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Biden addresses public from Rose Garden after negative COVID tests, ending isolation
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Tuesday night and again Wednesday morning and will end “his strict isolation measures,” according to the physician to [Read More…]
Bronze statue of Amelia Earhart unveiled in the Capitol
SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) – Nancy Pelosi was the guest speaker at the unveiling of a new statue at Statuary Hall of Amelia Earhart, the famous aviator born in Atchison, Kansas in 1897, [Read More…]
Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson cooperating with DOJ’s Jan. 6 probe
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top adviser to then-President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, has recently cooperated with the Department of Justice investigation into the events of Jan. 6, [Read More…]
Blinken meets family of slain Al Jazeera journalist
Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the family of slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Tuesday amid renewed demands for justice. Blinken had previously spoken [Read More…]
Biden and Trump seem set for 2024 rematch — why do their bases say they want anyone else?
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI,JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Joe Biden and Donald Trump have been headed for another face-off since the day Trump lost to Biden in 2020 — but voters say they are upset [Read More…]
Buttigieg on GOP’s split view of same-sex marriage bill: ‘I don’t know why this would be hard’
Brian Stukes/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had sharp words for the Republicans opposing a bill codifying the right to same-sex marriages, urging them to support the legislation’s passage in the Senate after [Read More…]
Crimes over Jan. 6 go ‘all the way up to Donald Trump,’ Adam Kinzinger says
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump committed crimes related to last year’s Capitol riot and should ideally be charged by the Justice Department, House Jan. 6 committee member Adam Kinzinger contended on Sunday. [Read More…]
Some in GOP ‘very concerned about the damage’ Trump does if he launches 2024 bid before midterms: Hogan
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Some Republicans “are very concerned” about Donald Trump potentially launching a 2024 presidential bid before November’s midterm races, which could upend contests across the country, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Sunday. [Read More…]
Biden’s COVID-19 symptoms have ‘diminished considerably,’ his doctor says
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s doctor said Sunday that he “continue to improve significantly” after testing positive for COVID-19 last week. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s physician, wrote in a letter released by the [Read More…]
Biden’s COVID symptoms have ‘improved’; had elevated temperature, now normal: Doctor
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s “symptoms have improved” one day after testing positive for COVID-19, the physician to the president, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, said in a statement Friday. [Read More…]
Hawley takes flack for running from Capitol after encouraging Jan. 6 protesters
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican Sen. Josh Hawley was taking flack online and back home in Missouri on Friday after the Jan. 6 committee showed surveillance video of him running [Read More…]
Jan. 6 hearing raises new questions about Secret Service, Pence’s safety
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Jan. 6 committee’s latest hearing put the Secret Service even more under the spotlight after a recent revelation about the agency deleting text messages from around [Read More…]
Bannon trial live updates: After guilty verdict, Bannon rips Jan. 6 committee members
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Steve Bannon, who served as former President Donald Trump’s chief strategist before departing the White House in August 2017, is on trial for defying a subpoena from the House select [Read More…]
California governor signs gun bill modeled after Texas abortion law
Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new gun bill on Friday that is explicitly modeled after Texas’ unprecedented abortion law. The state is [Read More…]
Dramatic details you may have missed from Thursday’s Jan. 6 hearing
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Jan. 6 select committee used its second prime-time hearing Thursday to make the case that President Donald Trump not only did nothing to stop the [Read More…]
Trump ‘chose not to act’ as mob attacked, Jan. 6 committee says
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Jan. 6 committee’s second prime-time hearing focused on what it said was then-President Donald Trump’s “187 minutes” of inaction — from the time he left the [Read More…]
Bannon trial live updates: Defense rests its case after telling judge they were ‘stymied’
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Steve Bannon, who served as former President Donald Trump’s chief strategist before departing the White House in August 2017, is on trial for defying a subpoena from the House select [Read More…]
DHS inspector general opens criminal probe into deleted Secret Service texts
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general has turned the inquiry into the Secret Service deleted text messages into a criminal investigation, three sources familiar with the situation confirmed [Read More…]
President Biden tests positive for COVID-19
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time Thursday morning, his office said. Biden, 79, has “very mild symptoms” and is taking Paxlovid, [Read More…]
House votes to guarantee contraception access in federal law
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House on Thursday passed a The Right to Contraception Act that ensures access to contraception, such as birth control, to anyone who needs it — a move coming less [Read More…]