White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre held a press briefing for the first time since President Biden announced he would not be pursuing a second term and emphasized that his decision was not due to his health.  After sharing their condolences to the family and friends of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who passed away over the weekend, as well as condemning the killing of Sonya Massey, who was...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Former President Trump is back on the campaign trail Wednesday – with a stop in the crucial swing state of North Carolina. But the Republican presidential nominee – in his first rally since President Biden’s blockbuster announcement Sunday that he was suspending his re-election bid and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him as the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer – is facing a dramatically altered...

The fight to avoid a government shutdown is again bringing out the fault lines within the House GOP’s razor-thin majority. House Republican leaders sought to avoid another messy, drawn-out battle over federal funding this year by rolling out an ambitious schedule to pass all 12 individual appropriations bills before the annual August recess. That effort has been all but derailed; rank-and-file Republicans are frustrated that GOP rebels are...