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FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans from Texas’ congressional delegation are urging their Senate counterparts to push for stricter border security measures, implying they don’t believe the Senate GOP’s recent proposal to stem illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border goes far enough.
The lawmakers sent a letter address... | US Federal Policies |
ATLANTA -- Georgia’s State Election Board won’t take over running elections in the state’s most populous county, ending an investigation that had sparked fears of partisan meddling.
The board voted unanimously on Tuesday to end its performance review of Fulton County nearly two years after it had begun.
Multiple board ... | US Local Elections |
Will of the voters? Ohio Republicans pledge to push back on abortion, marijuana
Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman said voters could see abortion issues on the ballot again in the future
A majority of Ohio voters on Tuesday chose to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution and legalize recreational marijuana.... | US Local Elections |
PHILADELPHIA -- A former Philadelphia police officer has been sentenced to 15 to 40 years in state prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting women and girls — often while in uniform and in the back of his police vehicle.
Patrick Heron, 54, entered the pleas Friday after reaching an agreement with prosecutors ... | US Police Misconduct |
For the past week, just about everybody in Washington politics has been asking the same question: will Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema vote for her party’s plan to fight climate change and lower health care costs?The Arizona lawmaker is known for her opposition to changing the tax code, as the bill - known was the In... | US Congress |
Rep. Jim Jordan said Monday he feels "really good" going into Tuesday's floor vote in the race to be the next speaker of the House.
"When I left Friday, I told our colleagues, 'Look, we'll visit over the weekend. We'll talk about any concerns and listen to concerns you may have,'" Jordan exclusively told CBS News. "I t... | US Congress |
, Republican of Louisiana, has won the nomination of his party to be the next House speaker, but must win an election on the House floor to win the office.
If all lawmakers are present and all vote, Scalise can only afford to lose four Republicans out of the 217 in the conference. Democrats are expected to vote against... | US Congress |
Trump made a pointed show of strength in his adopted home state, doing his best to embarrass the Florida governor whose 2024 presidential campaign has floundered.
“We’re going to win the Florida primary for the third straight time, and we’re going to win the state by a landslide next November,” Trump told the crowd in ... | US Federal Elections |
Hackers have been able to gain access to personal information from about 6.9 million users of genetic testing company 23andMe, using customers' old passwords.
In some cases this included family trees, birth years and geographic locations, the company said.
After weeks of speculation the firm has put a number on the bre... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Two North Carolina county election offices named to receive grants from a nonprofit tied to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will not accept any direct funding, opting instead to leverage the affiliation for networking and training.
The Center for Tech and Civic Life recently announced 10 county and municipal election ... | US Local Elections |
Firebrand Rep., the face of the , is now , as the lower chamber enters its third week without a permanent speaker.
House Republicans on Friday formally selected Jordan to be their nominee after their first nominee, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, withdrew his name from consideration. The House has been without a s... | US Congress |
The GOP needs to win only one of the ten House races that have not been called to get a majority – and it’s possible Lauren Boebert will deliver them that victory.A rightwing lawmaker known for her extreme rhetoric – she’s decried the constitutional separation of church and state and made Islamophobic remarks – Boebert... | US Federal Elections |
Jason Miller, one of Donald Trump’s longest-serving and closest political aides, is one again in the broiler.
The long and salacious saga of his extramarital affair with former Trump political aide A.J. Delgado took a sudden dark turn on Wednesday, when she sued her ex-boss in an explosive lawsuit that now describes hi... | US Political Corruption |
It’s election day in Georgia, and both Democratic senator Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker have brought out some of the biggest names in the state to campaign for them.Atlanta hip-hop institution Jermaine Dupri is in Warnock’s corner, as he makes clear in this video:Walker, meanwhile, has the s... | US Federal Elections |
An off-duty pilot is charged with 83 counts of attempted murder after he allegedly tried to pull the fire extinguisher handles on the engines of an Alaska Airlines flight, according to officials.
The plane was scheduled to fly from Everett, Washington, to San Francisco before it diverted late Sunday to Portland after a... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
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The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building, home of the FBI's headquarters, is seen on June 9, 2023, in Washington, D.C. The General Services Administration's inspector general is investigating the decision to build a new HQ in Maryland.
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The J. Edgar Hoover FBI... | US Federal Policies |
It was a pretty big deal on Tuesday night, at the State of the Union, when President Joe Biden got Republicans to promise they wouldn’t cut Medicare or Social Security.
