Mike Pompeo visits Iowa as Republicans start to position themselves for 2024
Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo took an unofficial but unsubtle step into the 2024 Republican presidential race this week, touting former…
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Trump claims Capitol rioters posed ‘zero threat,’ says some being persecuted
WASHINGTON D.C. (ABC) — Former President Donald Trump is defending his supporters who violently assaulted the Capitol on Jan. 6, claiming they posed…
Continue Reading How Trump’s election fraud lie turned into law in Georgia
This is how lies turn into laws that make it harder for people to vote. The same week that a major backer of former President Donald Trump’s…
Continue Reading Pelosi appoints first Black House sergeant-at-arms, William J. Walker
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Friday that she is appointing DC National Guard Major Gen. William J. Walker to be the House…
Continue Reading US Navy plans to send assessment team to Suez Canal to assist with stuck container ship
The US Navy in the Middle East plans to send an assessment team of dredging experts to the Suez Canal as soon as Saturday to advise local authorities…
Continue Reading Romney receives JFK ‘Profile in Courage’ award for impeachment vote
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney is this year’s recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award for being the lone GOP senator to stand up…
Continue Reading Members of Congress may use campaign funds to hire bodyguards, FEC rules
Members of Congress can use campaign funds to hire bodyguards, federal election regulators ruled Thursday — nearly three months after the…
Continue Reading Gayle Manchin nominated to be federal co-chair of Appalachian Regional Commission
Gayle Manchin, an educator and wife of Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, has been nominated to serve as the federal co-chair of the…
Continue Reading Georgia’s new law suppressing the vote is a victory for Trump
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign of lies about a stolen election just delivered a huge victory with a new Georgia law that could…
Continue Reading Second gentleman Doug Emhoff’s first Passover at the White House brings host of changes to traditional celebration
There are very few firsts at a Passover Seder, the traditional holiday meal Jewish people have celebrated for centuries. But for second gentleman…
Continue Reading 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…
Continue Reading Georgia state lawmaker arrested protesting voting restriction bill outside governor’s office
Georgia state Rep. Park Cannon was arrested and removed from the Georgia Capitol on Thursday after passage of the state’s sweeping elections…
Continue Reading 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…
Continue Reading 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 ‘It’s a matter of timing’: Biden lays out expansive theory of his own presidency
Joe Biden offered his most expansive explanation yet of his own presidency on Thursday, presenting himself, at least for now, as a problem solver…
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 Biden’s filibuster flip-flop is outrageous
Watching President Joe Biden’s first press conference today, all I could think was that his performance showed there’s little chance he…
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 Fact-checking Biden’s first news conference as president
President Joe Biden held the first formal news conference of his presidency on Thursday, taking questions in the East Room of the White House on…
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…
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