Politics

Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The chairman of the new Republican-led House Oversight Committee has issued a flurry of letters as part of the panel’s first formal steps toward a long-promised investigation targeting President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and social media companies that they allege sought to suppress negative stories […]

Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The revelation that classified documents were kept at the Biden Penn Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a Washington, D.C., think tank, has raised questions about how the situation involving President Joe Biden compares with the classified documents seized at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. Trump has […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House voted Tuesday afternoon to establish a new special panel to probe what Republicans call the “weaponization of the federal government.” The subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee would have extraordinary power to investigate any part of the federal government for perceived wrongdoing against conservatives — the Justice Department and FBI, […]

Hector Vivas/Getty Images (MEXICO CITY) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday said that he was “surprised” to learn that that any government records had been taken to a former personal office where classified documents were discovered in November. For the first time answering questions on the revelation that surfaced Monday — speaking a North American Leaders’ […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The new chair of the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday notified the White House that his panel is investigating President Joe Biden’s handling of classified records from Biden’s time as vice president — some of which were found in November at an office Biden had used in Washington, D.C. In […]

Hector Vivas/Getty Images (MEXICO CITY) — One day after President Joe Biden’s special counsel confirmed classified documents were discovered in Biden’s former personal office, the president had yet to directly address a key question: Did he knowingly mishandle classified material? Meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Tuesday morning in Mexico City, Biden ignored reporters’ efforts to […]

Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy and leading Republicans are expected to soon make good on a vow to keep three Democrats from seats on influential committees in the new House. McCarthy’s focus is Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, as well as Reps. Adam Schiff […]

Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans are wasting no time on their pledge to again try to bring articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over Mayorkas’ handling of immigration and the border. Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, initially filed a resolution on Jan. 3, the first day […]

MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York Democratic Reps. Daniel Goldman and Ritchie Torres on Tuesday filed an official complaint with the House Committee on Ethics calling for an investigation into New York Republican Rep. George Santos. “The House of Representatives has an obligation to police itself, and this is just the […]

Mindy Schauer/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democratic Rep. Katie Porter announced on Tuesday morning her candidacy for California’s Senate seat — currently held by fellow Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the longest-serving female senator in history. In her announcement video posted to Twitter, Porter said it’s time for new leadership in the […]