Senators voted and approved dozens of amendments before the final passage of a nearly $280 billion bill that would fund the departments of Agriculture, Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, the Food and Drug Administration, and military construction on Wednesday.
An intra-Republican struggle to choose a successor to ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has reached a conclusion that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) claims as an unalloyed victory.
Independent presidential candidate Cornel West threw his support behind a campus protest Wednesday against Israel's retaliatory military campaign in Gaza, which he called "genocidal."
The American Civil Liberties Union, one of the most vocal critics of Donald Trump during his four years in the Oval Office, is now siding with the former president's position that a gag order against him is "unconstitutionally overbroad."
The off-duty pilot accused of attempted murder for trying to cut off engines for an Alaska Airlines flight told investigators he took "magic mushrooms" and thought pulling the handles to cut off the flight's fuel would cause him to "wake up" from a dream.
A top Biden administration official was confronted in a congressional hearing by Republicans over the U.S. government funding a "disinformation" group starving conservative media of advertising dollars.
