
The House has adjourned for the third day without electing a new speaker after Kevin McCarthy continued to suffer a string of defeats in multiple rounds of voting on Thursday. As the fight for the gavel drags on, it has now become the longest speaker contest in 164 years. Each ...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned on Thursday against underestimating Russia and what he called President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions amid the war in Ukraine. “They have shown a great willingness to tolerate losses and suffering,” Stoltenberg told a business conference in Norway. “We have no indication that President Putin has changed ...