Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) met on Wednesday with a group of moderate House Democrats to see if there is a way forward for a bipartisan approach to lowering prescription drug prices. The meeting took place in the office of Rep. Stephanie...
Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks (R) on Wednesday said his wife has sworn out an arrest warrant and accused a man who served him a lawsuit filed by fellow Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) of trespassing.Mo and Martha Brooks say Christian Seklecki of Georgia...
The United States has built 5.5 million fewer housing units over the last 20 years, falling short of historical levels in new housing construction, according to a new analysis published on Wednesday. The report, authored by the Rosen...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said in an interview published on Wednesday that he was "delighted" that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) was pushing for cheaper drugs to be imported from Canada.Speaking to Business Insider, Sanders said he was...
A federal judge has ordered an alleged member of the right-wing militia group the Three Percenters arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol to be released on bail. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth turned down a request from...
President Biden on Wednesday framed his three-hour sit-down with Russian President Vladimir Putin as a foreign policy win, even as tensions on cyberattacks and human rights loom over the future of the relationship b...
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday struck down two immigration opinions penned by his predecessors under the Trump administration, reversing limits on who is eligible for asylum.Garland’s post gives him the power to review decisions made...
President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin released a joint statement following their summit Wednesday agreeing to resume a dialogue on strategic stability on nuclear arms control.The decision to begin the new dialogue is one of the few...
The niece of Osama bin Laden on Wednesday protested the Biden-Putin summit with a "Trump Won" flag.
The CEO of Morgan Stanley this week said he expected company employees to return to the office in New York as vaccination rates continue to rise."If you can go to a restaurant in New York City, you can come into the office. And we want you in...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that she's still holding out hope that Congress can create an independent commission to examine the Capitol attack of Jan. 6 — and she'll give Senate Democrats a bit more time to try to rally the votes...
North Carolina's decades-old ban on abortions after 20 weeks is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court found on Wednesday.The decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit affirms the decision of a lower court, which first struck...
President Biden on Wednesday gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a custom-made version of one of the commander in chief's signature accessories: a pair of aviators.The sunglasses, given to Putin following the two leaders' first face-to-face...
President Biden on Wednesday called Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comparison of the Black Lives Matter movement and arrests of Jan. 6 rioters to the treatment of pro-democracy protestors in Russia as “ridiculous.” ...
President Biden on Wednesday warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that Moscow would face "devastating" consequences if dissident Alexey Navalny were to die in prison."I made it clear to him that I believed the consequences of that would be...
Computer trouble has halted views from the Hubble Space Telescope since Sunday as NASA struggles to fix the issue and get the observer back online.NASA said it has been attempting since Monday to fix what they believe could be a bad memory...
The clock is ticking ever louder for our Afghan allies.The United States’ withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan is well under way and now may be complete by July, well ahead of the original Sept. 11 target date. As we withdraw, Afghan nationals who...
Business groups are urging President Biden and Congress to push forward on bipartisan infrastructure negotiations, as talks begin to unravel.Chief executives at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable and National Association of...
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has given Democrats hope he could vote for a scaled-down version of S. 1, a sweeping election reform bill that Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) plans to bring to the floor next week.Manchin said Wednesday...
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Wednesday said he will not guarantee he'll support a fast-track process for a sweeping infrastructure package, rejecting a key demand by progressive senators who want such a pledge in order to support a smaller...
The Education Department said Wednesday that discrimination against transgender students is prohibited under Title IX.The Department’s Office of Civil Rights issued a notice of interpretation saying that it will enforce Title IX’...
Actress Rita Moreno defended Lin-Manuel Miranda during an interview this week after the “Hamilton” creator apologized over criticism that the newly released film version of his musical “In the Heights” lacked representation of dark-skinned Afro-...
Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, is set to hold a press conference with reporters Wednesday afternoon.The press conference, which follows a two-day meeting on monetary policy, is scheduled for 2:...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday compared the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the U.S. to pro-democracy protests in Russia led by opposition leader Alexei Navalny.“America just recently had very severe events, well-known events,...
President Biden did not extend an invitation for Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit the White House during their summit on Wednesday, Putin said at a news conference.The Russian president did not invite Biden to visit him in Moscow, either,...
