With the United States just two weeks away from a possible default on its debt for the first time ever, President Joe Biden has cut short a trip to Asia to continue negotiations with congressional leaders in Washington over lifting the federal government’s debt ceiling.
His effort is the latest sign the progressive stalwart is toggling between his activist persona while pressing for a deal on what he thinks can pass a narrowly divided Senate.
As legislative sessions come to a close, state lawmakers are divided over whether children and teenagers should be able to have an abortion without telling their parents.
Monica Bertagnolli will oversee billions in research grants if she’s confirmed to head the National Institutes of Health.
Makers of products that take medicine online say slow-moving bureaucracy is crushing innovation.
Health groups say the move could devastate a nursing workforce that is plagued by staffing shortages.
The move sets up an override vote by the GOP supermajority legislature.
The sooner Putin and his coterie are forced to face failure, the better.
Companies using AI to generate fake people are committing an immoral act of vandalism, and should be held liable.
Readers share their views on the tragedy—and on individuals’ responsibility to one another.
Criticizing George Soros is not inherently anti-Semitic. But casting him as an avatar of evil is.
The Fed is paying particular attention to so-called core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs and are regarded as a better gauge of longer-term inflation trends.
POLITICO asked a panel of strategists and elected officials what under-the-radar issue they think could play an outsize role in 2024.
The slowdown reflects the impact of the Fed’s aggressive drive to tame inflation.
Palestinians across the globe are marking the 75th anniversary of the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic), when some 700,000 Palestinians fled from or were violently expelled from their homes upon Israel’s founding in 1948. The occasion comes as five days of fighting, that killed 33 Palestinians in Gaza and two people in Israel, was brought to a stop this weekend after the Israeli army and the militant group Islamic Jihad agreed to a Egyptian-brokered ceasefire.
The Secret Service is investigating whether the person intentionally went into the home or whether it was some kind of accident.
The former City Council member is now virtually guaranteed to be the first woman to lead the nation’s sixth largest city.
Voters in Philadelphia have chosen Cherelle Parker as their Democratic nominee for mayor.
Democrats will maintain their narrow Pennsylvania House majority after winning a special election in the Philadelphia suburbs.
The law prohibits Montana residents from electively having a dilation and evacuation abortion after about 15 weeks of pregnancy.
Most abortions will be restricted to the first 12 weeks of pregnancy starting July 1
We host a roundtable discussion on the human rights crisis unfolding at the U.S.-Mexico border and the impact of President Biden ending the Trump-era pandemic policy known as Title 42 last Thursday, after it had been used to expel nearly 3 million migrants without due process.
We look at a newly confirmed direct connection between a white supremacist leader and a staffer for one of Trump’s staunchest supporters in Congress. The digital director for right-wing Arizona Congressmember Paul Gosar has been revealed as a prominent follower of neo-Nazi online influencer Nick Fuentes.
As President Biden warned Saturday that white supremacy is the “most dangerous terrorist threat” facing the United States, and members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front marched Sunday on the National Mall, we look at how Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is under fire for expressing support for white nationalists in the U.S. military. Tuberville is a major backer of Donald Trump.
Makers of products that take medicine online say slow-moving bureaucracy is crushing innovation.
Health groups say the move could devastate a nursing workforce that is plagued by staffing shortages.
The move sets up an override vote by the GOP supermajority legislature.
The FDA said it “strongly believes” the new policy will not hurt the safety or availability of the nation’s blood supply.
