474 charged with crimes related to theft of Covid relief funds
Federal investigators identified more than half a billion dollars in fraud and charged 474 people with crimes related to theft of money from US Covid…
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Trump tries to whitewash history by claiming his supporters were ‘hugging and kissing’ cops during Capitol riot
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday attempted to whitewash the history of the January 6 Capitol riot by pushing the false suggestion that his…
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Who will be the next Antonin Scalia? Conservatives fight over his legacy
Five years after the death of conservative hero Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court justices continue to joust over who among them is truly preserving…
Continue Reading Georgia Republicans speed sweeping elections bill restricting voting access into law
Republicans in Georgia sped a sweeping elections bill into law Thursday, making it the first presidential battleground to impose new voting…
Continue Reading Lawmakers spotlight border crisis during dueling trips to Texas
Two separate groups of lawmakers are traveling to Texas on Friday to spotlight the surge of unaccompanied children crossing the US-Mexico border in…
Continue Reading Schiff aide moves to White House as Biden rounds out press team
The White House is rounding out its press operation, adding a veteran Capitol Hill aide as President Joe Biden prepares to launch his next major…
Continue Reading Some Social Security recipients are still waiting for their stimulus checks
The Internal Revenue Service has sent roughly 127 million stimulus payments out in the past two weeks, but some of the lowest-income Social Security…
Continue Reading Biden says US faces battle to ‘prove democracy works’
President Joe Biden cast challenges to the US from China, Russia and global shifts in stark terms Thursday, describing “a battle between the…
Continue Reading Senate panel deadlocks on Gupta nomination, but she’s still on track for confirmation with Democratic support
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday deadlocked in a party-line vote on the nomination of Vanita Gupta to be associate attorney general, but…
Continue Reading DEA agent says he was wrongly fired and is now under investigation for being at Capitol during insurrection
A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent suspended for being at the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection said Tuesday that he has since…
Continue Reading US poverty is still high, but stimulus is stopping it from getting worse
Poverty has soared during the coronavirus pandemic, but it would have been even worse without successive federal relief packages last year. The $600…
Continue Reading Kinzinger on political fundraising: ‘We have fed a steady diet of fear’
Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a vocal critic of Donald Trump who wants to save his party from the former President, thinks politicians have learned…
Continue Reading More than half of all migrants at US-Mexico border expelled under health order in recent weeks
The Biden administration expelled more than half of the migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border in recent weeks under a Trump-era health order that…
Continue Reading Key House chairs request wide range of documents on US Capitol riot
House committee chairs are requesting documents and communications from before, during and after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol from a wide…
Continue Reading Jill Biden cancels trip to Alabama with Jennifer Garner in wake of deadly tornadoes
A scheduled trip to Alabama by first lady Jill Biden on Friday was canceled Thursday evening after deadly tornadoes swept through the state. Biden…
Continue Reading Two Capitol riot cases acknowledge plea talks with the Justice Department
Plea talks between the Justice Department and some defendants in the Capitol riot cases are still in the works, two court proceedings made clear on…
Continue Reading Congress looks to Biden as an ally as it tries to finally rewrite authority for the war on terror
There’s a new movement afoot to finally curb the President’s 9/11 war powers, and the Republicans and Democrats pushing it have hope in a…
Continue Reading GOP-controlled Georgia legislature speeds sweeping elections bill to governor’s desk
In the span of a few hours Thursday, the GOP-controlled Georgia legislature sped a sweeping elections bill through both chambers, putting the…
Continue Reading Lawmakers advance legislation to go further than Biden administration in punishing Saudi Arabia for Khashoggi murder
A House committee on Thursday two bills taking aim at Saudi Arabia in the wake of last month’s intelligence report implicating the…
Continue Reading Wyoming Senate kills bill backed by Donald Trump Jr. in attempt to defeat Liz Cheney
A Wyoming Senate bill to create election runoffs failed on Wednesday, despite Donald Trump Jr.’s campaign to pass it in an attempt to defeat…
Continue Reading Key takeaways from Biden’s first White House news conference
Convening his first formal news conference Thursday, President Joe Biden stepped into a swirl of issues that have bubbled up at the two-month mark of…
Continue Reading US to resume diplomatic ties with Palestinians that were cut under Trump
The US will resume diplomatic ties with Palestinians that were cut under the Trump administration, the US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda…
Continue Reading Georgia bill that would restrict voting access sent immediately to state Senate after House vote
Georgia’s sweeping Republican-backed election-law overhaul bill was sent immediately to the state Senate after it was passed earlier Thursday…
Continue Reading Biden pressed over crisis at the southern border in his first White House news conference
President Joe Biden spent much of his first presidential news conference on Thursday facing questions about the crisis on the southern border,…
Continue Reading Biden says access will be provided to border facilities, but doesn’t give timeline
President Joe Biden said plans are underway to provide journalists access to border facilities, but didn’t provide a timeline on when that…
Continue Reading Biden says he ‘can’t picture’ US troops being in Afghanistan next year
President Joe Biden said he “can’t picture” US troops being in Afghanistan next year. Biden has been wrestling with a May 1…
Continue Reading Biden faces tough questions over crisis at the southern border in first White House news conference
President Joe Biden participated in his first presidential news conference on Thursday, facing the most intense questioning on the crisis at the…
Continue Reading Biden calls state GOP voting restrictions efforts ‘sick’ and ‘un-American’
President Joe Biden said he will “do everything” in his power to halt efforts to restrict voting rights, saying during Thursday’s…
Continue Reading Senate votes to extend Paycheck Protection Program to deliver pandemic relief to businesses
The Senate voted 92-7 on Thursday to extend the Paycheck Protection Program, the federal government’s key relief effort to deliver aid to small…
Continue Reading Biden announces new vaccination goal in his first White House news conference: 200 million shots in first 100 days
President Joe Biden participated in his first presidential news conference on Thursday, where he’s expected face a wide-ranging set of…
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