The new $325 million appropriation comes as Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives are increasingly reluctant to approve assistance for Kiev
His latest attempt to move ahead with a traditionally popular defense funding bill as a first step toward keeping the government funded was shattered by a core group of Republicans who refused to vote with the increasingly endangered speaker
The U.S. government has also stepped up security at the border, deploying 800 more officers who will stop irregular crossings and accelerate the expulsion of families
The president pushed the prime minister to find a compromise on a planned deep judicial reform that has set off protests in Israel and concerns in Washington
In an announcement Wednesday, the White House said the program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels and do other work to boost conservation
While GOP representatives accused him of the ‘weaponization’ of the Justice Department, Garland responded: ‘Our job is not to take orders from the president, from Congress, or from anyone else, about who or what to criminally investigate’
In New York City alone, thousands of migrants have arrived over the past year. Mayor Eric Adams has increasingly sounded alarms, while Gov. Kathy Hochul is floating the idea of state-issued work permits
The hearing is expected to focus on ‘constitutional and legal questions’ that surround the allegations of Biden’s involvement in his son Hunter’s overseas businesses
Joe Biden has had little to say about his son’s legal woes — which now include a felony indictment — beyond that Hunter did nothing wrong and he loves his son
‘I ask you this: If we abandon the core principles of the United States to appease an aggressor, can any member state in this body feel confident that they are protected?’ Biden said in his address before the United Nations General Assembly
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said that Ukrainian aid must be considered as a stand-alone bill. But the Senate is on a path of combining it with other priorities, possibly as part of the short-term spending bill to keep the government funded
The child, whose biological parents died in a U.S. raid, remains in the custody of an American military family, despite the fact that a court declared the adoption void and her relatives are asking for her return
GM warned that 2,000 UAW-represented workers at an assembly plant in Kansas City are ‘expected to be idled as soon as early this week’ because of a shortage of supplies from another plant near St. Louis, where workers walked off on Friday
The president’s son is arguing that two agents violated his right to privacy when they publicly aired his tax information as they pressed claims that a federal investigation into his business dealings had been improperly handled
While both parties engage in gerrymandering, the dynamics in North Carolina and Wisconsin go beyond mere redistricting fights and offer a vivid illustration of how Republicans are attempting to maintain power regardless of their level of support among voters
The White House said in a statement that Jake Sullivan and Chinese envoy Wang Yi had “candid, substantive and constructive discussions”. The two officials spent about 12 hours together over two days in Malta