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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said he will not attend remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a joint session of Congress, calling him a “war criminal.” “It is a very sad day for our country that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited – by leaders from both parties – to address a joint meeting of the United States …

Democrats facing the most competitive Senate elections heading into November were among the last to weigh in on the guilty verdict handed to former President Trump on Thursday as they fight off the potential for Republicans to flip their seats. Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and Bob Casey, D-Penn., didn’t respond to …

A moderate Republican senator finally broke her silence on former President Trump’s conviction on Friday, lamenting the focus “Trump’s legal drama” takes away from President Biden’s “indefensible record.” “These distractions have given the Biden campaign a free pass as the focus has shifted from Biden’s indefensible record and the damage his policies have done to Alaska and our nation’s economy, …

Republican senators signed a public letter to the White House on Friday, vowing to prevent the upper chamber from accomplishing anything — from appropriations to confirmations — in the wake of former President Trump’s guilty verdict. “As a Senate Republican conference, we are unwilling to aid and abet this White House in its project to tear this country apart,” read …

Congressional Democrats rejoiced Thursday following a New York jury’s guilty verdict against former President Trump on charges of falsifying business records. “In New York today, we saw that no one is above the law,” Biden campaign spokesperson Michael Tyler said in a post-verdict statement. “Donald Trump has always mistakenly believed he would never face consequences for breaking the law for …

House Speaker Mike Johnson is poised to extend a formal invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress amid the country’s war with terrorist group Hamas. The Louisiana Republican is expected to send the invite sometime in the next eight weeks. If not in that time frame, the Israeli prime minister could be invited …

FIRST ON FOX: A Texas Republican is taking aim at President Biden as an enemy of Americans’ gun rights with a resolution he’s introducing Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Roger Williams, chairman of the House Small Business Committee, says his resolution highlights support for the Second Amendment’s “guarantee that the right of the people to keep and …

FIRST ON FOX: The dates for closed-door interviews with top university presidents have been announced as House Republicans continue to probe antisemitism at educational institutions across the country. Two university leaders were provided notice by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Wednesday of upcoming transcribed interviews that will be closed to the press. Yale University President Dr. …

FIRST ON FOX: A top political adviser to a House Democrat, who is running for the Senate in a state that has become a hotbed for anti-Israel activism, attended a convention organized by one of the most notorious antisemites in the United States. Democratic Michigan Rep. Elissa Slotkin’s deputy political director, Terra Defoe, posted on Facebook in 2017 about her …

Radical progressive Democrats aren’t even trying to hide it anymore – they’re publicly admitting their intention to leverage open borders and the tens of millions of illegal aliens in the U.S. to fundamentally remake America by cementing one-party rule. For years, Democrats decried so-called “foreign interference” in American elections, all while engineering a foreign influence scheme of their own. In …