KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan said Sunday it killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight border operations, in response to what it called repeated violations of its territory and airspace. Pakistan’s army gave far lower casualty figures, saying 23 troops were killed. Earlier in the week, Afghan authorities accused Pakistan of bombing the capital, Kabul, and […]

President Donald Trump’s family is cashing in on the presidential spotlight with less pushback than in the past. During Trump’s first administration, first daughter Ivanka, for example, was criticized for her brand endorsements, including a social media post about Goya beans. Ethics experts at the time complained that she, as a presidential adviser and federal […]

Conservatives on Capitol Hill are in store for painful calculations over more spending to extend expiring Obamacare subsidies, a contentious subject that GOP leaders begrudgingly concede they’ll ultimately need to address to pass long-term government funding. It’s a tough pill to swallow for fiscal hawks, who described it to the Washington Examiner as hypocritical of […]

Some GOP Capitol Hill staffers remain wary of House Speaker Mike Johnson‘s (R-LA) decision to keep the lower chamber in recess for a third week despite the government shutdown.  House Republican leadership has repeatedly pushed the notion that the “House did its job” in passing its short-term Republican-backed deal to fund the government through Nov. […]