Fresh off his 7 a.m. shoulder surgery, Rep. David Trone (D-MD) returned to the Capitol for the speakership vote, donning slippers and a sling to up the threshold for Republicans.
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is confident in his chances of becoming speaker of the House Friday night after the lower chamber voted to adjourn to allow several more hours of talks with the six remaining Republican holdouts.
The world’s biggest tech companies will now have to disclosure how much they pay staff thanks to a new California law requiring salaries to be listed in job postings.
Natural gas futures slumped to the lowest level in more than a year on Friday, marking a major turnaround since the massive run-up in prices that followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine and threatened to impose hardship on households in New England and across the United States.
President Joe Biden commemorated the second anniversary of Jan. 6 Friday with a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, where he decried the violence carried out by rioters who attacked the Capitol and "lies about the 2020 election" voiced by former President Donald Trump and his allies.
A federal appeals court has halted attempts for two states to get testimony from former White House press secretary Jen Psaki as part of a lawsuit against the Biden administration accusing it of suppressing free speech on social media platforms.
Newly released documents reveal that U.S. Central Command was aware of possible civilian casualties in the Aug. 29, 2021, botched drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan.
