A hot mic on Tuesday picked up what appeared to be a media member joking about the John F. Kennedy assassination while covering a legal proceeding for former President Trump. The unidentified voices were stationed outside the federal courthouse as they waited for the former president to arrive in Washington, […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., defended the spending deal forged with the Senate’s Democratic majority, telling Fox News that House Republicans “have to govern,” and understand the realities of a historically thin two-vote majority. Johnson underlined he remains a “conservative hardliner” just as he was as a rank-and-file congressman, despite […]

Low on law, high on theater. That’s the best way of looking at Hunter Biden’s Capitol Hill stunt Wednesday morning. The president’s son crashed a public meeting at which the House Oversight Committee was slated to vote on a resolution, based on which the full House would eventually hold him […]

Republican lawmakers threatened to hold up government funding in exchange for stronger border security during a press conference led by Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-M.D., Wednesday afternoon.  A bipartisan group of lawmakers began talks with White House officials in December, but have been unsuccessful in reaching a deal. “What you’re going […]

There was some ballyhooing on Sunday that bipartisan congressional leaders managed to avert a potential, partial government shutdown on January 20th. First of all, fat chance. This was a framework agreement. A number. Not a bill. Second of all, have you met Congress lately? Third, there may not be enough […]

The recently departed president of Norwich University, the country’s oldest private military college, violated the school’s core guiding values and policies, according to the board of trustees. Mark Anarumo submitted his resignation effective Jan. 4 and the board accepted it on Tuesday, trustees said. BROWN UNIVERSITY UNDER INVESTIGATION BY DEPT […]

A man who was being held at the problem-plagued Fulton County Jail in Atlanta died Wednesday at a hospital after he was found unresponsive in his cell, authorities said. FULTON COUNTY JAIL INMATE FACES ARSON CHARGES AFTER ALLEGEDLY SETTING CELL ABLAZE A jail officer doing a security round found Michael […]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council scheduled a vote Wednesday on a resolution that would condemn and demand an immediate halt to attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on merchant and commercial vessels in the Red Sea area. The U.S. draft resolution, obtained by The Associated Press, says at […]

About a dozen armed militants attacked a Pakistani police checkpoint on a northwestern highway before dawn Wednesday, killing three police officers and a civilian before fleeing the scene, authorities said. The attack on the Lachi checkpoint on the Indus Highway in Kohat, a district in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province […]

A continuing resolution (CR), a temporary funding measure passed by Congress to provide interim funding for federal agencies when the regular appropriations bills have not been enacted by the start of the fiscal year, is appearing more likely to avert a government shutdown next week.  This would be a blow […]