Joseph Biden

The White House and congressional leaders are working to ensure passage in time to lift the nation’s borrowing limit and prevent a U.S. default

After weeks of negotiations, he and McCarthy struck an agreement to avert a potentially devastating government default. The stakes are high for both men — and now each will have to persuade lawmakers in their parties to vote for it

‘We must never forget the price that was paid to protect our democracy,’ the president said in an address. ‘We must never forget the lives these flags, flowers and marble markers represent’

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden will now have to sell it to their respective parties. They have to make sure that the deal is popular enough to pass both the House and Senate without a revolt on either side

Though the government opened some new avenues for immigration, the fate of many people is largely left to a U.S. government app only used for scheduling an appointment at a port of entry

McCarthy said the House will vote on the legislation on Wednesday, giving the Senate time to consider it ahead of the June 5 deadline to avoid a possible default

Support from both parties will be needed to win congressional approval next week before the government’s projected June 5 debt default

Americans and the world are watching with concern the negotiating brinkmanship that could throw the U.S. economy into chaos and sap world confidence in the nation’s leadership

The House has set a Saturday vote to consider impeaching Paxton and suspending him from office over allegations of bribery, unfitness for office and abuse of public trust

As soon as June 1, Treasury says it could run short of funds to pay the nation’s bills. A federal default on the national debt would send the economy into chaos

The European Union is willing to collaborate in the deepening of the country’s economic reform

Both President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are speaking hopefully of the likelihood of an agreement to raise the government’s debt limit and avert an economically chaotic federal default

The initiative is centered around four goals: increasing awareness and understanding of antisemitism, improving safety for Jewish communities, reversing the normalization of antisemitism and building solidarity across communities

The rating agency Fitch has put the nation’s credit on ‘Rating Watch Negative,’ which amounts to a warning that it might downgrade the nations’ credit as a result of the debt ceiling impasse

Florida governor touts himself in video as the candidate of the resurgence with an apocalyptic message, but without naming Trump

“Robbing children of the chance to find their voices in literature is a violation of their right to free thought and free speech”, the poet wrote on Facebook in reaction to the news

The president said from a solemn White House memorial that too many schools, too many everyday places have become ‘killing fields’

Republicans are insisting on spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit, while Biden says the GOP lawmakers will have to back off their “extreme positions”

The Tuesday lawsuit is the latest legal attack against the administration’s plan to manage migration in the aftermath of the end of Title 42

Last weekend, the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, issued its advisory warning that recent laws and policies championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers are ‘openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals’

Without a political agreement between the Republicans and Democrats, the risk of default looms large, while shocks are guaranteed across the global market. Financial experts are advising clients to buy gold and keep cash on hand

‘No nation should bear this responsibility alone,’ the president said last year as he summoned the leaders of 23 nations attending a Summit of the Americas to come up with a shared plan on migration and security

Biden’s green light came after President Volodymyr Zelensky spent months pressing the West to provide his forces with American-made jets as he tries to repel Russia’s now 15-month-old grinding invasion

The Florida governor’s biggest rival in the Republican primaries is former U.S. president Donald Trump, who has a double-digit lead according to the polls

The families of the victims want to raise the age to buy semi-automatic rifles, such as the AR-15 used in the shooting, but the measure has been stalled by Republican lawmakers. Meanwhile, teachers say schoolchildren no longer go to the bathroom alone

Washington is racing to strike a budget compromise and raise the nation’s borrowing limit in time to avert a potentially devastating federal default as soon as next week

The drug, which is responsible for a record number of overdose deaths, began to make inroads in the 2010s, then skyrocketed with the Covid-19 pandemic. Dealers don’t know how to use it so they don’t kill their customers, says Sam Quinones, the great chronicler of the opioid crisis