A battle is quietly brewing between Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and the Biden administration over the state’s deployment of razor wire at its border with neighboring New Mexico – its latest effort to curb illegal immigration on federal land without a permit. The International Boundary and Water Commission, which administers the boundary and…

New House Speaker Mike Johnson is already tying Washington in new partisan knots. The Republican majority’s rookie leader is painting deep red conservative lines on the blank page of his career in top-level politics, staking out a risky showdown with Democrats and even Senate Republicans over Israel funding that could…

The 14th Amendment disqualification trial against former President Donald Trump continued Tuesday in Colorado, where a group of voters are trying to keep him off the 2024 ballot based on the Constitution’s post-Civil War “insurrectionist ban.” An expert on right-wing extremism dissected Trump’s history of fomenting unrest and testified that Trump’s speech on January…

On October 20, House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. James Comer released a video raising questions about a 2018 personal check to Joe Biden from his brother James Biden and James’ wife Sara Biden, which had the words “loan repayment” written on the front. Comer said he would view the $200,000 check to…

(CNN) – The House Ethics Committee said Tuesday it is continuing its investigation into Republican Rep. George Santos of New York and that the panel “will announce its next course of action in this matter on or before November 17, 2023.” The committee said in a statement that it had…

In the latest indication that Republican senators are deeply divided over tying aid for Ukraine to Israel funding, Sen. Lindsey Graham said it would be “huge mistake” to separate the two after listening to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on…

U.S. Senate Democrat rejects progressive lawmaker’s “ethnic cleansing” remarks CNN’s Kasie Hunt speaks to U.S. Senator Chris Murphy about the need for military aid to Israel and Ukraine and progressive accusations against Israel. Read the full article here

Why Chris Christie wants Donald Trump on Colorado ballot in 2024 GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie tells CNN’s Poppy Harlow why he hopes Donald Trump will appear on Colorado’s 2024 presidential ballot where Trump faces a trial that seeks to disqualify him from running on the grounds of the 14th…

The Supreme Court dodged a major dispute two years ago on the intersection between government officials, social media users and the First Amendment when it dismissed a case concerning then-President Donald Trump’s habit of blocking individuals from Twitter who had expressed their displeasure with him. The justices ultimately opted out of that…

When polls close on November 7, Ohio will either become the latest state to enshrine abortion rights into its constitution or enter a period of uncertainty as the state Supreme Court considers allowing a six-week abortion ban to be enforced. For Joel Spring, a 33-year-old from West Chester, neither option…