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Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian American woman to serve in Congress, is demanding the International Criminal Court issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
She made the demand in a statement Tuesday, as Democrats are grappling with deep intra-party divisions over the state of the ongoing...
After a two-hour-long meeting Monday with the speaker, Marjorie Taylor Greene — and Capitol Hill writ large — could get a much better sense Tuesday of the future of her efforts to oust Mike Johnson from the House’s top spot.
Greene (R-Ga.), along with ally Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), met with Johnson in his office, but left wi...
A bipartisan group of 85 House and Senate members is lining up against the Biden administration’s push to shift space-focused Air National Guardsmen into the Space Force.
The lawmakers urged leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees in a letter Monday to reject the Pentagon push when their panels consider annua...
Rep. Henry Cuellar’s indictment marks the third high-profile Hispanic lawmaker to have been indicted in recent months. Critically, the influential Congressional Hispanic Caucus is coming to his defense.
That’s a marked difference from how the group treated Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a fellow member who was indicted on charges...
House Republicans are escalating their standoff with the Justice Department as they demand the audio of former special counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Joe Biden.
The Judiciary Committee will vote on May 16 on recommending Attorney General Merrick Garland be held in contempt of Congress, a person familiar confirme...
Rep. Jared Moskowitz aimed an off-color post at Kristi Noem — but ended up hitting himself.
Moskowitz posted on X Monday about a CBS interview with the South Dakota GOP governor, who's facing national scrutiny for an upcoming memoir that discusses her killing of her dog and falsely claims she met North Korean dictator Kim Jong...
Bernie Sanders will seek a fourth term in the Senate this fall, a move putting the best-known Senate progressive on track to win another six years in the chamber.
The 82-year-old Vermont independent and two-time presidential candidate is currently at the peak of his power in Congress, chairing the Senate's top health care com...
A dozen Republican senators have warned the International Criminal Court against issuing arrest warrants for Israeli officials over the nation’s conduct during the war in Gaza.
In a letter led by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), the senators warn ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan, citing reports that the court may be considering issuin...
Speaker Mike Johnson will face a vote this week on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to remove him from the speakership. But he is expected to prevail with the help of House Democrats and most of his GOP conference.
Greene (R-Ga.) pledged last week to take action and officially move her Johnson ouster attempt onto the floor...
Students protesting for Palestinian liberation have also referenced the legacy of student resistance and state crackdowns at inflection points throughout American history.
With a House floor showdown looming next week, Speaker Mike Johnson warned that a vacancy in the chamber’s top spot would be a “dangerous gambit.”
“I think it's wrong for the Republican Party. I think it's wrong for the institution. I think it's wrong for the country,” Johnson told guest host Alice Stewart during an interview ...
Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar was charged with accepting $600,000 in bribes from two foreign entities, according to an indictment released by the Justice Department on Friday.
The moderate Democrat said in a statement earlier that day that he will continue seeking reelection to his Texas seat and that both he and his wife are ...