It’s not clear how binding that promise is or whether it even means what it sounds like. Republicans have a long history of proposing “reforms” to Medi... | US Federal Policies |
Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman has missed nearly 83% of Senate roll call votes since checking himself into a hospital to receive treatment for clinical depression last month.
According to government watchdog GovTrack, Fetterman has missed 53 of the 64 Senate roll call votes held during February and March. ... | US Congress |
Twitter podcaster Tucker Carlson is pounding home the theory that Democrats and the D.C. establishment are plotting to kill Donald Trump, this time claiming that we’re “speeding toward assassination” because “permanent Washington” has decided they “just can’t have” Trump as president again.
Appearing on anti-woke comed... | US Political Corruption |
The Department of Justice is trying to bolster its case for keeping a federal gag order on Donald Trump in the run-up to his election fraud trial in Washington, and prosecutors just got an extra helping of evidence from New York.
Three judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals reconsidering that gag order this week a... | US Circuit and Appeals Courts |
WASHINGTON -- Before Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman checked himself in to the hospital for clinical depression in February, he walked the halls of the Senate stone-faced and dressed in formal suits. These days, he’s back to wearing the hoodies and gym shorts he was known for before he became a senator.
Male senators ... | US Congress |
House Republicans issued subpoenas Wednesday to members of President Joe Biden's family, taking their most aggressive step yet in an impeachment inquiry bitterly opposed by Democrats that is testing the reach of congressional oversight powers.
The long-awaited move by Rep. James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversig... | US Political Corruption |
For some of the 2.4 million New Yorkers hampered by federal student loan debt, the late-summer news seemed like a miracle: President Biden planned to forgive huge chunks of the money they owed.
On Aug. 24, Biden declared his administration would cancel as much as $10,000 in debt for Americans making up to $125,000 a ye... | US Federal Policies |
Trump mocks Pelosi family as he rallies conservative support in California
As he ran through attacks of various California Democrats, he notably left out Dianne Feinstein, who died this week.
Seeking to nail down the support of California Republicans in the GOP primary, former President Donald Trump on Friday mocked Re... | US Federal Elections |
Nations and political systems differ greatly but it is difficult not to see parallels between what is happening now in the US Republican party and the recent history of the UK Conservative party.There is a brutal tussle under way over the direction which should be taken by Anglophone conservatism, as embodied a generat... | US Congress |
George Santos is emblematic of Congress’s reality television era—where fame for its own sake, rather than legislative accomplishments, earns you endless feature roles in the daily news cycle. It would hardly be surprising if, after his career in the House of Representatives comes to an end (and, perhaps, after a stint ... | US Congress |
Interest on federal student loans will resume on 1 September, the US Department of Education has announced.
In a statement released to Politico, the department wrote: “Student loan interest will resume starting on September 1, 2023, and payments will be due starting in October. We will notify borrowers well before paym... | US Federal Policies |
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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., walks on Capitol Hill on Thursday. He says he will continue to wear a suit on the Senate floor in compliance with the newly codified dress code.
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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., walks on Capitol Hill on Thursday. He says he will continue to... | US Congress |
Boeing Says Its Services Division Was Hit By Cyberattack
Flight safety isn’t affected, Boeing said in an emailed statement Wednesday.
(Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. confirmed it is dealing with a “cyber incident” that targeted elements of the parts and distribution business run by its global services division.
Flight safety... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Arizona candidates will step onto a different debate platform in 2024 than in previous cycles. The state saw a breakdown in order during the midterm elections after the gubernatorial candidates raised objections to the format.
The Citizens Clean Elections Commission has revamped the debate process following a flurry of... | US Local Elections |
Washington — Americans over 60 are increasingly falling victim to crimes of fraud perpetrated online and over the phone at rates that add up to billions in losses each year, and federal investigators are warning that the scammers are becoming more sophisticated in the ploys they use to get their victims to hand over la... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
The US Supreme Court’s decision to strike down President Biden’s student debt relief would claw back more than $300 billion in costs associated with the program that were recognized last year, marking a major reduction in this year’s deficit — at least on paper.
The court ruled 6-3 on Friday that Biden’s unilateral dec... | SCOTUS |
A 33-year-old Peruvian man has been arrested for allegedly sending more than 150 fake bomb threats to U.S. schools, airports, synagogues, hospitals and a mall, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Eddie Manuel Nunez Santos "allegedly engaged in this reprehensible and socially destructive conduct in a twisted attempt t... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
The over three-year-long moratorium on federal student-loan repayment has long been hailed as a godsend for student loan borrowers. While announcing yet another extension of the moratorium in December 2021, President Biden praised it as "badly needed breathing room during the economic upheaval caused by the global COVI... | US Federal Policies |
The House GOP is expected to vote on a new speaker as early as Tuesday at noon but House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is far from a lock to win the seat despite a pressure campaign to win over holdout Republicans.
