With salary advances and staff reshuffles, lawmakers and federal agencies are preparing for a lapse in government funding that is beginning to seem inevitable. Share full article 172 Speaker Kevin McCarthy sent members of Congress home Thursday afternoon after efforts…
French politicians have taken aim at EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell’s reaction to Azerbaijan’s military operations against the Armenian people of Nagorno-Karabakh, saying his remarks were inadequate amid fears that economic and energy interests are taking precedence. Three years…
Poland and Germany had their first hearing with the European Commission on Wednesday (20 September), following a complaint by Warsaw that Germany shipped 35,000 tonnes of illegal waste into the country. “I hope that we can get to a point…
In previously undisclosed appearances, the justice spoke to attendees at two annual meetings for conservative donors and strategists organized by the Koch network. Share full article Associate Justice Clarence Thomas has for years gained entry to exclusive parties and V.I.P.…
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met on Friday with African leaders in hopes of reversing a coup in Niger, as the U.S. tries to deliver on promises to deliver for the growing but troubled continent. Share full article Secretary…
House Republicans have suggested that President Biden used an email alias to abuse his office and cover it up, but an initial tranche of the messages reveals banal content and personal information. Share full article 22 The National Archives say…
Bulgarian authorities expelled on Thursday the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in Sofia, Archimandrite Vassian Zmeev, who was expelled from Skopje a week earlier because of allegations that he was a Russian spy. Together with Zmeev, two citizens of…
Democratic voters far from the border say they want leaders to do more to address the growing number of migrants in their cities, but they don’t agree on what. Share full article Migrants arriving in New York by buses from…
Belgium is aiming for a new migration pact to be ratified before its EU Council presidency stint ends, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said in a speech to the UN General Assembly Thursday. In his speech, De Croo (Open…
Young conservatives came together in Brussels to talk about how they see the future of Europe, in response to the Conference on the Future of Europe, the EU democracy experiment promoted by the institutions, where randomly selected citizens had a…