The Labor Department has exhausted its options for continuing to pay an extra $300 a week in federal unemployment benefits to jobless people in the…
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The battle to expand Medicaid in Missouri has now shifted to the courtroom. A lawsuit was filed Thursday to force GOP Gov. Mike Parson to expand…
Continue Reading Labor Secretary Martin Walsh has denied he was aware of domestic violence allegations against the Boston Police commissioner when he appointed him to…
Continue Reading President Joe Biden — having weathered the first major foreign crisis of his presidency that tested the bounds of his decades-long friendship…
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EL PASO, Texas — More than 1.8 million people made their way through a Transportation Security Agency checkpoint at airports across the nation this…
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — The former leader of the state Workforce Solutions Department that oversees unemployment benefits said his resignation in…
Continue Reading Federal prosecutors seized 18 electronic devices belonging to Rudy Giuliani and more than one of his employees when they raided his home and office…
Continue Reading The Trump administration secretly sought and obtained the 2017 phone and email records of a CNN correspondent, the latest instance where federal…
Continue Reading Justin Amash, a former Republican congressman, argued that propping up GOP Rep. Liz Cheney as “some sort of hero” for breaking with her…
Continue Reading In the weeks after Texas state Rep. Kyle Biedermann stood near the steps of the US Capitol where rioters soon brawled with police, he returned to the…
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — When Bridget Wiedenmeyer learned Texas was banning mask mandates in public schools, she immediately worried about her…
Continue Reading President Joe Biden on Thursday touted the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas during a hastily arranged White House speech in response to the…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hailing the impending cease-fire in the fighting between Israel and Hamas, saying he sees a “genuine…
Continue Reading President Joe Biden plans to address quickly moving developments in the Middle East from the White House on Thursday evening. It will be the first…
Continue Reading After taking back the House in 2018, Nancy Pelosi called herself “a bridge to the next generation of leaders” and agreed to a deal:…
Continue Reading The US military has seen a 55% jump in Covid-19 vaccinations among active-duty service members over the last month, a senior defense official told…
Continue Reading Republican lawmakers have recently downplayed or outright denied the violence of the January 6 insurrection as a bipartisan agreement to investigate…
Continue Reading Sen. Chris Murphy, who’s been leading the charge to secure a long-shot bipartisan deal on a gun background checks bill, told CNN on Thursday he…
Continue Reading President Joe Biden became increasingly impatient with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following a blunt phone call Wednesday in which the…
Continue Reading President Joe Biden signed into law on Thursday a bill that is aimed at countering a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes during the coronavirus pandemic,…
Continue Reading Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed legislation into law Thursday that blocks mask mandates from being implemented in K-12 schools and prohibits cities and…
Continue Reading Just south of Tucson, Arizona, lies one of the most treacherous stretches of the US-Mexico border: 262 miles of hot, dry, often mountainous terrain.…
Continue Reading The United Nations refugee agency urged the United States on Thursday to end Trump-era asylum restrictions on the US-Mexico border the Biden…
Continue Reading The White House is backing off a May 25 deadline to pass police reform legislation, leaving timing up to lawmakers who are still engaged in…
Continue Reading Justin Amash, a former Republican congressman, argued that propping up GOP Rep. Liz Cheney as “some sort of hero” for breaking with her…
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — President Joe Biden signed into law on Thursday a bill that is aimed at countering a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes during…
Continue Reading The House of Representatives voted by a thin margin on Thursday to pass a $1.9 billion spending bill to increase security at the US Capitol in…
Continue Reading After the House passed a bill to establish a commission to investigate the events surrounding January 6, Senate Republicans look poised to torpedo…
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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. House on Thursday narrowly approved $1.9 billion to fortify the U.S. Capitol after the Jan. 6 insurrection, as Democrats…
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