The Department of Energy announced Tuesday that it has awarded contracts for its December purchase of 3 million barrels of crude oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the United States’s emergency supply of petroleum. This brings the total amount of oil purchased in 2023 to 13.8 million barrels — a drop in the bucket as the Biden administration attempts to refill the reserve after selling off more than 40% of its stockpile.
House Republicans are seeking information from President Joe Biden's counsel about whether the president knew in advance that his son Hunter Biden planned to defy a congressional subpoena this month.
North Dakota Republican leaders are urging a state lawmaker to resign after he allegedly made homophobic and derogatory comments toward a police officer during a DUI stop earlier this month.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Jordanian King Abdullah II reiterated their opposition to any attempt to displace Palestinians from or within the Gaza Strip.
The office of Washington, D.C.'s attorney general said Mayor Muriel Bowser cannot withhold additional allocations of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and must follow the law to boost benefits starting in January.
A large caravan of roughly 8,000 immigrants is heading across Mexico toward the United States's southern border on Wednesday, the same day that U.S. officials are expected to ask Mexico for help with the border crisis.
Immigrants from the southern border have entered Chicago through a new method of transportation over the last week, using transit trains to go to the city after buses dropped them off in a suburb.
There are only 19 days until the Iowa caucuses, the first nominating elections in the GOP primary season next year. But despite campaigning for a good portion of 2023, much remains the same among the Republican hopefuls vying to become their party's next standard-bearer.