Jordan managed to flip several Republicans who vowed to vote against his nomination but he ... | US Congress |
Share Share Article on Facebook Share Article on Twitter Share Article via Email The son of a notable Alabama civil rights activist was indicted on charges related to voter fraud on Wednesday, undercutting claims by leftist organizations and corporate media that legitimate concerns about the issue are unfounded. Accord... | US Federal Elections |
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz were among several Republicans who bolted from a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Thursday to protest subpoenaing Dallas-based conservative dono... | SCOTUS |
On Sunday, a CBS-YouGov poll reported something stunning about the effect of Donald Trump's disinformation on his committed voters: They trust him more as a source of truth than they believe their families or religious leaders.
For the American majority living in the fact-based world, that polling merely reinforces som... | US Federal Elections |
A New York appellate court on Thursday reinstated the gag orders prohibiting Donald Trump and his lawyers from making public statements about the principal law clerk of the judge overseeing the former president's ongoing civil fraud trial, The Messenger reports. The partial gag orders bar all parties at the trial from ... | US Circuit and Appeals Courts |
Could the former House Speaker be the future House Speaker?
Watch to see an effort this week by some allies of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to draft him for the Speakership again.
Fox is told it’s likely a challenge for either House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) or Judiciary Committee Chairman... | US Congress |
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis responded this week to demands from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who called for the prosecutor to hand over documents and communications relating to her investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
Willis sent a let... | US Political Corruption |
Democrat senators on the Rules Committee advanced a resolution Tuesday to confirm more than 350 military promotions that have been held up for months due to Sen. Tommy Tuberville's, R-Ala., protest of the Pentagon's abortion policy. The resolution will now head to a full floor vote.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer... | US Congress |
The nationwide attack on Black voters
During the 2022 election, one trend was certain: Through ballot measures, voters across the country delivered on critical issues directly affecting our communities. Voters cast ballots in support of reproductive rights, addressing gun violence, the abolition of slavery, increased w... | Civil Rights Activism |
Instead of, say, commemorating American soldiers in his Veterans Day speech, the leading Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential race spent nearly two hours attacking his political foes as verminous beasts who pose more of a danger to the US than its foreign adversaries. “If you have a capable, competent, smart, ... | US Federal Elections |
After he left the White House, former President Donald Trump allegedly shared sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines with an Australian billionaire who is a member of his Mar-a-Lago club, according to a pair of reports published on Thursday.
Trump shared the information with Anthony Pratt during an April 2... | US Political Corruption |
As an ever-greater portion of the nation’s total wealth goes to the top, it’s hardly surprising that ever more of that wealth is corrupting US politics.
In the 2020 presidential election cycle, more than $14bn went to federal candidates, party committees, and Super Pacs – double the $7bn doled out in the 2016 cycle. To... | US Federal Elections |
In addition, US District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered the former New York mayor to pay an additional $104,000 to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, a mother and daughter he defamed, for additional legal fees they’ve incurred because of his failure to respond to parts of their lawsuit.
This is the latest difficulty fo... | US Political Corruption |
As Republicans attempt to once again elect a speaker of the House, Donald Trump is putting himself right in the middle of the process -- endorsing Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and suggesting he'd be open to taking the job himself on a temporary basis.
In reporting for my upcoming book, "Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and t... | US Congress |
Newly inaugurated Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs is off to a rocky start, following a giggling bout at her swearing-in, questions surrounding inauguration donations, and a walkout during her first speech to the state Legislature by lawmakers who are planning to sue her.
Hobbs was sworn in on Jan. 2 in a brief cere... | US Local Elections |
WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Hardline conservative Republican Jim Jordan was falling short in a third attempt to lead the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday, as his Republican opponents held fast against him in a vote to fill the vacant speaker's chair.
As voting got under way, at least six of his fellow Republi... | US Congress |
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is expected to make a forceful pitch at a Thursday special conference meeting on investigations among House Republicans, that opening an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is the next logical step, sources familiar tell CNN.
The development comes as the California Republican has b... | US Congress |
The Social Security Administration notified roughly 170,000 Americans in December about the status of their disability benefits applications. The average wait time for a decision was seven months, the longest it's been in 14 years, according to a recent report from USA Facts.
