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DHS secretary to face grilling on Title 42, border security in front of Congress
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday is expected to get grilled by lawmakers about how the Biden administration is handling the growing problem of immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. [Read More…]
Some GOP lawmakers criticize McCarthy over Jan. 6 recordings
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy was mum Tuesday night when questioned by reporters about being heard on tape saying some Republicans incited violence around [Read More…]
Biden pardons three people, reduces sentences for 75 non-violent drug offenders
Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he pardoned three people who have “demonstrated a commitment to rehabilitation,” including 86-year-old Abraham W. Bolden Sr., who was the [Read More…]
Military families testify about dangerous housing conditions
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Capt. Samuel Choe, a former resident of Fort Gordon in Georgia, flew 17 hours from his deployment in South Korea to testify before a Senate subcommittee Tuesday about the mold [Read More…]
Nature of battle changing, US helping Ukraine adapt: Blinken
Al Drago/Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Speaking publicly about his visit to Ukraine for the first time since returning home, Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday asserted “the Ukrainians have won the battle for Kyiv,” [Read More…]
Rep. Madison Cawthorn caught bringing loaded gun through airport security
Allison Joyce/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Madison Cawthorn, a Republican congressman from North Carolina, was caught trying to go through security with a loaded gun at Charlotte Douglas International Airport Tuesday morning, according to multiple sources. [Read More…]
Vice President Kamala Harris tests positive for COVID-19
MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for COVID-19 via rapid and PCR tests on Tuesday, according to her office. Harris, who received her second booster shot on April [Read More…]
Supreme Court hears ‘Remain in Mexico’ repeal case
Walter Bibikow/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday in a case that could have major implications for President Joe Biden’s approach to immigration enforcement at the border, with the [Read More…]
Looming Ohio primary promises early test of Trump’s endorsement power
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — In one week, Ohio voters head to the polls for the Republican Senate midterm primary election that is set to be the first major test of former President Donald [Read More…]
Marjorie Taylor Greene discussed martial law to keep Trump in power, text messages show
John Bazemore-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested in a text message sent three days before Joe Biden was sworn in as president that some of former President Donald Trump’s staunchest allies [Read More…]
ABC News Exclusive: Dr. Birx speaks to Trump disinfectant moment, says colleagues had resignation pact
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The coronavirus response coordinator for President Donald Trump’s COVID task force, Dr. Deborah Birx, told ABC News in an exclusive interview that she became “paralyzed” when Trump raised the possibility of [Read More…]
Inside Blinken and Austin’s risky, secret visit to Ukraine
Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In the quiet weekend morning hours Saturday, two of President Joe Biden’s top advisers boarded their flights — the start of a long journey shrouded in [Read More…]
New Tennessee bill would require drunk drivers to pay child support for killing a parent
Witthaya Prasongsin/iStock (NEW YORK) — A Tennessee bill that would require convicted drunk drivers to pay child support to minors is headed to the governor’s desk. Drivers convicted of vehicular homicide, intoxication or aggravated vehicular [Read More…]
Marjorie Taylor Greene testifies under oath about Jan. 6
JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday became the first member of Congress to publicly testify under oath about the events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack on the [Read More…]
Online event tackles ‘toxic polarization’ through conversation
William Whitehurst/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the midterm elections inch closer and political conversations heat up, one organization is hoping to bring people together despite their differences. America Talks, in partnership with Gannett and [Read More…]
Russia’s latest sanctions target US power players including Kamala Harris and Mark Zuckerberg
MIKHAIL TERESHCHENKO/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday indefinitely barred 29 more Americans from entering Russia, including Vice President Kamala Harris, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius and Meta CEO Mark [Read More…]
Army revises policies on pregnancy, parental leave for soldiers
DanielBendjy/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The United States Army has announced new policies to expand soldiers’ and their family’s health. The 12-part directive expands previous policies such as allowing paid medical leave for pregnancies and pregnancy [Read More…]
Marjorie Taylor Greene to testify under oath about Jan. 6
JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday will become the first member of Congress to publicly testify under oath about the events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack on [Read More…]
Michigan GOP convention tests Trump’s endorsement power in key battleground state
Scott Olson/Getty Images (GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) — Thousands of Michigan GOP leaders are gathering in Grand Rapids on Saturday to decide which candidates will make it onto November’s ballot in what will be a major [Read More…]
Biden to sign executive order protecting old-growth forests on federal lands
Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Friday calling to protect old-growth forests on federal lands, strengthen reforestation initiatives and global partnerships to end deforestation, and take more steps [Read More…]