House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) has scheduled a hearing to consider a resolution holding U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress for not turning over documents detailing the August 2021 military withdrawal and civilian evacuation from Afghanistan. For months, Mr. McCaul has been seeking a variety of State Department
After a four year battle over the district lines, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed a new congressional map into law. After days of speculation, New York lawmakers on Feb. 28 approved a new congressional map, ending a three-year legal battle over the district lines—or, perhaps, kicking off another round of litigation. The new
President Joe Biden expressed doubt on Thursday that a ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict is just days away, tempering his own prior predictions amid recent diplomatic complications. Speaking with reporters while visiting an ice cream shop in New York on Monday, the president expressed high hopes for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, saying,
The bill is the fourth continuing resolution of this fiscal year, angering some Republicans who believe more should be done to curb government spending. The U.S. Senate passed a stopgap funding bill Thursday night and sent it to the desk of President Joe Biden for signing, narrowly averting another potential government shutdown that would have
The leadership of the Democrat majorities in both houses of the Maine State Legislature showed zero interest in a comprehensive election security reform bill put forward by Republican State Rep. Heidi Sampson. “They dispatched my bill in three and one-half minutes without explanation,“ said Ms. Sampson in an interview with The Epoch Times. ”They flat-out
The judge issued a new order to clarify the duration of a stay she ordered in her original decision. Former President Donald Trump will remain on the Illinois primary ballot pending an appeal after a judge issued a new order on Thursday clarifying the duration of a stay on her earlier decision to disqualify him.
No Labels has announced that it will meet on March 8 to decide whether to continue its efforts in the 2024 presidential election. The centrist organization, which is seeking alternatives to the two-party system on a “unity ticket,” told New York magazine that from the start, group leaders had planned to “regroup shortly after Super