House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., finds himself between a rock and a hard place: Between Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and the United States Senate. ‘You cannot be the Republican Speaker of the House while you’re…
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Forget Swift’s Eras Tour, Taylor looks likely to bring this extra new angle to the stage in 2024
No matter what you think of Taylor Swift — her music isn’t on any of my playlists — you don’t have to be a Swiftie to recognize that her appeal has become a cultural phenomenon.…
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Tensions reach boiling point in House GOP meeting hours before expected government shutdown
House Republicans left a closed-door conference meeting on Friday night frustrated and with no clear path forward on averting a government shutdown. Government funding runs out at the end of the day today, and it’s…
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A short-term government funding bill with uncertain odds is set to get a House vote today, as the federal government hurdles toward a likely partial shutdown this weekend. The House Rules Committee is meeting this…
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House finally passes defense spending bill and 2 others, while 1 fails in late-night vote series
House lawmakers voted to pass three of four appropriations bills brought to the floor on Thursday night, with defense spending passing along bipartisan lines while their bill on agriculture and FDA spending was sunk by…
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Conservatives call for GOP candidates to drop out after 2nd debate: ‘Time to thin the herd’
Conservative pundits reacted to Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate by calling for the field to narrow while also concluding, along with a poll following the debate, that Gov. Ron DeSantis is the candidate in the…
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GOP rebels, Dems sink House stopgap funding bill less than 48 hours before likely government shutdown
A group of GOP hardliners joined Democrats in sinking House Republicans’ stopgap funding bill on Friday, significantly raising the chances of a government shutdown happening over the weekend. A procedural vote to advance the bill…
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Gallagher rolls out ‘DADDY Act’ to block family of executive branch officials from foreign business work
EXCLUSIVE: House China Committee Chairman Mike Gallagher is introducing a bill that would block immediate family members of officials within the executive branch of the U.S. government from working for certain foreign companies. The bill,…
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The Biden administration unveiled a proposal to reintroduce grizzly bear populations in the federally-managed North Cascades National Park in northern Washington. The proposal — published in federal filings Friday morning by the National Park Service…
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Tributes poured in for longtime Democrat California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who passed away Thursday evening at the age of 90. Fox News confirmed Feinstein’s passing and was told flowers were placed on the late senator’s…