Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar on Sunday said Major League Baseball’s decision to pull its all-star game from Atlanta in response to Georgia’s new restrictive voting law adds to a history of boycotts that have pushed for justice. “We know that boycotts have allowed for justice to be delivered in many spaces. The civil rights movement
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Hunter Biden says he is fully cooperating with the Justice Department’s investigation into his business dealings in China and predicted that he will be cleared of any wrong doing in the probe. “I can say this, is I’m cooperating, completely. And I’m absolutely certain, 100% certain, that at the end of the investigation, that I
Continue Reading Mississippi’s Republican governor said Sunday that he doesn’t support the potential use of so-called Covid-19 vaccine passports in his state, calling the credentials that could be key to a return to normalcy by the end of the year unnecessary. “I don’t support vaccine passports. I don’t think it’s necessary and I don’t think it’s a
Continue Reading President Joe Biden’s roughly $2 trillion jobs proposal that is focused on infrastructure and the climate crisis is a “serious proposal,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday, but more work must be done on the plan to ensure it addresses major issues concerning the nation’s “human infrastructure.” “I think many of us see a crisis in
Continue Reading The last time New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s name was on a primary ballot, in September 2018, more than 65% of Democratic voters backed him for a third term. In a defiant news conference the day after the vote, Cuomo brushed back suggestions that a progressive wave was sweeping the state. “Not even a ripple,”
Continue Reading The federal government has moved to stop any further risk of contamination at a Baltimore contract vaccine manufacturer where 15 million potential doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine were spoiled last month, telling rival drugmaker AstraZeneca it must move its production from the plant and find somewhere else to make its vaccine. The Emergent BioSolutions
Continue Reading The chairman of the union for US Capitol Police officers said the department is “struggling to meet existing mission requirements” and is calling on Congress to hire hundreds of new police officers to ensure the safety of the Capitol following the death of a Capitol Police officer in an attack on Friday. Capitol Police Union
Continue Reading Former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump have weighed in on Major League Baseball’s decision to move its All-Star Game out of Atlanta in response to Georgia’s new sweeping election law that imposes significant new obstacles to voting. Obama on Saturday congratulated the league “for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights for all
Continue Reading Siamak Namazi, an Iranian-American detained in Iran, marked 2,000 days — more than five years — in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison on Saturday and his family again urged the Biden administration to do everything it can to get him and his father home. Namazi was arrested and detained in October 2015 and a year later
Continue Reading Virginia and New Jersey this week joined other Democratic-led states moving ahead with new laws that would expand voting access — a stark contrast to the Republican rush in statehouses across the country to make voting more difficult. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, which has tracked voting measures across the country, 843 bills
Continue Reading Lawmakers in all but three states have introduced bills aimed at restricting ballot access, according to a new tally by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. Their latest report finds 361 bills restricting voting have been introduced in 47 states as of March 24. The total, released Thursday morning, marks a 43%
Continue Reading The Biden administration has placed around 28,000 radio ads in Latin America as part of a stepped-up campaign to discourage people from journeying to the US. But amid a dramatic spike in migrants to the southern border, many of whom have been lured by false information and rumors from smugglers, it’s not clear the ads
Continue Reading When Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ditched her prepared remarks this week to voice a feeling of “impending doom” about rising Covid-19 cases, she flipped the script on weeks of hopeful news in the United States’ fight against the pandemic. While she and other Biden administration
Continue Reading Two Republican congresswomen are revoking their endorsements of Texas GOP congressional candidate Sery Kim after she said that she didn’t want potential Chinese immigrants in the United States. “As the first Korean American Republican women to serve in Congress, we want to empower and lift up fellow members of the (Asian American and Pacific Islander)
Continue Reading Immediately after Major League Baseball announced it was moving this year’s All-Star Game out of Georgia in response to the state’s new law that makes it harder to vote, state Republicans behind the law blamed some of its leading Democratic critics — including Stacey Abrams. After acting on former President Donald Trump’s big lie that
Continue Reading Lawmakers in New Jersey have sent the state’s Democratic governor two election bills that together would expand voting rights for residents in the state, as GOP-led states move to restrict access to the ballot box elsewhere. The first bill, given final passage from the state Senate on Thursday in a 28-8 vote, would allow residents
Continue Reading The White House says it no longer has custody of the documents House Democratic investigators sought to shed light on the inner workings of then President Donald Trump’s top aides in the lead up to, and on the day of, the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, according to a letter obtained by CNN.
