Jeff Mordock is the White House reporter for The Washington Times. A native of Newtown, Pennsylvania, he previously worked for Gannett and has won awards from both the Delaware Press Association and the Maryland Delaware D.C. Press Association. He is a graduate of George Washington University and can be reached at jmordock@washingtontimes.com.
The sister of a U.S. Marine who has been detained in Russia since 2018 accused President Biden of ignoring her family after he called the wife of Brittney Griner, who is also jailed in Russia.
Suicide has quietly become an epidemic among the nation's police, ranking as the No. 1 cause of officer deaths this year. Frustrated police advocates and mental health experts warn that President Biden has not only ignored the crisis but also exacerbated it with anti-police rhetoric.
President Biden is urging voters to back candidates who will protect abortion access in the November midterm elections, as he met with Democratic governors on their response to the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
The White House is prodding Florida students and parents to file federal anti-discrimination lawsuits over the state's new law that bars schools from teaching sexual orientation and sexual identity before fourth grade.
President Biden announced he will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 17 individuals including ex-lawmaker and gun control activist Gabby Giffords, the late Sen. John McCain, Trump critic Khizr Khan, Olympic athlete Simone Biles and Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington.
Nearly 70 journalists have urged White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to drop the secretive pre-screening process the administration has been using to limit reporter access to large events with President Biden.
President Biden on Thursday said he would support changing the filibuster rules in the Senate to codify a woman's access to abortion into federal law passed by Congress.
President Biden on Thursday warned Americans that they could be paying high gas prices for a while longer, saying that energy costs will remain high until Russia is driven from Ukraine.
President Biden on Wednesday thanked Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for dropping his opposition to Finland and Sweden becoming members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, paving the way for a historic expansion of the military alliance.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Wednesday formally invited Finland and Sweden to join the military alliance -- a major blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has fiercely opposed NATO expansion.
President Biden, in a week of high-stakes diplomacy, scored largely symbolic wins during his meeting in Germany with the heads of the six other leading industrial nations as he fell short of achieving his ambitious goals.
President Biden and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Tuesday announced plans to bolster the U.S. military's presence in Europe as Russia's war in Ukraine grinds on.
The White House on Tuesday pushed back against a progressive proposal to use federal lands for abortion services, warning there could be "dangerous ramifications" from the idea.
Leaders of some of the world's largest economies ended their summit Tuesday with an agreement to explore ways to impose a price cap on Russian oil, falling short of the Biden administration's goal of concluding with a deal in place.
The White House said Monday it will resume a full operating schedule of White House tours after nearly two years of disruption because of the coronavirus pandemic.
President Biden strode into Europe a year ago declaring "America is back," but now he is making the rounds at a summit in Germany as a hobbled leader while Western allies openly take swipes at the U.S.
The U.S. will send medium- and long-range air missile defense systems to Ukraine in the next aid package, which could be announced as soon as this week, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday.
President Biden says he has been briefed on the two Americans believed to be missing in Ukraine and stressed that people should not travel to the war-ravaged country to fight Russian troops.
A spate of resignations by high-profile aides to President Biden has left the remaining White House staff frustrated as they toil with a crumbling domestic agenda, sky-high inflation, the war in Ukraine and dimming prospects for Democrats in the November elections.
President Biden on Thursday signed the first major overhaul of U.S. maritime laws in nearly 40 years, a measure he said will lower costs for consumers frustrated with sky-high inflation.