House aims to vote on final funding measures ahead of shutdown deadline

Washington — The House is aiming to vote Thursday on the remaining bills to fund the government as the deadline to avoid another shutdown nears.  After weeks of working through funding measures following the longest shutdown in history last year, House and Senate appropriators released the text of the final four bills earlier this week.

What’s in Trump’s “ultimate long-term deal” on Greenland?

President Trump stepped back on Wednesday from his insistence that the United States needs to “own” Greenland to ensure U.S. national security.  After talks with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, he dropped his threat to impose tariffs against eight of America’s closest allies and then

Jack Smith set to testify publicly for first time at House hearing

  33m ago Testimony comes after months of Smith offering to appear publicly In an October letter from his lawyers to lawmakers, Smith offered to testify before both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. In December, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan of Ohio, subpoenaed him to appear behind closed doors