Politics

House Speaker Mike Johnson says he plans to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress, a show of support from Republicans amid growing Democratic criticism of Netanyahu’s leadership. “I would love to have him come in and address a joint session of Congress,” Johnson said Thursday morning on CNBC. Republicans have rallied around Netanyahu since Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called for new elections in Israel on the Senate floor last week.

The White House knew it had a political problem on its hands when a special counsel report questioned President Joe Biden’s memory last month, but Biden saw a much more personal affront as well. Robert Hur, who had been appointed to investigate whether Biden mishandled classified documents, wrote that the president couldn’t recall in an interview with prosecutors the date when his adult son, Beau, died of cancer. It was a shocking contention about a keystone event in Biden’s life, and it fed into questions about whether the 81-year-old president is fit to serve another term.

Tom Suozzi overcomes snowstorm and GOP’s Mazi Pilips in New York’s 3rd Congressional District special election

Former President Donald Trump released his first ad attacking GOP rival Nikki Haley Thursday, as she narrows his lead in early voting states.