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Obama returns to White House to help Biden push Affordable Care Act
Ian Forsyth/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — For the first time since leaving office, former President Barack Obama returned to the White House on Tuesday to join his former vice president — Joe Biden — in promoting [Read More…]
Why Republicans Romney, Murkowski and Collins, say they’ll vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson
Julia Nikhinson/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Three Republican senators — Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah — have taken the political risk of breaking from their party [Read More…]
Ivanka Trump to meet with House committee probing Jan. 6 attack
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter and former senior adviser to former President Donald Trump, will meet today with the House Jan. 6 committee investigating the Capitol attack, sources tell ABC [Read More…]
Obama to return to White House for health care event, lunch with Biden
Ian Forsyth/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — For the first time since leaving office, former President Barack Obama is scheduled to return to the White House on Tuesday to join his former vice president in promoting the [Read More…]
Treasury to propose new rule to fix Obamacare ‘family glitch’
KAREN BLEIER/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday will announce new steps his administration is taking to build on the Affordable Care Act, including a new executive order and a proposed [Read More…]
Senate forces Jackson nomination out of committee with bipartisan vote
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — By a bipartisan vote of 53-47, the Senate has forced the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson out of the Judiciary Committee — putting the judge on track for final confirmation [Read More…]
Biden calls Russia’s killing of Ukrainian civilians a war crime but not genocide
MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The killing of Ukrainian civilians committed by Russian forces in Ukraine is a war crime, President Joe Biden said Monday — repeating his accusation that Russian President Vladimir [Read More…]
Republicans Romney, Murkowski announce support for Jackson Supreme Court nomination
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s first nominee to the Supreme Court, was expected to pass a major milestone Monday on her way to expected Senate confirmation later this week. [Read More…]
Senate negotiators strike deal for $10 billion in COVID funding
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After weeks of pleas from the White House for Congress to approve more money toward COVID-19 programs that were at risk of being cut, Senators have put forward a new bill [Read More…]
Biden calls Russia’s killings of Ukrainian civilians a war crime but not genocide
MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The killings of Ukrainian civilians committed by Russian forces in Ukraine is a war crime, President Joe Biden said Monday — repeating his accusation that Russian President Vladimir [Read More…]
Senate Judiciary Committee to vote on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s first nominee to the Supreme Court, is expected to pass a major milestone Monday on her way to expected Senate confirmation later this [Read More…]
Secret Service paying over $30K per month for Malibu mansion to protect Hunter Biden
Handout/DNCC via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Hunter Biden is apparently spending his father’s presidency living in luxury in Malibu — and so is his taxpayer-funded security detail. The Secret Service detail protecting the president’s controversial [Read More…]
Sen. Roy Blunt says Ketanji Brown Jackson will be confirmed, but he won’t support her
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, a member of Republican leadership, said he will not vote to support President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, for her historic confirmation to the [Read More…]
Russian invasion of Ukraine ‘far from over,’ White House chief of staff says
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain is warning that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is “far from over,” despite the claim by Moscow that they are retreating from Kyiv and surrounding [Read More…]
Some Republicans continue to push for ‘decertification’ of 2020 election
Megan Varner/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — While many mainstream Republicans look toward making waves in the midterm elections, some are still clinging to the past. After GOP Rep. Mo Brooks’ recently confessed that former President Donald Trump [Read More…]
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announces campaign for Congress
Michael Schwartz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former GOP vice president candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will run for Alaska’s at-large Congress seat vacated by the late Rep. Don Young, she announced on her Facebook page [Read More…]
Republicans frustrated with GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn over unsubstantiated sex, drug claims
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republicans on Capitol Hill appeared frustrated with the weeklong controversy sparked by Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who made unsubstantiated claims in a recent interview that some of his colleagues invited him to [Read More…]
Buttigieg unveils stricter fuel economy standards for U.S. vehicles
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — New cars in the U.S. will need to meet stricter fuel economy standards, the Biden administration announced Friday. The rule will require passenger cars, trucks and vans produced for the model [Read More…]
California panel vote to limit reparations makes eligibility difficult to prove, narrows slavery’s impact, experts say
ilbusca/Getty Images (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — A California task force’s decision to limit reparations for slavery to people who can trace their lineage to free and enslaved Black people living in the U.S. during the 19th century [Read More…]
Biden administration says it will lift Title 42 restrictions along the southern border
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it is officially ending Title 42, the controversial policy implemented by the Trump administration restricting migrants from coming into the country under [Read More…]