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US Senator James Risch will stall arms sales to Hungary as punishment for Budapest delaying Swedens accession to the NATO alliance, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Wednesday

The White House stepped up its lobbying for Sweden's pending membership in NATO on Wednesday as objections from Turkey and Hungary cast doubt on whether the Scandinavian country can join the military alliance before Mr. Biden and other NATO leaders meet in Lithuania in mid-July.

A day after he met with President Biden in Washington, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was back Wednesday in Brussels preparing for this week's critical meeting of defense ministers ahead of the upcoming alliance summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.

With smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketing the U.S. Capitol and an active wildfire season predicted for 2023, Sen. ...

New SBA Act simplifies disaster aid for rural small businesses, fostering resilience in the face of climate change.

State of the Union: For all the inside baseball, the debt ceiling was a win for Democrats for one simple reason.

U.S. Small Business Administration administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman announced yesterday the full implementation of the Disaster Assistance for Rural Communities Act, authored by Sens. James Risch (R-ID) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). Rural communities often face more severe impacts from natural disasters due to limited access to resources and infrastructure, which limits a community's ability to recover and avert long-lasting economic hardship.

The last of four signatures by leading US Congressmen in foreign relations committees opened the way for the proposed sale of F-35 fighter

Τhe State Department approached the relevant foreign relations committees to sound them out before formally presenting a proposal to Congress

Much of the session was spent answering lawmakers’ questions about the Pentagon’s resistance to cooperating with the International Criminal Court.