White House: Biden Not Intending to Fire Defense Chief
White House: Biden Not Intending to Fire Defense Chief
US House Approves Plan to Avert Partial Government Shutdown
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 […]
Third Trump Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Georgia Election Interference Case
Jenna Ellis, a lawyer who supported former U.S. President Donald Trump’s baseless claims that he was cheated out of winning reelection in 2020, tearfully pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegally working to overturn his loss in the southern state of Georgia and agreed to testify against him and others in upcoming trials. Ellis, 38, became the […]
Nine Republicans Vying for Vacant US House Speaker Seat
Nine U.S. Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives – none of them well-known to the American public – announced by the Sunday deadline that they are running to become House speaker, the leader of the lower chamber of Congress. The House has been without a speaker for nearly three weeks after a hard-right faction […]