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Inflation is President Biden’s ‘top economic priority’: Pete Buttigieg
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s administration is working to fortify the economy amid steep inflation with efforts to shore up the supply chain and “invest in the capacity, both physical and human, of [Read More…]
GOP Rep. Tom Rice says impeaching Trump was ‘the conservative vote’
ABC News (COLUMBIA, S.C.) — South Carolina’s Tom Rice was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Now, as [Read More…]
David McCormick concedes Senate race to celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz
Jeff Swensen/Getty Images (HARRISBURG, Pa.) — Hedge fund manager David McCormick conceded the Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania to celebrity TV Dr. Mehmet Oz. McCormick announced the decision on Friday, cutting short a recount process of [Read More…]
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…]