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Biden gets second booster after outlining dire need for COVID funding
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden received his second booster shot before television cameras on Wednesday following remarks at the White House about the state of the country’s COVID response. Biden’s speech promoted [Read More…]
Biden to get second booster after outlining dire need for COVID funding
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will receive his second booster shot following his scheduled remarks Wednesday about the state of the country’s COVID response, according to the White House. Biden is expected [Read More…]
GOP’s Susan Collins to vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Susan Collins of Maine plans to support the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court, the nominee’s [Read More…]
US bracing for influx of migrants at southern border if Title 42 revoked: DHS
Sergio Flores/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security is bracing for as many as 18,000 migrants per day at the southern border if Title 42 is revoked, according to senior DHS [Read More…]
Democrats, families push Senate to approve legislation to help soldiers sickened by burn pits
Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Politicians and family members are calling on Congress to step up and do more to help soldiers who were affected by potentially deadly diseases caused by toxic burn pits. The [Read More…]
Pentagon dubious of Russian ‘withdrawal’ north of Kyiv, expects troops will move to eastern Ukraine
Glowimages/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon is seeing “small numbers” of Russian troops repositioning to the north of Kyiv but is not labeling it a withdrawal as Russia has characterized it. Instead, it believes the [Read More…]
Biden signs legislation named for Emmett Till making lynching a federal hate crime
MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden has signed the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act into law Tuesday, making lynching a hate crime under federal law. “It was pure terror, to enforce the [Read More…]
SCOTUS debates ‘survival’ of US military in dispute over reservists’ job protections
Phil Roeder/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration on Tuesday warned the U.S. Supreme Court that “survival of the nation is at stake” in a dispute with the state of Texas over a federal law [Read More…]
Protesting COVID mandates, ‘People’s Convoy’ heads back to California
Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The group known as “The People’s Convoy,” led by truckers announced it is leaving the Washington, D.C., area this week to make a cross-country trip back to [Read More…]
Rep. Don Young lies in state at US Capitol
JABIN BOTSFORD/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The late Rep. Don Young of Alaska, the longest-serving Republican in the history of the House of Representatives, was remembered by Capitol Hill colleagues on Tuesday as his [Read More…]
Biden to sign legislation named for Emmett Till making lynching a federal hate crime
MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will sign the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act into law Tuesday, making lynching a hate crime under federal law. Congress failed to pass anti-lynching legislation over [Read More…]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for Justice Clarence Thomas to resign
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign from the nation’s highest court as a growing number of Democrats demand he recuse himself from some [Read More…]
Jan. 6 committee recommends Navarro, Scavino be held in contempt of Congress
Stefani Reynolds/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack recommended on Monday that the full chamber hold senior Trump White House officials in contempt of Congress for [Read More…]
Senate Judiciary chair says Justice Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chairman Dick Durbin, is calling on Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases following reports that Thomas’ wife, Ginni [Read More…]
US Capitol resumes limited tours 2 years after pandemic began
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Capitol finally reopened its doors Monday after being closed for nearly two years due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. It will be a limited reopening that will involve [Read More…]
Jan. 6 panel expected to request interview with Ginni Thomas following revelations of texts
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is expected to ask the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, for her cooperation following [Read More…]
Ukrainian forces retake Trostyanets, town in northeast
Glowimages/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon has been providing daily updates on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine’s efforts to resist. Here are highlights of what a senior U.S. defense official told reporters Friday [Read More…]
Biden makes ‘no apologies’ for saying Putin ‘cannot remain in power’
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden appeared to want to both ways when he fielded a barrage of questions Monday asking him to clarify his remarks that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain [Read More…]
Jared Kushner expected to appear before Jan. 6 committee this week
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Jared Kushner, former President Trump’s son-in-law who served as a senior West Wing aide during the Trump administration, is expected to appear voluntarily before the House select committee investigating the [Read More…]
Judge finds Trump ‘more likely than not’ committed felony obstruction in effort to overturn election
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge has found that former President Donald Trump “more likely than not” committed felony obstruction in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The judge said Trump’s [Read More…]