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Some Uvalde families endorse Beto O’Rourke for Texas governor in emotional ad campaign
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke rolled out an ad campaign Saturday featuring tearful endorsements from families of victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde. Many Uvalde [Read More…]
Oath Keepers trial: Defendants ‘concocted plan for armed rebellion’ on Jan. 6, prosecution says
Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Five members of the Oath Keepers facing charges of seditious conspiracy “concocted a plan for an armed rebellion to shatter a bedrock of American democracy,” a federal prosecutor said Monday in [Read More…]
Trump’s 1st secretary of state testifies he never asked Tom Barrack to ‘conduct any diplomacy’ for US
Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testified Monday during the illegal foreign lobbying trial of former Donald Trump ally Tom Barrack that he never asked Barrack to undertake any [Read More…]
7 Americans released from detention in Venezuela, Biden says
Mohamad syam/500px via Getty Images (VENEZUELA) — Seven Americans detained in Venezuela have been released, the White House announced Saturday. “Today, after years of being wrongfully detained in Venezuela, we are bringing home Jorge Toledo, [Read More…]
Greg Abbott, Beto O’Rourke clash in 1st and only planned gubernatorial debate
Brandon Bell/Staff via Getty Images (TEXAS) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and his Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke faced off in a debate on Friday less than six weeks before Election Day. The debate — the first [Read More…]
Biden says Hurricane Ian may rank ‘among the worst’ in US history
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With Hurricane Ian lashing the southeast U.S. after leaving a path of destruction in Florida, President Joe Biden provided a detailed update Friday on his administration’s response to the devastating [Read More…]
How Natural Disasters Can Change A Politician
Miami Herald/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In September 2017, Hurricane Irma swept across the southern tip of Florida, swamping what was then the state’s 26th Congressional District. The following July, that district’s Republican representative, Carlos Curbelo, [Read More…]
Government shutdown averted after House, Senate pass funding bill
Mint Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A bill to avert a federal government shutdown passed the House on Friday, just hours before the midnight deadline. The House voted 230-201 to pass the stopgap legislation, which will [Read More…]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls out stalled housing program aimed to help hurricane survivors
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With Hurricane Ian making landfall in Florida on Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D- Mass., and Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., pressed the Biden administration for details about a much-delayed [Read More…]
Biden, visiting FEMA in Ian’s aftermath, says search and rescue critical
OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday visited FEMA headquarters in Washington as search and rescue efforts were underway in Florida in the wake of Hurricane Ian. Upon his arrival, [Read More…]
Ginni Thomas appears in person for interview with Jan. 6 committee
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, appeared in person at the House Jan. 6 committee’s offices on Thursday morning for a closed-door interview. Cameras caught Thomas [Read More…]
Biden admin: 300K barrels of diesel arriving to help power Puerto Rico after Fiona
DHS Photo by Benjamin Applebaum (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration said Wednesday it had granted approval of a limited exemption in federal regulations on cabotage — or the transport of goods — in order to [Read More…]
Biden coordinates with DeSantis and Fla. officials, warns oil companies as Hurricane Ian hits
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As Hurricane Ian began barreling across Florida, President Joe Biden detailed his administration’s efforts to prepare for the storm and warned residents to heed warnings from officials. “It’s life-threatening,” Biden [Read More…]
Biden to propose new rule requiring airlines to disclose extra fees upfront
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Monday is expected to announce a new proposed rule that would allow fliers to see the total cost of an airline ticket, [Read More…]
Next Jan. 6 hearing may be ‘more sweeping,’ Schiff says, as committee weighs criminal referral
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ahead of what could be their final investigative hearing, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, members of the House Jan. 6 committee on Sunday offered a small preview of [Read More…]
Cheney says she’ll campaign against Lake, Mastriano because of their election denials
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — Outgoing Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., reiterated this weekend that she would campaign against election deniers, singling out Republican gubernatorial nominees in Arizona and Pennsylvania who’ve floated conspiracy theories about [Read More…]
Trump can’t ‘declassify documents by saying so,’ GOP Sen. Barrasso acknowledges when pressed
ABC News (NEW YORK) — After Donald Trump suggested last week that as president “you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified, even by thinking about it,” Republican Wyoming Senator John Barrasso disagreed — but [Read More…]
US sees signs Russia is ‘struggling,’ has warned of catastrophe if Putin uses nuclear weapon: Sullivan
Tal Axelrod, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The U.S. is seeing evidence that Russia is “struggling” in its invasion of Ukraine and has warned Moscow that there would be “catastrophic consequences” if it were to [Read More…]
Biden struggles, as does his party, as most Democrats look elsewhere for 2024: POLL
ABC News (NEW YORK) — With his party struggling in the midterms, his economic stewardship under fire and his overall job approval under 40%, a clear majority of Democrats in the latest ABC News/Washington Post [Read More…]
New nuclear threats raise risk from a ‘cornered Putin’: Experts
ILYA PITALEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Even before Russian troops invaded Ukraine, U.S. officials warned global peace would be endangered if Russian President Vladimir Putin were allowed to brazenly seize another sovereign country. At [Read More…]