A pair of Senate Democrats is demanding answers from FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford on airplane evacuation testing that’s nearly two years overdue and his agency’s decision to allow airlines to be able to reduce the number of flight attendants on some long-haul widebody flights. They say their concern is that there may be more emergency
Scrutiny of lawmakers absent from Washington due to mysterious health issues is ramping up as two House members — Reps. Tom Kean Jr. (R-N.J.) and Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) — have missed weeks of votes. The absences come as leaders in both parties are encouraging full participation from their members, given the razor-thin margins in the…
Senate Republicans are furious that a bipartisan bill they passed to address housing affordability has languished in the House for weeks and undergone revisions that may doom its chances of becoming law before the November election. On Wednesday evening, the House unveiled new legislative text that would scale back the Senate bill’s restriction on institutional…
Vice President JD Vance speaks about protecting taxpayers and rooting out fraud during a rally in Bangor, Maine, on May 14, 2026. Travis Gillmore/The Epoch Times BANGOR, Maine–Vice President JD Vance highlighted broad anti-fraud initiatives he is spearheading and endorsed local Republican candidates while headlining a rally held at the Bangor International Airport on May
The U.S. Capitol in Washington on March 16, 2026. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday failed to pass a measure seeking to limit President Donald Trump’s military powers by a razor-thin vote. The chamber tied 212–212 on a war powers resolution introduced by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) that would have directed
A key factor, however, could be a forthcoming Senate parliamentarian ruling.
The Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision to withhold approval of a new skin cancer treatment fell like a hammer on doctors who treat melanoma and patients who saw that the drug had prolonged the lives of a third of the participants in a clinical trial. “It was devastating news,” said Trisha Wise-Draper, a dermatologist