U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is facing a Senate trial in two weeks after Republicans in the House of Representatives impeached him by a single vote, blaming him for the tens of thousands of illegal migrants who have crossed into the U.S. from Mexico in the past year. The trial is set to unfold […]
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley are squaring off Wednesday night in a final debate ahead of next week’s first Republican presidential nominating caucuses in the farm state of Iowa, but the front-runner in the contest, former President Donald Trump, is again refusing to debate. Polls in the U.S. heartland […]
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 336-95 on Tuesday to approve a plan to avert a partial government shutdown on Saturday but at the same time push off contentious debates over spending priorities until early 2024. Current funding for all government agencies expires at midnight on Friday, forcing Congress and the White House to reach […]