Author: Katherine Doyle, Washington Examiner

President Joe Biden is expanding legal pathways for migrants from attempting to reach the U.S. from Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua, while ramping up enforcement measures along the southern border. The announcement comes ahead of Biden’s visit to the Mexican border on Sunday for the first time in his presidency. It follows a surge in illegal…

Former President Donald Trump’s inability to sway conservative holdouts driving the stalemate over the election of a new House speaker is the latest sign of the former president’s wavering influence as Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy attempts to lock down the votes needed to secure the speaker’s gavel. Trump’s appeals to members of the conservative…

The White House would not say whether it intends to renominate the full slate of presidential selections who failed to win confirmation during the last Congress, igniting questions over whether the administration plans to abandon the path for a faction of candidates. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden renominated about two-thirds of the approximately 175 nominees…

Facing a divided Congress and the looming 2024 presidential race, President Joe Biden’s year ahead promises the potential for legislative gridlock. Under pressure from Democrats to move his priorities forward, Biden, who was elected promising to work across the aisle, might find he can get more done acting alone. The White House has said Biden…

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s meetings with top advisers to President Joe Biden “focused on pandemic prevention-related matters,” according to the White House. Biden’s press secretary said Bankman-Fried also discussed “general information” on the cryptocurrency industry and crypto exchanges while meeting with counselor to the president Steve Ricchetti and deputy chief of staff Bruce Reed, longtime…

The slightly larger Democratic Senate majority could boost Vice President Kamala Harris in the run-up to the 2024 elections after well-documented struggles during her first two years in office have caused skepticism over her readiness for a bigger role. Locked in an evenly divided Senate since President Joe Biden took office, Democrats have depended on…

Faced with a divided government for the first time since taking office, President Joe Biden has a choice: to move to the center or hew to the left. Democrats picked up an additional Senate seat and minimized their House losses in the midterm elections as Biden campaigned against “ultra-MAGA” Republicans. But they still lost control…

Vice President Kamala Harris’s “gamesmanship” against her staff has led to a long-standing pattern of dysfunction, prompting questions about her capabilities under pressure, a new book reports. A former aide said Harris engaged in “really unnecessary gamesmanship” with staff, behavior the person attributed to “deep, deep insecurity,” reports a forthcoming book by Chris Whipple obtained…

President Joe Biden said he looks forward to working with Israel‘s new government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but suggested the United States could “oppose” certain policies related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Calling the veteran leader “my friend for decades,” Biden warned in a statement Thursday that Washington “will continue to … oppose policies…

President Joe Biden’s promised reckoning for Saudi Arabia has faded as the spike in energy prices has done the same, leaving the White House to temper Democratic ire. When a coalition of oil-producing states led by Saudi Arabia slashed oil production quotas weeks before the midterm elections, defying Washington with a threat of higher gasoline…