The national average price for regular gas kept soaring on Wednesday, rising to a new yearly high of $4.229 per gallon, according to AAA. This is a greater-than-5-cent-per-gallon increase from Tuesday and more than 20 cents per gallon more expensive than just a week ago.  Wednesday’s new yearly high gas price came just a week […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is facing a potential floor revolt Wednesday that could derail three major GOP priorities and bring the House to a standstill. The House Rules Committee advanced a procedural measure on Tuesday to tee up floor consideration of three separate bills: an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance […]

The Supreme Court will hear a pair of cases in which the Trump administration is trying to end Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and Syria on Wednesday, marking the latest major test to the administration’s immigration agenda at the high court. The justices will hear oral arguments in the consolidated cases Mullin v. Doe and […]

East Asian countries have long balanced U.S. and Chinese influence, but the two countries’ intensifying rivalry is increasingly pushing them to choose a side. China’s explosive economic growth over the past few decades has threatened the United States’s long-standing role as the dominant power in East Asia, with China now outcompeting the U.S. in trade […]