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DOJ declines to press contempt of Congress charges against Meadows and Scavino
Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice will not be prosecuting former Trump officials, chief of staff Mark Meadows and social media director Dan Scavino, for refusing to cooperate with the Jan. 6 committee, [Read More…]
Where do gun reform talks stand in Congress after Biden’s address?
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After a rare, prime-time address to the nation, President Joe Biden wouldn’t say on Friday if he planned to take the power of the presidency up to Capitol Hill next week, [Read More…]
One hundred days in, fate of Biden’s face-off with Putin over Ukraine still uncertain
Kremlin Press Office/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — One hundred days after Russia invaded Ukraine, the unexpectedly prolonged conflict has created a political headache for President Joe Biden with no end in sight. Historic [Read More…]
Peter Navarro indicted on contempt of Congress charges over Jan. 6 investigation
Kevin Dietsch/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro was indicted by a grand jury on contempt of Congress charges Friday for defying subpoenas from the House select committee investigating [Read More…]
Supreme Court abortion decision faces churn of draft opinions, dissents
Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — More than 110 days after Justice Samuel Alito authored a first draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court deliberations over a final ruling have entered a critical [Read More…]
Biden calls for ban on assault weapons: ‘This time we must actually do something’
STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As mass shootings continue to rock the nation, President Joe Biden delivered prime-time remarks on guns Thursday evening from the White House, imploring the nation to “For God’s [Read More…]
Where Supreme Court stands on Second Amendment
Bloomberg Creative Photos via Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — A spate of deadly gun attacks across the country has reignited the national debate on gun reform in the United States. Lawmakers are arguing over [Read More…]
Biden to deliver prime-time address on guns
STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will deliver prime-time remarks on Thursday evening “on the recent tragic mass shootings, and the need for Congress to act to pass commonsense laws to [Read More…]
Lawmakers continue talks but Biden ‘not confident’ Congress can pass gun reform
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With another mass shooting at a hospital complex in Tulsa on Wednesday, and as families in Uvalde are still holding funerals for loved ones massacred last week, lawmakers are under [Read More…]
Biden admits he didn’t foresee impact of Abbott’s shutdown on already growing baby formula shortage
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A White House event on Wednesday meant to highlight the action President Joe Biden is taking to deal with the nation’s baby formula shortage turned into a political problem when [Read More…]
Is ‘stare decisis’ dead? How the Supreme Court view of precedent is evolving
Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In thousands of rulings over its storied history, the U.S. Supreme Court has broken with stare decisis, the doctrine of respecting prior decisions, just 145 times in cases requiring [Read More…]
White House marks Pride Month amid wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation
Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The White House says it will celebrate Pride Month this June by signaling support for the LGBTQ community and their families amid a [Read More…]
‘Feckless’ ammunition laws under scrutiny following Uvalde, other mass shootings
Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When an 18-year-old shooter arrived last week at Robb Elementary School, in Uvalde, Texas — where he ultimately killed 21 people, including 19 children and two [Read More…]
Biden’s Coast Guard pick becomes first woman to lead a military branch
SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Adm. Linda Fagan became the first woman to lead a branch of the U.S. military when she was sworn in as commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard at [Read More…]
Biden tweets out video of BTS visit to Oval Office
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Making the most of the attention-getting White House visit by BTS, the South Korean supergroup, President Joe Biden has tweeted out a video of [Read More…]
Supreme Court blocks Texas law banning social media companies from ‘censoring’ users
Grant Faint/GettyImages (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a Texas law that would ban social media companies from removing users and the content they post because of a particular viewpoint expressed. The court [Read More…]
Doug Emhoff rebukes antisemitism, reflects on how his historic role ‘pushes’ him
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Second gentleman Doug Emhoff called attention to the “epidemic” of antisemitism and reflected on the history he has made while speaking Tuesday at [Read More…]
Biden praises prime minister of New Zealand who offers condolences on US mass shootings
Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Following a holiday weekend with at least 12 mass shootings across the country, President Joe Biden met with New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at the White House on Tuesday [Read More…]
Democrat-linked lawyer found not guilty on charge of lying to FBI in loss for Durham
Bob MacDonnell/Hartford Courant/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A Democrat-linked lawyer charged by Special Counsel John Durham with lying to the FBI in 2016 was found not guilty a federal jury in Washington [Read More…]
Lawmakers note ‘profile’ of mass shooters — mostly young men — as they weigh gun compromise
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Bipartisan talks about passing a new federal gun law continued through Memorial Day weekend despite members of Congress being out of session in a weeklong recess that also set a [Read More…]