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“Thanks to the swift action of several brave eventgoers, the perpetrator was subdued,” New York GOP Chair Nick Langworthy said in a statement. Zeldin, a U.S. Representative for Long Island, was at an event in Monroe County Thursday evening when a man climbed onstage and appeared to begin wrestling with…

The White House said the president, 79, has very mild symptoms and has begun taking Paxlovid. Mr. Biden is the oldest person in U.S. history to assume the presidency. He is fully vaccinated and has also received two booster shots, most recently in late March, precautions that generally reduce the severity of illness. Mr.…

The bill subsidizing domestic semiconductor production cleared its first procedural hurdle Tuesday in a 64-34 vote. The US Senate appears likely to pass legislation that would deliver billions of dollars of federal funding to the American semiconductor industry, a top priority in the Biden administration’s continuing efforts to out-compete China, after a…

Mrs. Pelosi’s office declined to comment on international travel, citing security protocols. A person familiar with the speaker’s plans said a trip to Taiwan had been discussed as a possibility as part of a broader Asia trip but wasn’t confirmed. The White House, via a National Security Council spokesperson, declined…

The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index, a survey designed to gauge market conditions, found builder sentiment dropped 12 points to 55. Any rating above 50 on the index is still considered positive, but sentiment has now fallen 24 points since March. That marked the largest single-month…

The price of crude oil rose on Monday after U.S. President Joe Biden came away from talks in the Middle East without an agreement on raising supply. Biden had hoped to secure a promise from Saudi Arabia to increase its output of oil, which could lead to easing of global…

Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, bought millions of dollars worth of stock in a computer chip company prior to an expected Senate vote on a subsidy bill to boost chip manufacturing.  Numerous companies are waiting for Congress to pass a $52 billion incentive package for chip production and…

Fed officials, who entered into their premeeting quiet period on Saturday, have been saying in recent interviews and public remarks that a larger hike was less likely. “You don’t want to overdo the rate increases. A 75-basis-point hike, folks, is huge,” Fed governor Christopher Waller told a conference in Victor, Idaho,…

Manchin told Majority Leader Chuck Schumer he’s only willing to support legislation to lower prescription drug prices and extend enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, the people said. That leaves Democrats in a position of accepting a much smaller package shorn of nearly all of their long-term ambitions from a year ago, or…

Homeland Security Department Inspector General Joseph Cuffari penned a letter to the House and Senate Homeland Security committees on Wednesday. A watchdog says the U.S. Secret Service deleted many of the text messages sent during a two-day period surrounding the January 6 attack. The inspector general, who oversees the agency, told…