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Jan. 6 panel questions Donald Trump Jr.’s fiance, GOP fundraiser Kimberly Guilfoyle
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack on Friday interviewed Kimberly Guilfoyle, the fiancé of Donald Trump Jr. and a GOP operative and fundraiser, behind closed doors. [Read More…]
Poll finds sharp partisan divisions on the impact of a Black woman justice
Grant Faint/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Leading into President Joe Biden’s first Supreme Court nomination, Americans are split along partisan lines on a range of attitudes relating to the high court — approval of its [Read More…]
Biden to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as first Black woman on Supreme Court
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/POOL (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, elevating an African American woman for the first time to [Read More…]
Biden to attend NATO summit from Situation Room as Putin invades Ukraine
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will attend an emergency NATO summit Friday morning from the White House Situation Room to coordinate next steps with Western allies [Read More…]
House Oversight Committee expands probe into Trump’s handling of White House records
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Oversight and Reform Committee on Friday expanded its investigation into former President Donald Trump’s White House records, requesting new information from the National Archives about the classified materials [Read More…]
Top Democrats and Republicans want stiffer sanctions, but GOP divided on Biden
Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Shortly after President Joe Biden on Thursday announced new sanctions on Russian banks and elites — but not on Russian President Vladimir Putin himself — a top Senate Democrat pointedly [Read More…]
Florida House passes controversial ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill
Ana Ceballos/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — The Parental Rights in Education bill, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by LGBTQ activists, has been passed by the Florida House of Representatives. [Read More…]
Biden announces new sanctions on Russian banks, elites but not yet on Putin himself
Oliver Contreras/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After weeks of warning of “severe” sanctions if Russia invaded Ukraine, President Joe Biden addressed the nation and the world from the White House Thursday in what’s unfolding [Read More…]
Biden vows consequences as Putin stages full-scale attack on Ukraine
Oliver Contreras/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After weeks of warning of “severe” sanctions if Russia invaded Ukraine, President Joe Biden was set to deliver remarks from the White House Thursday in what’s unfolding as [Read More…]
Attorney who aided Trump’s election efforts sues Jan. 6 committee over phone records
ftwitty/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A Washington, D.C., lobbyist and attorney who assisted with former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election filed suit this week against the House select committee investigating the Jan. [Read More…]
White House overhauling COVID strategy as nation moves out of pandemic crisis
JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House has begun a sweeping overhaul of its COVID strategy that will signal the nation is moving past crisis mode and into a more manageable phase [Read More…]
Colorado to become the first state to accept cryptocurrency as payment for taxes
ozgurdonmaz/Getty Images (DENVER) — Colorado will become the first state to accept cryptocurrency as payment for state taxes and fees, Governor Jared Polis announced Wednesday. Polis said the state, which was also the earliest to [Read More…]
2 prosecutors leading Manhattan DA’s Trump probe resign, leaving charges in doubt
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two prosecutors leading the criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump and his family real estate business have resigned, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said, casting doubt about the [Read More…]
Ivanka Trump in discussions with Jan. 6 committee for voluntary interview
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter of former President Donald Trump, is in active conversations with the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 about meeting for a voluntary interview, ABC News [Read More…]
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump urges Biden to nominate Jackson to Supreme Court
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/POOL (WASHINGTON) — Civil rights attorney Ben Crump publicly urged President Joe Biden to tap Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court on Wednesday, as the president closes [Read More…]
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s candid 2007 take on Justice Clarence Thomas: ‘I don’t understand you’
Kevin Lamarque-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — More than two decades before becoming a top contender to be President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, a young Ketanji Brown Jackson sat across from Justice Clarence Thomas, reportedly perplexed [Read More…]
‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill amendment that LGBTQ+ advocates say could out students withdrawn
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — A Florida bill that would limit classroom discussions on sexual orientation and gender identity and encourage parents to sue schools or teachers that engage in these topics continues to [Read More…]
Biden nears Supreme Court pick after interviews with short-list candidates
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is zeroing in on his first pick for the U.S. Supreme Court, completing interviews with candidates on his short list and moving toward a final decision this [Read More…]
Biden begins to sanction Moscow for ‘beginning of a Russian invasion’ of Ukraine
JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Saying the world is witnessing “the beginning of an invasion — of a Russian invasion — of Ukraine,” President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he would begin to impose [Read More…]
The reality of Texas’ new voting law sets in as some voters have trouble casting ballots
adamkaz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Twenty-eight days, three forms, and several calls — that’s what Pam Gaskin says it took for her to finally be able to cast her ballot in Texas. The 74-year-old has voted [Read More…]