Jeff Nesbit, deputy communications commissi... | US Federal Policies |
10 questions answered on the debt limit
As Congress battles over how to keep the nation from defaulting on its debt ahead of a looming deadline, Americans are getting a primer on the country’s borrowing limit.
This week, the Treasury Department warned it could run out of “extraordinary measures” to stave off a federal ... | US Federal Policies |
The Founder and President of Restoration PAC discusses the need for the Republican Party to move into the 21st century, modernize its approach to voting, and ultimately decided on what kind of party it is going to be. Doug Truax comments on the last two elections, which saw Democrats out-hustling Republicans on early v... | US Federal Elections |
Anchorage Assembly leaders this week issued subpoenas to four people — including two former top officials in Mayor Dave Bronson’s administration — in a continuing investigation into the circumstances behind a challenge to the April city election.
Assembly leaders demanded that they appear at a meeting Friday to answer ... | US Local Elections |
Republicans rejected Rep. Jim Jordan for House speaker on Tuesday on the first ballot, as holdouts denied the hard-charging ally of Donald Trump the majority needed to seize the gavel.
More voting is expected as Jordan works to shore up support to replace the ousted Kevin McCarthy for the job and the leader of the GOP'... | US Congress |
Headlines blaring warnings about how a second Trump presidency could slip toward dictatorship on Monday prompted a stiff pushback from allies of the ex-president, who is topping GOP primary polls just weeks before the Iowa caucuses.
The Washington Post, The Atlantic and The New York Times each published stories referen... | US Federal Elections |
Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro pleaded guilty to a felony Friday just as jury selection was getting underway in his trial on charges accusing him of participating in efforts to overturn Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 election in Georgia.
Chesebro, who was charged alongside Trump and 17 others with violating the state's anti-... | US Political Corruption |
A county commissioner in far southeast Oklahoma who was identified by a local newspaper as one of several officialsdiscussing killing reporters and lynching Black people has resigned from office, Gov. Kevin Stitt's office confirmed Wednesday.
Stitt spokesperson Carly Atchison said the office received a handwritten resi... | US Political Corruption |
President Joe Biden has signed a bill to fund the U.S. government through mid-November and avoid a shutdown, less than an hour before money for federal agencies was set to run out.
Biden posted a picture of himself signing the bill on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, late Saturday night. In the... | US Federal Policies |
Republican efforts to impeach President Joe Biden suffered a blow after fresh evidence emerged showing his bid to remove Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in 2015 represented U.S. government policy.
Then-Vice President Biden met Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian president at the time, in December 2015, after whi... | US Political Corruption |
In a 4-1 Sunday evening vote, the North Carolina Board of Elections moved to recognize the group as a political party. It will be able to appear on the 2024 ballot, and voters in the state will be able to affiliate with No Labels — if it chooses to run a third-party candidate.
North Carolina is just the latest state in... | US Federal Elections |
Fetterman photographed at Walter Reed amid clinical depression recovery
A top aide to Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said that he is “well on his way to recovery” as he remains hospitalized to receive treatment for clinical depression and will return to work in the Senate “soon.”
Adam Jentleson, Fetterman’s chief of staff... | US Congress |
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday morning said that federal authorities are probing whether the shooting of three Palestinian students over the weekend in Vermont was a hate crime.
Garland shared the brief public remarks at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York City, where he met with other federal, state and... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
To hear Republicans tell it, Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as speaker of the House on Tuesday was all the fault of their Democratic colleagues. “I think today was a political decision by the Democrats,” McCarthy himself said, arguing that the party had hurt “the institution” in a number of ways in recent years. Mike Pence, w... | US Congress |
Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., previewed the next steps for the House impeachment inquiry into President Biden Wednesday, announcing plans to hold a hearing this month.
Comer spoke at the weekly House GOP leadership news conference Wednesday, telling reporters House investigators will seek additional ... | US Political Corruption |
Senate Democrats blocked a stand-alone Israel aid package led by Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., Tuesday after a lengthy debate on the chamber floor.
Marshall sought unanimous consent for the House's version of the package, which passed the lower chamber with bipartisan support Nov. 2 and would earmark $14.3 billion reall... | US Congress |
Lori Vallow Daybell’s only surviving son took the stand Tuesday at his mother’s trial over the murders of his younger siblings — where jurors heard a phone call where he accused her of lying to him and posing as his dead sister in text messages.
