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Johnson says he won’t change rules for ousting speakers after warnings from GOP hard-liners
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday quashed rumors he was considering changes to make it more difficult to oust him from his leadership post, after Republican hard-liners warned it was [Read More…]
A TikTok ban is wrapped in Speaker Johnson’s foreign aid package: What happens next?
Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A ban on the popular social media app TikTok in the United States is now lumped in with Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans’ $95 billion foreign aid package, which would provide funding [Read More…]
DeSantis scales back book ban law amid spike in Florida book objections
Diyosa Carter/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — As Florida schools face a growing number of book ban attempts, Gov. Ron DeSantis is scaling back policies that made it easier for people to challenge materials in schools. [Read More…]
Mayorkas faces icy Senate Republicans day after impeachment case dismissed
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas faced an icy reception from Senate Republicans on Thursday, one day after the swift dismissal of the GOP impeachment case brought against him over his [Read More…]
Mayorkas faces icy Senate Republicans day after impeachment case dismissed
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas faced an icy reception from Senate Republicans on Thursday, one day after the swift dismissal of the GOP impeachment case brought against him over his [Read More…]
Ignoring Trump, Arizona Republicans don’t want to move too fast to repeal 1864 abortion ban
Arizona state capitol building. Via KingWu/Getty Images (PHOENIX) — Arizona’s Republican lawmakers made clear on Wednesday, despite the controversy engulfing their state with the revival of a strict, Civil War-era abortion ban — roiling the [Read More…]
Biden, in counter to RFK Jr., to get endorsement of other Kennedy family members
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is wrapping up a three-day Pennsylvania campaign swing in Philadelphia on Thursday with an endorsement by 15 members of the politically famous Kennedy [Read More…]
Supreme Court to decide if ban on homeless encampments is ‘cruel and unusual’
ABC News (GRANTS PASS, Ore.) — Just past the outfield fence of the local little league ballpark, homeless residents of this sleepy Oregon town erect tents to spend the night protected from cold and rain. [Read More…]
Sarah Sanders’ office potentially violated state law in $19K lectern controversy, audit finds
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, governor of Arkansas, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, May 2, 2023. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — The little-seen, $19,000 lectern at the center of [Read More…]
Johnson hawks $95 billion Israel, Ukraine aid package amid threats to speakership
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Speaker Mike Johnson and other House Republican leaders released a $95 billion foreign aid package Wednesday that provides funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan – as [Read More…]
Biden promises union workers to keep US Steel ‘American-owned, American-operated’
Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (PITTSBURGH) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday continued his 2024 campaign swing through Pennsylvania, speaking to the United Steelworkers union as he proposed tripling tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum [Read More…]
Arizona Republicans block another Democratic effort to repeal 1864 abortion ban
Getty Images – STOCK (PHOENIX) — Arizona Republicans on Wednesday again blocked a Democratic-led effort to repeal a controversial 19th-century ban on almost all abortions in the state, which the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled [Read More…]
Senate kills Mayorkas impeachment trial, votes both articles ‘unconstitutional’
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Wednesday dismissed both impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, deeming them “unconstitutional.” The trial against Mayorkas, long a target of Republican criticism over his handling [Read More…]
Trump, campaigning after court, comments on jurors in historic trial and seeks to spotlight crime
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Though he remains confined to a court room on most weekdays for his New York hush money trial, which began on Monday, former President Donald Trump is adapting his schedule [Read More…]
Democrats will try to dismiss Mayorkas impeachment articles as GOP demands full trial
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on Wednesday Democrats will ultimately seek to dismiss the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “Today, the trial [Read More…]
Congressional committee grills Columbia University president on campus antisemitism
Getty Images – STOCK (NEW YORK) — Columbia University President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik testified Wednesday before a congressional committee investigating antisemitism on the New York City campus after two of her counterparts at other elite [Read More…]
Nikki Haley’s next move is going to a think tank after becoming major Trump critic
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Nikki Haley has been tapped to be a chair at the Hudson Institute conservative think tank, according to a statement from the group Monday morning, marking the first major move [Read More…]
Will Arizona lawmakers repeal controversial 1864 abortion ban? What to know
Getty Images – STOCK (PHOENIX) — Arizona lawmakers are reconvening on Wednesday after a week’s recess and could soon take up legislation to repeal a controversial 19th-century ban on almost all abortions in the state, [Read More…]
Who are the key players in Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush money trial?
Justin Lane/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Jury selection began Monday in former President Donald Trump’s first criminal trial over allegations that he falsified business records to conceal criminal conduct. Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels are [Read More…]
Sen. Bob Menendez may blame wife in federal corruption trial, court filing shows
Sen. Bob Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, with his wife Nadine Arslanian, leaves US District Court, Southern District of New York, in New York City on Sept. 27, 2023, after their arraignment. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP [Read More…]