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President Joe Biden speaks after signing the foreign aid bill at the White House.

Biden signs foreign aid bill, says weapons to be sent to allies within hours

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 24, 2024 at 11:47am
House Rules ranking member Jim McGovern, D-Mass., left, and new Rules Chairman Michael C. Burgess, R-Texas, talk before a hearing in the Capitol on Monday.

Rule for emergency aid bill adopted with Democratic support

By David Lerman
Posted April 19, 2024 at 11:09am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives for an interview with CNN in the Will Rogers corridor in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Foreign aid supplemental unveiled in House; Biden supports

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 17, 2024 at 11:58am, Updated at 6:39pm
Unidentified men carry a model of Iran's first-ever hypersonic missile, Fattah, past a mosque during a celebration of Iran's attack on Israel. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

‘Unholy alliance’: Congress needs to act as global crises threaten West

By David Winston
Posted April 17, 2024 at 6:00am
Nebraska Republican Rep. Don Bacon, the Quality of Life Panel’s chairman, leaves a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Panel pitches NDAA plan to improve troops’ quality of life

By John M. Donnelly
Posted April 16, 2024 at 5:34pm
From left, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., participate in a news conference following a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Lifeline for foreign aid package, speaker’s job up to Democrats

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted April 16, 2024 at 12:29pm
President Joe Biden walks onstage to give remarks virtually to the National Action Network Convention on Friday.

Iranian retaliatory attack on Israel flips script as Biden had pressed for changes in Gaza

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 14, 2024 at 6:50pm, Updated April 15, 2024 at 5:30pm
President Joe Biden speaks with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Ferdinand Marcos Jr., president of the Phillipines, in the East Room of the White House on Thursday.

White House rattles its saber with warnings to Iran, China about attacking US allies

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 12, 2024 at 12:27pm
Members of the Siberian battalion of the Ukrainian military take part in a training exercise near Kyiv on April 10.

We must support Ukraine: Future generations will thank us

By Doug Jones
Posted April 12, 2024 at 6:00am
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addresses a joint meeting of Congress as Speaker Mike Johnson and Vice President Kamala Harris look on.

Kishida tells Congress Japan will help US carry the load abroad

By Rachel Oswald
Posted April 11, 2024 at 2:16pm