Colby Ryan delivered emotional testimony Tuesday morning in the case again... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
The suspect in thethat killed in Lewiston, Maine, has been found dead, multiple law enforcement sources confirmed to CBS News Friday.
The body of 40-year-old Robert Card was found by law enforcement near a recycling plant, sources said, but it was unclear exactly where. His cause of death was not immediately known. A n... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
- Political consequences for Democrats. A historic rise in delinquencies.
- Here's what experts predict will happen if the Supreme Court rules against Biden's student loan forgiveness plan and the relief never materializes.
It's possible that the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down the Biden administration's student lo... | SCOTUS |
Through the marvel that is modern air travel, a candidate for public office is no longer confined to living in the state they hope to serve in. This relatively new phenomenon appears to be a godsend for David McCormick, a Republican who reportedly now lives in a Connecticut mansion but is poised to run for US Senate in... | US Federal Elections |
Tensions were flaring on Capitol Hill Tuesday, with two separate incidents involving Republican lawmakers playing out as a government shutdown could be nearing.
In one, a Senate hearing got tense when Sen. Markwayne Mullin, an Oklahoma Republican, stood up in a move to fight Teamsters President Sean O’Brien.
“You’re a ... | US Congress |
In a Shyamalanian twist no one – by which I mean everyone – could have predicted, the CBO estimated Wednesday that House Republicans taking an ax to the IRS would both add to the deficit and decrease revenue.
House Republicans’ Israeli aid bill, which includes what some credulous reporters faithfully parroted as “offse... | US Federal Policies |
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Gretchen Harrington (left) disappeared on Aug. 15, 1975, as she was walking to summer bible camp in a Philadelphia suburb. Former pastor David Zandstra (right), 83, has been charged with her murder.
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Gretchen Harrington ... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Washington — Embattled Republican Rep. George Santos of New York is set to address the public Thursday as the House prepares to take up a third resolution to expel him from Congress, two weeks after the House Ethics Committee said it foundthat he violated federal law.
It's unclear what Santos will say during the press ... | US Congress |
A cyber-security researcher has exploited a glitch on the CIA's official Twitter account, to hijack a channel used for recruiting spies.
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) account on X, formerly known as Twitter, displays a link to a Telegram channel for informants.
But Kevin McSheehan was able to redirect potent... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
President Biden on his birthday Monday cracked numerous jokes about his age during the annual White House turkey pardon before confusing Taylor Swift and Beyonce when talking about the origin of the massive birds.
The now 81-year-old Biden, who told a crowd gathered in Washington that it is "difficult turning 60," spar... | US Federal Policies |
McCarthy said the investigation was the "logical next step" as the House GOP has delved further into the actions of the Biden family business dealings during his Tuesday announcement. However, the Biden campaign was not swayed by McCarthy's comments.
"As Donald Trump ramped up his demands for a baseless impeachment inq... | US Congress |
Kotaku reports: A newly unsealed FBI indictment accuses a former analyst at Goldman Sachs of insider trading, including allegedly using an Xbox to pass tips onto his close friends. The friend group earned over $400,000 in ill-gotten gains as a result, federal prosecutors claim. "There's no tracing [Xbox 360 chat]," the... | US Political Corruption |
Minneapolis ex-police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in the murder of George Floyd, has been stabbed at an Arizona prison, US media reports say.
A source told AP the 47-year-old was seriously injured by another inmate.
The New York Times, citing two people with knowledge of the situation, also reported that he was at... | US Police Misconduct |
Ramaswamy embraces populist playbook in 2024 bid
Vivek Ramaswamy is leaning into economic populist messaging as he looks to distinguish himself from the other Republican primary contenders in the presidential contest.
He’s talking about “revolution” and labels his opponents “super PAC puppets.” He applauds small-dollar... | US Federal Elections |
EXCLUSIVE: The White House is blasting House Republicans for setting an "unprecedented bar" in their new bill that gives $14.3 billion in aid to Israel.
House Republicans rolled out the 13-page bill Monday, which would completely offset the foreign aid by rescinding the $14.3 billion in funds from the Inflation Reducti... | US Federal Policies |
Court rejects Kari Lake’s appeal of loss in Arizona governor’s race
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona appeals court has rejected Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her defeat in the Arizona governor’s race to Democrat Katie Hobbs, denying her request to throw out election results in the state’s most populous county and hold t... | US Local Elections |
Near the middle of the rambling video, Trump told viewers, “Remember, Republicans eat their young. They really do, they eat their young. Terrible statement. But it’s true.”
