The Texas Republican leveraged his obstruction of diplomatic nominees into a Senate vote that could complicate President Biden’s efforts to defend Ukraine. Mr. Cruz agreed not to obstruct the routine confirmation of 36 of Mr. Biden’s State Department and Treasury…
A key Democrat’s decision to pull support from the president’s sprawling climate and social agenda is rooted in the scope of the bill. President Biden is most likely faced with the difficult task of leaving some of his party’s priorities…
Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Cory Booker of New Jersey, both Democrats, said they were vaccinated and had received a booster shot. Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks to Senator Cory Booker at the U.S. Capitol in Washington in June. Two…
Images of Border Patrol agents corralling Black migrants prompted criticism of the Biden administration’s response to an influx of thousands in Del Rio, Texas. In his lawsuit, Mirard Joseph, center, accused the U.S. government of abuse, inhumane treatment and denial…
Russia has attacked Ukraine’s power grid in the past, and experts say Moscow might take similar steps as it masses troops along the border. The Ukrainian power grid was built in the days of the Soviet Union and is connected…
French President Emmanuel Macron gave an unusually long interview to French media over the weekend with an intriguing part about Russia sandwiched between the usual stuff about domestic politics. Speaking to TF1-LCI, Macron said that France’s outrage over the failed…
Not a single EU country has met the 17 December deadline for transposing into national law the whistleblower directive, meant to increase the protection of those who report breaches of EU law. In April 2018, the European Commission presented a…
The Senate majority leader still lacks the votes to alter the filibuster, but he said he will renew the effort to enact voting rights measures as early as the first week of January. Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York…
Europe needs to rearm its identity in the face of Islamism and cancel-culture, writes Assita Kanko. Assita Kanko is a Belgian MEP in the European Conservatives and Reformists group. Today the Muslim Brotherhood, spearhead of political Islam and the insidious…
Let’s start with a tricky question. Is the European Union’s Green New Deal a path toward the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050