McConnell Discharged From Hospital, Enters Rehab Facility

WASHINGTON — Nearly 60 years after an edict by the Federal Communications Commission inadvertently began the long, slow decline of AM radio, Congress suddenly appears to be besotted with a broadcast band many radio listeners left largely for dead decades ago. In just the past month... Read More

WASHINGTON — With apologies to the late Joan Didion, the center did hold Wednesday night and the result was a rousing bipartisan endorsement of the debt ceiling deal that will prevent the first-ever default by the government in U.S. history — presuming the Senate can pass... Read More

NEW YORK (AP) — A man who briefly worked as an aide to U.S. Rep. George Santos says he got his job after sending a series of payments to one of the Republican’s top deputies. Derek Myers, 31, told staff of the House’s ethics subcommittee during an interview... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached a deal in principle Saturday night to raise the nation’s debt limit for two years while cutting and capping some federal spending — appearing, for now, to have averted the first default in U.S. history.... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday began a Rose Garden ceremony to nominate the next chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as a platform to once again urge House Republicans to pass a “clean” debt limit increase while talks on budget matters continue. “Speaker... Read More

WASHINGTON — The chairman and two Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee are pressing FBI Director Christopher Wray for information on the agency’s ongoing investigation into pipe bombs placed in a Capitol Hill neighborhood the night before the Jan. 6 riot. House Judiciary Committee Chair... Read More