October 9, 2023, 5:38pm Politics
The death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein last month left a California U.S. Senate seat vacant and, seemingly, put Gov. Gavin Newsom in a no-win situation of his own making. Read story
October 9, 2023, 4:47pm Nation & World
The relentless conservative drive to dramatically cut federal spending — a campaign that nearly caused a government shutdown and helped topple House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — wouldn’t do much to significantly reduce the national debt anytime soon. Read story
October 9, 2023, 2:20pm Politics
Republicans have no clear idea who to elect U.S. House speaker, leaving an unprecedented power vacuum in Congress and severely limiting America's ability to quickly respond to the crisis in Israel — or any number of other problems at home or abroad. Read story
October 9, 2023, 1:15pm Latest News
Congress must pass more funding quickly for the U.S. to be able to give both Israel and Ukraine the weapons and munitions they both now need, a top Pentagon official said Monday, as the State Department raised the number of confirmed American deaths in the Hamas attack in Israel to nine. Read story
October 9, 2023, 7:41am Nation & World
To Rep. Mike Collins, China is a bigger threat to the United States than Russia. So the Georgia Republican has voted against providing military aid to Ukraine as he advocates for doing more to arm Taiwan, the self-governed island that’s at risk of military aggression from Beijing. Read story
October 8, 2023, 2:09pm Latest News
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday he has ordered the Ford carrier strike group to sail to the Eastern Mediterranean to be ready to assist Israel after the attack by Hamas that has left more than 1,000 dead on both sides. Americans were reported to be among those killed and… Read story
October 8, 2023, 1:13pm Politics
The Hamas militant attack on Israel and the massive retaliation it provoked from Jerusalem have thrust President Joe Biden into a Middle East crisis that risks expanding into a broader conflict and has left him fending off criticism from GOP presidential rivals that his administration’s policies led to this moment. Read story
October 8, 2023, 6:02am Health
Experts, industry groups and patient advocates are closely watching the next steps in the Biden administration’s fledgling program to negotiate Medicare prices for high-cost drugs after all the selected drugmakers signed on to participate. Read story
October 8, 2023, 6:00am Life
Wearing an “I Love Pandas” T-shirt and clutching a panda-covered diary, Kelsey Lambert bubbled with excitement as she glimpsed the real thing. She and her mother, Alison, had made a special trip from San Antonio just to watch the National Zoo’s furry rock stars casually munching bamboo and rolling around… Read story
October 6, 2023, 8:25pm Nation & World
House Republicans won’t have to decide whether to vote for former President Donald Trump for speaker, but they now know how he would vote if he could. Trump on Friday morning endorsed House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan to succeed Kevin McCarthy as speaker. Read story
