House Speaker Mike Johnson said alleged failures of state and local leaders should be a factor that determines any conditions on federal aid. WASHINGTON—Any disaster relief funding issued by Congress in response to recent wildfires in Los Angeles may come with policy conditions, House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Jan. 13. The wildfires, which began
A raging war in Ukraine and a smoldering Middle East did not stop outgoing president Joe Biden from touting his foreign policy successes in a farewell State Department speech on Monday. His administration, Biden said, successfully averted major conflicts across the globe and left the United States “more capable” and “better prepared” than ever before.
Special Counsel David Weiss' final report into Hunter Biden found that his drug use could not explain why he did not pay taxes across a four-year period.
Jacob Soboroff has appeared on NBC more than 30 times since the outbreak of the California fires Jacob Soboroff (Monica Schipper/Getty Images for NYU Langone Medical Center) An NBC News reporter at the center of a defamation lawsuit is leading the network’s coverage of the California wildfires. Jacob Soboroff, a national correspondent for NBC News,
The outgoing national security adviser said U.S. alliances have grown stronger as its adversaries weakened. Outgoing National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan lauded the Biden administration’s policies on Sunday, saying the United States is “safer” and “better off” than it was four years ago. Reflecting the administration’s performance days before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, Sullivan said
The Justice Department released Monday former special counsel David Weiss’ report investigating Hunter Biden. Attorney General Merrick Garland in August 2023 announced Weiss, then the U.S. attorney overseeing the investigation into Biden, had been appointed special counsel, giving him expanded powers to continue the probe. In submitting his report to Garland, Weiss stated that he had
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services subcommittee on personnel, presented more than 70 questions in a 33-page letter to Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary ahead of his confirmation hearing this week.