Lawmakers averted a federal government shutdown just a few days ahead of their deadline, as busloads gathered in Washington in a show of support for Israel and to protest antisemitism, and a controversial congressman declined a re-election bid after a damning report
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced Nov. 9 he will not seek reelection to the Senate next year, which will leave the upper chamber without its last pro-life Democrat and increases the possibility that Republicans will pick up his West Virginia seat in
The recent tumultuous developments in the GOP’s quest to elect a speaker of the House of Representatives highlight the fractures within the party and underscore significant moral and ethical issues. To navigate the current situation, as Catholics, we find resonance in the
"If you look at where our conference is, there's still work to be done," Rep. Steve Scalise told reporters after withdrawing his name. "Our conference still has to come together and is not there. There are still some people that have their
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., was nominated by his fellow Republicans for speaker of the House Oct. 11, but questions remained whether Scalise can get enough votes from his party to become speaker in a vote before the whole House.
Scalise defeated
The ouster of House speaker Kevin McCarthy marked the first such instance in U.S. history and left House Republicans without a clear successor to lead the House Republican majority.
McCarthy was elected speaker in January by a narrow Republican majority after 15 rounds
More than a dozen Democratic senators, including Menendez's fellow New Jersey Democrat, Sen. Cory Booker, called on the Garden State's senior senator to resign from office following charges from federal prosecutors, alleging that Menendez and his wife, Nadine Menendez, accepted hundreds of
When former intelligence official David Grusch testified before Congress in July that the U.S. government had retrieved crashed UFOs and covertly attempted to reverse engineer their alien technology, some Catholics already were primed to debate the compatibility of extraterrestrial intelligence and church
The Biden administration has drawn criticism for its inclusion of abortion in a proposed rule for a bipartisan law guaranteeing protections for pregnant workers that had the support of Catholic, pro-life and Republican leaders.
The bipartisan Pregnant Workers Fairness Act was passed by
The U.S. Senate passed a national defense spending bill for fiscal year 2024 shortly before their August recess without language in the Republican-led House's version of the bill barring abortion or coverage for gender transitions. Lawmakers will have to reconcile the two