Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said Tuesday that he’s planning a hearing on this week’s collapse of two multi-billion dollar banks. Silicon Valley Bank, the sixteenth-largest bank in the U.S., was shut down by regulators following a rush of investors withdrawing funds, driven by concerns over the bank’s solvency.
Sen. Ted Cruz took to social media to ask if the Chinese government influenced a speech former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave Sunday at the South by Southwest conference, where she urged the audience not to “go after China.” The comment came as the Democratic lawmaker was urging global cooperation to stop climate change during a series on the “Future of Democracy.” “Here’s the thing, you can’t just go after China with a cudgel.
Former Rep. Pat Schroeder, who was a pioneer for women’s and family rights in Congress, died Monday night, her former press secretary said. She was 82. She represented Colorado’s 1st Congressional district from 1973-1997. Andrea Camp, Schroeder’s former press secretary, said the former lawmaker suffered a stroke recently and died at a hospital in Celebration, Florida, where she has been living in recent years. “Pat Schroeder blazed the trail.
Democratic members of the House Homeland Security Committee are reportedly bailing from attending a field hearing in Texas about the border crisis. Committee chairman Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., told Fox News about Democratic members pulling out of the hearing, in which U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz was set to testify at.
The first chief of staff to Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is siding against her former boss following his decision to cut ties between his state and nationwide pharmacy chain Walgreens after it decided to stop distributing an abortion pill in a number of Republican-leaning states. Attorney Ann O’Leary, who also served as a senior policy advisor to Hillary Clinton and is well-known in Washington, D.C.
The U.S. government may have made duplicate payments for projects at labs in Wuhan, China, through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), according to records reviewed by CBS News. “What I’ve found so far is evidence that points to double billing, potential theft of government funds.
Reports the Biden administration is considering reinstating migrant family detention at the southern border sparked outrage from immigration activists, but former Trump administration officials are skeptical about how useful such policy initiatives from the Biden administration would be if implemented. “It’s just 180 degrees from what their strategy has been.
Oregon lawmakers are aiming to make the state the second in the nation to mandate climate change lessons for K-12 public school students, further fueling U.S. culture wars in education. Dozens of Oregon high schoolers submitted support of the bill, saying they care about climate change deeply.
The Biden administration is reportedly poised to approve a massive northern Alaska oil drilling project that is forecast to create thousands of jobs and 600 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifespan, sending eco-warriors into a frenzy about the “existential threat” the project poses to the climate.
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday spoke to Iranian anti-regime activists in Washington, D.C., and warned that the Biden administration’s efforts to re-enter the embattled 2015 nuclear deal would pave a path “in gold” to a nuclear weapon.
Two of the United States’ top health agencies have sent a letter to the surgeon general of Florida, accusing him of misleading the public on COVID-19 vaccine side effects. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the joint letter to Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on Friday. DR.
EXCLUSIVE: Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson claims that President Biden and the Democratic Party establishment are “mocking” her and “trying to suppress [her] voice” as she runs for the White House a second straight time.
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., announced her oldest son is expecting a baby boy with his girlfriend. The 36-year-old lawmaker spoke of the news for the first time publicly during a Moms for America event on Tuesday, saying she and her husband Jayson are “so excited to welcome this new life into our family.” According to a post on Boebert’s Twitter, Tyler, the oldest of her four boys, turned 17 on March 21, 2022.
President Biden’s newly proposed budget for the 2024 fiscal year will lead to a “record” national debt, a watchdog has warned. The Biden administration submitted the new proposal on Thursday, which outlines the president’s economic, education, climate, and healthcare goals across the next decade.
Florida State Attorney Monique Worrell is hitting Gov. Ron DeSantis after his criticism over the shootings in the Pine Hills neighborhood in Orlando that left three dead and two injured in February. Keith Melvin Moses, 19, is accused of killing three people and injuring two others in a pair of shootings on March 22. Spectrum News 13 reporter Dylan Lyons, 24, Nathacha Augustin, 38, and T’yonna Major, 9, were fatally shot Wednesday.
