Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Washington D.C.

Biden asks Congress for $33 billion in new Ukraine aid, power to seize Russian oligarchs’ assets

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden asked Congress on Thursday for another $33 billion to support Ukraine in its defense from Russia’s invasion and for the authority to make it easier to seize and sell the assets of Russian oligarchs, vowing anew that the U.S. was committed to ensuring Ukraine’s victory…

Los Angeles Times

Biden asks US Congress for $33bn in additional aid to Ukraine

US president says new funds are necessary for Ukraine to continue fighting against ‘brutal’ Russian invasion.

Al Jazeera

Biden asking Congress for $33 billion in new Ukraine aid, power to seize Russian oligarchs’ assets

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will ask Congress on Thursday for another $33 billion to support Ukraine in its defense from Russia’s invasion and for the authority to make it easier to seize and sell the assets of Russian oligarchs.

Los Angeles Times

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Exclusive: DNC seeks to boost California election outreach ahead of anticipated ‘red wave’

WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee is giving California and at least five other states grants to organize voter outreach ahead of this year’s elections.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Police misconduct is costing Washington taxpayers millions. Is George Floyd's murder one of the reasons?

SEATTLE — Giovonn Joseph-McDade, Tommy Le and Brent Heath likely never met each other in life.

Tribune News Service

Trevor Reed back in US, one day after Russian prisoner swap

Trevor Reed is back in the United States one day after the Marine veteran was swapped for a Russian drug trafficker in a prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow

The Independent UK

COVID cases rise across bulk of the U.S.

COVID cases are on the rise in all but six states and Washington, D.C. as the Omicron subvariant continues to spread across the U.S.

Axios

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Commentary: Blame Washington, not Putin, for rising prices

How out of control is inflation? One measure says it all: Prices are now rising as fast in one month as they used to rise in a whole year when President Joe Biden took office.

Tribune News Service

US Calls on Libyan Leaders to Immediately End Oil Shutdown

The US called Wednesday on Libyan leaders to immediately end the continued closure of oil sites and ports, stressing that such practices cost the country additional millions and risk an environmental disaster. In an unusual tone, the US embassy in Tripoli issued a statement expressing Washington’s “deep concern” over “the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Jordan pushing to restore Jerusalem mosque status quo - sources

Jordan has intensified efforts to push Israel to respect the historic status quo of Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque and avoid violent confrontations that could threaten a wider conflict, Jordanian officials and Western diplomats said on Thursday.

Reuters

Pablo Lopez breaks Dontrelle Willis’ Marlins record with 0.39 ERA through four starts

WASHINGTON — The 2022 MLB season is nearly three weeks old and no starting pitcher has been better than Pablo Lopez.

Miami Herald

Biden will ask Congress for money to combat global hunger

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s next supplemental spending request for Ukraine will include money to deal with a spiraling global food crisis, the United States’ No. 1 diplomat said in testimony before a Senate panel Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

Trump’s blessing bolsters Mccarthy with GOP after leaked audio

WASHINGTON — Most House Republicans rallied around Kevin McCarthy during their first meeting since recordings surfaced of the GOP leader considering telling former President Donald Trump to resign after the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, but the support wasn’t unanimous even after Trump’s blessing.

Tribune News Service

Judge halts winding down of Title 42 border expulsion policy

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security may not begin phasing out its use of pandemic-related asylum restrictions before their planned end next month, a federal judge ordered Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis calls for insider trading investigation of fellow Republican Madison Cawthorn

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis called on the House Ethics Committee to investigate fellow Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn on Wednesday, a day after the Washington Examiner broke a story saying Cawthorn could be implicated in insider trading.

Tribune News Service

Family of Paul Whelan has questions after he is left out of prisoner swap: 'Hope dims'

WASHINGTON — The family of Michigan's Paul Whelan expressed happiness Wednesday at Russia's release of another former Marine, Trevor Reed, while appearing frustrated that the U.S. left their brother and son out of the prisoner swap.

The Guardian - US

Presidents eulogize Madeleine Albright at funeral: ‘Freedom had no greater champion’

US leaders reflected on legacy of US secretary of state as family shared memories at Washington National Cathedral

Tribune News Service

Trump administration's $700 million loan to Kansas trucking company under fire in Congress

WASHINGTON — Federal officials Wednesday were asked to investigate whether an Overland Park, Kansas, trucking company broke federal law when securing a $700 million loan through a federal pandemic aid program — a sum that accounted for 95% of the money allocated to the program.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Los Angeles Times

Kamala Harris went to California to recharge. She returned to Washington with the coronavirus

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris can't seem to catch a break. Every unsettling laugh or awkward monologue becomes a viral video. A buzzy book out next week, "This Will Not Pass," portrays her role in the Biden administration as slight, despite promises she would be an influential vice president.

The Independent UK

Voices: Why has Elon Musk — the purported champion of free speech — blocked me on Twitter?

It’s not only journalists. Musk has also blocked Public Citizen, a Washington DC-based nonprofit watchdog group that says it has been ‘standing up to corporate power and holding government accountable for 50 years’

The Hindu

(From the Archives, April 28) Nixon’s decision on Vietnam

Washington, April 27: President Nixon last night said that the Vietnamisation programme has proved i

Al Jazeera

US calls for weapons as Russia grinds Ukraine down

Ukraine’s army is holding out against a better equipped Russian invader but Washington warns time is not on its side.

Tribune News Service

Whelan family has questions after Russia releases Reed

WASHINGTON — The family of Michigan's Paul Whelan expressed happiness Wednesday at Russia's release of another former Marine, Trevor Reed, while appearing frustrated the U.S. government has allowed their brother and son to remain in custody there for more than three years.

Benzinga

Drug Decriminalization Proposal In Washington State Clears First Hurdle, Survives Court Challenge

A Washington State proposal to decriminalize drugs and expand treatment and recovery services faced and survived a court challenge, Marijuana Moment reported.

France 24

Live: Biden, Clintons lead tributes to Madeleine Albright at memorial service

President Joe Biden, former president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton will lead tributes on Wednesday to Madeleine Albright, the first woman to helm the US State Department, at a memorial service in Washington. Watch it live on FRANCE 24 at 5pm Paris time (GMT+2).

1 … 688 689 690 691

People

Marjorie Taylor Greene

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.