Continue Reading President Joe Biden revoked a Trump executive order that authorized sanctions on International Criminal Court officials and lifted sanctions on two officials, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Friday. Blinken also said the State Department terminated another Trump-era policy to impose visa restrictions on certain ICC officials. “These decisions reflect our assessment
Continue Reading An estimated 25 million people will get a boost in their food stamp benefits starting this month, the Biden administration announced Thursday evening. These Americans, who are among the lowest-income food stamp recipients, were left out of a benefit increase last year because of how the Trump administration implemented an early federal coronavirus relief provision.
Continue Reading New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang said he was released from the hospital Friday after being treated for a kidney stone. “Have been discharged and will now proceed to drink lots of water for the rest of the day,” Yang said in a tweet Friday. Yang visited an emergency room earlier this morning after
Continue Reading The suspect in Friday’s attack on US Capitol Police officers outside the iconic Washington building has died, multiple sources told CNN, and two officers are injured, including one who was stabbed. A senior congressional aide and a US Capitol Police source told CNN that after the driver of the vehicle rammed his car into a
Continue Reading President Joe Biden’s son Hunter dodged several questions in a new interview about a controversial laptop that is tied to him and was seized by the FBI in 2019. Hunter Biden told CBS News in an interview clip released on Friday that he has “no idea whether or not” the laptop belongs to him, but
Continue Reading In a new memoir, Hunter Biden reveals his staggering slide into crack addiction and how he was buoyed by his father, President Joe Biden. “Beautiful Things” details the younger Biden’s lifelong struggles with drugs and alcohol; his first drink was aged 8, downing a glass of champagne at a family event. Biden’s book chronicles his
Continue Reading The US Capitol is on lockdown due to an external security threat. An announcement made over the PA system told everyone to stay indoors and away from windows.. CNN’s Lauren Fox reports seeing ambulances and a helicopter outside the building. One person was seen on a stretcher. DC Fire spokesman Vito Maggiolo says they are
Continue Reading The White House says it no longer has custody of the documents House Democratic investigators sought to shed light on the inner workings of then President Donald Trump’s top aides in the lead up to, and on the day of, the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, according to a letter obtained by CNN.
Continue Reading The members of the Iran nuclear deal and the United States will visit Vienna next week in the first effort to kickstart face-to-face negotiations to salvage the pact since the Biden administration came into office, a senior administration official said. Senior officials from the governments of Iran, France, the UK, Germany, Russia, China, the US
Continue Reading There are a lot of misleading claims being made about Georgia’s controversial elections law. And some of them are coming from the top. Both President Joe Biden, a Democrat who opposes the law, and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, the Republican who signed it last week, misleadingly described the text of the law in interviews this
Continue Reading New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang was hospitalized after being diagnosed with what appears to be a kidney stone, his campaign said. Yang visited an emergency room Friday morning after experiencing abdominal pain and remains at the hospital with his wife, Evelyn, his campaign said in a statement. His public events for Friday are
Continue Reading Georgia state Rep. Park Cannon on Thursday night recounted her arrest last week protesting Georgia’s controversial election overhaul bill as “terrifying” and said she was “afraid” in the moment, but that she felt it was important to try and witness the bill’s signing for transparency reasons. “I was afraid, just like many Americans are when
Continue Reading After infiltrating US government computer networks early last year as part of the SolarWinds data breach, Russian hackers then turned their attention to the very people whose job was to track them down. Over the course of a few months, as US officials remained unaware of the breach, hackers identified a handful of key cyber
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