President Joe Biden’s political priorities are on display with his new 2024 budget that mentions “fentanyl” twice and “queer” seven times. Biden unveiled his new budget proposal ahead of an expected battle with the House GOP, and it is clear which priorities are getting the most attention.
The United States and the United Kingdom are taking sweeping efforts to crack down on asylum claims by migrants who have entered their country illegally – as their leaders face political pressure over ongoing migrant crises. “If you enter Britain illegally, you will be detained and swiftly removed,” U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman said in the House of Commons on Tuesday.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is hospitalized in Washington, D.C., after he fell Wednesday night. McConnell was attending a private dinner at a hotel in the nation’s capital when he tripped, Spokesman David Popp confirmed to Fox News Digital. The 81-year-old politician was taken to an area hospital to be treated. The extent of his injuries, if any, were not immediately known.
An effort to effectively reinstate Arkansas’ blocked ban on gender-affirming care for minors by making it easier to sue doctors who provide such treatments was approved Wednesday by lawmakers. The bill approved by the House allows someone who received gender-affirming care as a minor to file a malpractice lawsuit against their doctor for up to 15 years after they turn 18.
A Chesapeake, Virginia city council member was indicted on Tuesday for alleged financial exploitation of two elderly relatives, one of whom had Alzheimer’s disease, according to reports. WAVY-TV in Norfolk reported that a grand jury indicted Amanda Newins, an attorney practicing in the Commonwealth, with a felony financial crime.
The world bought 928 billion face masks at a cost of $389 billion during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to recently compiled data. With a global population of 8 billion, that means about 116 masks were purchased for every person alive from 2020 to 2022. News of the massive investment comes amid new research indicating that face masks may have not been effective in combating COVID.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will put to a vote the nomination of former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to be ambassador to India after his nomination languished in the chamber for over 600 days while senators grappled with Garcetti’s possible knowledge about a sexual harassment scandal in his office. President Biden nominated Garcetti in July 2021.
A largely friendly race between the Republican candidates vying to oust vulnerable Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear took a turn this week as allies of former U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft took aim at state Attorney General Daniel Cameron, describing him as a “soft establishment teddy bear.” The group, Commonwealth PAC, launched the ad, titled “Teddy,” on Monday, just one day ahead of the first Republican primary debate of the race.
Massachusetts Auditor Diana DiZoglio announced Tuesday that her office has launched an audit of the state Legislature — the first such review in a century. The Democrat, who previously served as both a state representative and senator, had pledged to review the Democrat-controlled Legislature’s operations during her campaign for the auditor’s office last year.
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who made waves as a witness during the first impeachment proceedings of former President Donald Trump, is now being accused of trying to profit off the war in Ukraine by pitching lucrative defense contracts through his private company. In a statement to Fox News Digital, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.
Democratic Montana Senator John Tester dedicated part of his re-election campaign launch last week to railing against “multi-millionaires” who he said didn’t “understand what a hard day’s work looks like,” despite federal financial disclosures revealing he is actually a millionaire himself.
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ planned legislative proposal to tackle illegal immigration in Florida could be most transformative state-led plan ever, a Florida state senator told Fox News. The overhaul will increase penalties for human smuggling and falsifying documents and requires state employers to confirm their employees’ legal status. It also includes proposals on health care spending, voting and out-of-state IDs.
Democratic leaders are publicly rallying behind Joe Biden to be their guy for the 2024 presidential election — potentially setting up a rematch with Donald Trump — but it is reportedly a different story behind the scenes. According to a recent Politico article, Biden faces doubt from some “high-level Democrats” who may only support the president because they fear what a Biden-less ticket could look like.
President Biden on Sunday remarked that he was involved in the civil rights movement during a speech in Selma, Alabama – a claim that remains unproven. The president visited the historic city to commemorate the 58th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” march, a pivotal moment of the 1960s civil rights movement. “I was a student up north in the civil rights movement,” Biden said to the crowd.
The three House Democrats who have announced they are running for Senate in California are proponents of far-left actions to combat climate change and have endorsed the multi-trillion-dollar Green New Deal. The Democrats — Reps. Barbara Lee, Katie Porter and Adam Schiff — have supported aggressive policies to transition the U.S.