President Joe Biden will not pardon his son Hunter if he is convicted of the charges against him, the White House said on Thursday. Hunter Biden has been charged with two misdemeanor tax offenses and a felony gun charge. When asked during her briefing whether there was any possibility that the president would eventually pardon … Read more
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Twenty-five U.S. Republican lawmakers urged President Joe Biden on Thursday to increase funding for the country’s submarine fleet, citing the recent three-nation AUKUS project to supply Australia with nuclear-powered submarines and concern about China’s increasing military might. “We support the vision of the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) partnership and … Read more
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed a fiscal 2024 appropriations bill for military construction and veterans affairs on Thursday, the first of 12 spending measures that Congress must enact by Oct. 1 or risk a government shutdown. The House voted 219-211 to approve the $155.7 billion military construction and … Read more
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is once again being hounded with questions about his health after freezing for roughly 28 seconds during a press conference on Wednesday. The 81-year-old Kentucky Republican, who is the longest-serving party leader in Senate history, had to be escorted away from a lectern by colleagues in a startling moment that came … Read more
House Republican leaders plan to give up on trying to pass a second government funding bill and are expected to leave Washington later Thursday, hamstrung by conservative demands for more spending cuts and internal division over social issues like abortion. Three senior GOP lawmakers, discussing private conversations on condition of anonymity, said party leaders have … Read more
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s lawyers Todd Blanche and John Lauro met Thursday with Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team to discuss what made the former president a target of the investigation of potential election fraud in the 2020 election, according to a source familiar with the meeting. Legal experts described this type of meeting … Read more
By Hannah Lang (Reuters) – The top Republican and Democrat on the U.S. House Financial Services committee on Thursday said they had failed to come to an agreement on a bill to establish a federal regulatory framework for stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency typically pegged to a traditional asset, often the U.S. dollar. The bill … Read more
Former Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks said he’s somewhat surprised that he hasn’t been interviewed by special counsel Jack Smith in the Justice Department’s investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Brooks, who left the House this year after losing the GOP primary for an Alabama Senate seat, told NBC News … Read more
WASHINGTON — In the final month of his 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden stood before a drive-in crowd in Toledo, Ohio, and announced he had “a chip on my shoulder” about people with fancy college degrees. He would, Biden said, be the first president in “80 or 90 years” without an Ivy League degree — … Read more
President Trump campaigned for Ron DeSantis before Florida’s governor became a political rival. Despite their competition, DeSantis won’t debunk Trump’s stolen-election lie. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images) Some things are so obvious, they scarcely bear mention. Birds fly. Fish swim. Politicians say things they hope will get them elected. That’s not as terrible as it … Read more