(Al Jazeera Media Network) The next speaker of the United States House of Representatives will face a gruelling task: maintaining near unanimous support among a divided Republican caucus while reaching agreements with Democrats to fund the government.
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy found out the hard way that the two jobs can be at odds with one another. When he struck a deal with Democrats to temporarily fund the government on Saturday, he sparked a Republican backlash that culminated...
(BBC News) Ex-president Donald Trump has asked a federal court to dismiss the election interference case against him, arguing his role entitled him to "absolute immunity".
Trump's lawyers say his attempts to cast doubt on the 2020 election fell within his duties as president and are not subject to criminal prosecution.
The claims were "at the heart of his official responsibilities," they argue.
Separately, Trump has asked for a delay in his classified documents case.
Trump's attorneys have...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States has sent Ukraine more than one million rounds of seized Iranian ammunition, according to the U.S. military.
The U.S. Central Command on Wednesday said the ammunition was confiscated last year from a vessel it accused of shipping weapons from Iran to the Houthi rebel group in Yemen.
“The U.S. government transferred approximately 1.1 million 7.62mm rounds to the Ukrainian armed forces” on Monday, the military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a...
(BBC News) Nancy Pelosi and her long-time deputy Steny Hoyer have been ordered to leave their workspaces in the US Capitol by acting House Speaker Patrick McHenry.
Both were told locks on their office doors will be "re-keyed" on Wednesday.
The evictions come after Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the chamber's plum post on Tuesday and McHenry, a top loyalist, was appointed in the interim.
Pelosi, who is not currently in Washington, criticized the decision as "a...
(BBC News) Kevin McCarthy has been toppled in a right-wing revolt — the first time that a US House of Representatives Speaker has lost a no-confidence vote.
The final tally was 216-210 to remove the congressman as leader of the Republican majority in the lower chamber of Congress.
Hardliners in his party voted against him after he struck a deal with Senate Democrats to fund government agencies.
There is no clear successor to oversee the House Republican...
(BBC News) President Joe Biden has vowed continued U.S. support for Ukraine, after further military funding was excluded from a last-minute congressional budget deal.
The temporary measure, pushed through to avert a government shutdown, did not include $6 billion in military aid for Kyiv — a top White House priority.
Hardline Republicans oppose further military aid, with many openly opposing Biden's approach to the war.
But on Sunday, Biden said Ukraine could "count on" U.S. support.
"We cannot,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States has urged Belgrade to pull its forces back from the border with Kosovo after detecting what it called an “unprecedented” Serbian military build-up.
Serbia has deployed sophisticated tanks and artillery near the frontier with Kosovo after deadly clashes erupted at a monastery in northern Kosovo last weekend, the White House warned on Friday.
The violence – in which a Kosovar police officer and three Serb gunmen were killed – marked one...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) More than 50 people were killed and many injured in bomb attacks in two Pakistan provinces, officials have said.
In the southwestern province of Balochistan, a powerful bomb exploded on Friday near a mosque in Mastung city, where people were gathering to celebrate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad.
Video footage shared on social media showed a large number of people, including many children, standing near the mosque before the bomb blast ripped through the...
(BBC News) Las Vegas police have reportedly arrested a man in connection with the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur nearly three decades ago.
The hip-hop legend was shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. The identity of his killer has been a mystery.
On Friday morning, Las Vegas police arrested a man over his death, according to sources speaking to AP news agency.
Shakur was 25 years old when he died on September 13, 1996,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Nagorno-Karabakh authorities have ordered the dismantling of the region’s state institutions by the end of the year, saying that the separatist state will cease existing as of January 1, 2024.
The decision came in a decree signed by the region’s separatist President Samvel Shakhramanyan on Thursday as more than half of the 120,000 ethnic Armenians who used to live in the enclave fled into Armenia following a military operation by Azerbaijani...