While some on the web speculated the teleprompter probably said “eat their own,” the front-runner for Republican presidential candidacy seemed to b... | US Federal Elections |
Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., and one of his former campaign aides, Samuel Miele, appear to be discussing plea deals with federal prosecutors.
In a filing Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York and Santos jointly asked the court to delay a status conference hearing scheduled for Thursd... | US Political Corruption |
- The House of Representatives on Tuesday ousted the Republican Kevin McCarthy as speaker, the first time in history that the chamber has dethroned its leader in a no-confidence vote.
- The vote was triggered when Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., formally launched the process of trying to remove the California Republican McCar... | US Congress |
Banks on the payment app Zelle have begun refunding victims of imposter scams to address consumer protection concerns raised by US lawmakers and the federal consumer watchdog, in a major policy change.
The 2,100 financial firms on Zelle, a peer-to-peer network owned by seven banks including JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) and B... | US Federal Policies |
Wenstrup said in a video on Thursday that he will retire from Congress, citing a desire to spend more time with his family. He was elected to the House in 2012 and serves Ohio's 2nd Congressional District.
"I work in a place where a lot of people want to be somebody, but a surgeon mentor of mine once said, ‘You don’t h... | US Congress |
Washington — House Republicans will make public most of the security footage captured on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, following through on their pledge to give Americans access to the video, they announced Friday.
Speaker Mike Johnson said in a statement that 40,000 of the 44,000 hours of video from Capitol Hill taken... | US Congress |
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Then-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder delivers his State of the State address at the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich., on Jan. 23, 2018.
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Then-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder delivers his State of the State address at the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich., on Jan. 23, 2018.
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LANSING,... | US Political Corruption |
Gisele Barreto Fetterman pushes back on ‘power hungry wife’ description
Gisele Barreto Fetterman is speaking out against critics who’ve dubbed her a “power hungry wife,” saying she’s faced the “vast majority” of “harassment” after her husband, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), was hospitalized for treatment of clinical depr... | US Congress |
As the debt ceiling fight heats up on Capitol Hill, House Democrats are eyeing an end-around strategy to bypass Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — and the conservative hawks driving his agenda — to avoid a federal default later in the year.
Democratic leaders have already begun talks about tapping a procedural tool, k... | US Congress |
Willis, a Democrat, has become a central political figure tied to Trump after she launched an investigation into alleged election interference waged by the former president and his allies. Trump and 18 others were indicted last month by a grand jury, prompting some within the GOP to push for Willis' ouster and garner s... | US Political Corruption |
Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday invalidated President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, ruling that federal law does not allow the program to wipe out nearly half-a-trillion dollars in debt.
The 6-3 decision by the court's conservative majority derails a major campaign pledge from the president, denying r... | SCOTUS |
American media billed it as a “slugfest” and the “Vendetta in Alpharetta”. Ron DeSantis’s campaign hyped it with a “tale of the tape”. In the era of politics as entertainment, everyone had an interest in turning a debate between two state governors with presidential aspirations into something resembling fight night in ... | US Federal Elections |
- Former Vice President Mike Pence has suspended his presidential run.
- Trump called on Pence to endorse him and complained about "disloyal" people in politics.
- Trump previously defended January 6 rioters who chanted "hang Mike Pence."
Former President Donald Trump complained about "disloyal" people in politics, as ... | US Federal Elections |
In the heat of the Republican primary of 2016, then-White House hopeful Donald Trump called Iowa evangelical supporters of Senator Ted Cruz "so-called Christians" and began to believe there was a "conspiracy among powerful evangelicals," a new book says.
The Guardian published excerpts from Atlantic reporter Tim Albert... | US Federal Elections |
Could former President Donald Trump become the next Speaker of the House of Representatives?
The short answer is, yes, almost all experts agree that it’s technically possible. And a rising chorus of ring-wing voices are calling for exactly that.
There’s no rule specifying that the Speaker—a position so important it’s t... | US Congress |
US hits debt limit, Treasury saysThe US government has hit the legal limit on how much money it can borrow, and Congress must approve an increase to avoid a debt default in the coming months, Treasury secretary Janet Yellen said this morning.In a letter to congressional leaders, Yellen announced the Treasury would begi... | US Federal Policies |
Microsoft Vows To Revamp Security Products After Repeated Hacks
Microsoft Corp., battered for its role in several major hacks, said it’s revamping the way it provides cybersecurity protection, using artificial intelligence and other methods to speed the company’s response to vulnerabilities and better protect customers... | US Federal Policies |
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