Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) wrangled his raucous members to advance major legislation this week, but the rocky and turbulent deal-making process angered a number of House Republicans and left looming hurdles. The ambitious legislative agenda and the fights the bills were sure to spur led Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) to dub the week “hell week”…
A chaotic week has heightened grumbling about the embattled speaker’s leadership style.
New York City’s Commission on Racial Equity is shelling out $500,000 to “community groups” to “participate in a Reparations, Truth, Healing, and Reconciliation Network” that will help produce a study on reparations for black New Yorkers as well as a “Citywide Truth, Healing, and Reconciliation Plan,” records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. The
Vice President JD Vance and Sen. Ted Cruz make stops in Iowa this week, fueling 2028 presidential speculation ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Hundreds of foreign doctors about to complete training in the U.S. will have to leave the country if the federal government doesn’t rapidly process their visa waiver applications, which have been languishing since the fall and winter, immigration attorneys say. The waiver program, run by the Department of Health and Human Services, allows physicians who
ARLINGTON, Va.—A few months ago, Max Moore and his allies were voices in the social media wilderness. Their campaign to “Make DC Square Again”—an effort to return Arlington County and the City of Alexandria to the District of Columbia—was getting likes and reposts on X amid a redistricting battle in the state. But social media
Sign at a runoff election for Louisiana governor at a polling station at Quitman High School in Quitman, La., on Nov. 16, 2019. Matt Sullivan/Getty Images A federal lawsuit filed Thursday in the Middle District of Louisiana seeks to block state officials from suspending U.S. House primary elections after the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s