more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, than previously known.
“The common cause that we have to address is climate change induced lower flows,” commission Chair Anne Castle said. “That’s what we have to work on together. It’s not an enemy that we can defeat. It’s one that we have to live with.”
Twenty students and six teachers died in the 2012 massacre at the Newtown, Connecticut, school which shocked the nation.
She has been detained in Russia since February, and the U.S. government is under pressure at home to do more to secure her freedom.
Transport helicopters began landing Sunday morning at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul while diplomatic vehicles left the compound amid the Taliban advances on the Afghan capital.
The first installments of the newly expanded federal child care tax credit will start arriving on Thursday
Reality Winner, 29, has been moved to home confinement and remains in the custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons.
Elise Stefanik, a moderate turned Trump loyalist, was elected as expected to the No. 3 post that Liz Cheney held for over two years.
The clots occurred in strange places, in veins that drain blood from the brain, and in people with abnormally low levels of clot-forming platelets.
