Washington — The Senate is returning to Washington on Monday from a week-long recess as Republicans prepare to take the next steps in their plan to fund immigration agencies under the Department of Homeland Security without help from Democrats. But the addition of security funds for President Trump’s overhaul of the East Wing of the
Cole Allen, the accused White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter, pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him through his attorney Monday. Allen, who appeared in court in an orange jumpsuit and was shackled at the wrists and feet, is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump, assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon
Ahead of President Donald Trump’s trip to Beijing this week, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging him to confront Chinese leader Xi Jinping about political prisoners in China. The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), a bipartisan and bicameral panel, sent a letter to Trump on May 11, urging him to raise the unjust detentions
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Israel, on March 19, 2026. Ronen Zvulun/Reuters Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on May 10 that he hopes to wean Israel off U.S. military support within a decade. In 2016, under the Obama administration, the United States agreed to give Israel $38 billion in military assistance. The
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on April 15, 2026. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng this week ahead of President Donald Trump’s summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. In a May 10 post on
An election worker tears off ‘I Voted’ stickers during the Virginia redistricting referendum at Fairfax Government Center in Fairfax, Va., on April 21, 2026. AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson Republicans have regained the advantage in the national mid-decade redistricting battle after the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a map that sought to grow the Democratic majority
Maine’s far-left Democratic Senate nominee, Graham Platner, has leaned on his career as a “working-class” oyster farmer to cast himself as a blue-collar everyman. His Ivy League business partner—who owns the secluded island where the farm is based—is, well, anything but. Robert Cushman III is an elite New England boarding school graduate who has described