House speaker vote live updates: Jordan presses his case ahead of third try

by admin | Oct 20, 2023 | Politics

Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — After House Republicans twice rejected Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker this week, he pressed his case ahead of a third vote Friday morning. Jordan, a conservative firebrand, staunch Donald Trump loyalist, House...

Biden, in rare Oval Office speech, says US ‘holds the world together’ amid wars in Israel and Ukraine

by admin | Oct 20, 2023 | Politics

Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — In a rare address to the nation from the Oval Office, President Joe Biden on Thursday night made the case to Americans that it’s vital to both global and U.S. national security to assist Israel and Ukraine...

Biden’s foreign aid package with $14B for Israel, $60B for Ukraine heads to Congress

by admin | Oct 20, 2023 | Politics

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — As President Joe Biden on Thursday made his case to the American public that success in Ukraine and Israel is “vital” to the U.S., the White House prepared a sweeping $105 billion foreign...

Michigan AG dismisses case against ‘fake elector’ in cooperation deal

by admin | Oct 20, 2023 | Politics

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images(LANSING, Mich.) — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office has dismissed the case against one of the 16 so-called “fake electors” charged in the plot to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the...

DHS office that counters nuclear weapons could close if Congress doesn’t act by December

by admin | Oct 19, 2023 | Politics

400tmax/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — An office at the Department of Homeland Security that helps detect biological and chemical weapons could shutter if Congress doesn’t fund it by December — an increasingly likely possibility as Republicans on Capitol...