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 Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed legislation into law Thursday that blocks mask mandates from being implemented in K-12 schools and prohibits cities and…
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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 After the House passed a bill to establish a commission to investigate the events surrounding January 6, Senate Republicans look poised to torpedo…
Continue Reading The Biden administration announced Thursday that it will stop detaining immigrants at two detention centers that came under investigation over…
Continue Reading A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation on Wednesday that would reform the US Postal Service after the struggling agency made repeated…
Continue Reading A group of Democratic senators are calling on President Joe Biden to take “immediate and decisive action” to end Saudi Arabia’s…
Continue Reading President Joe Biden is scheduled to sign a bill into law on Thursday that’s aimed at countering a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes that’s…
Continue Reading National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre sent an encouraging email to approximately 5 million members Wednesday assuring them the organization…
Continue Reading Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders will introduce a resolution on Thursday disapproving of the US sale of $735 million in precision-guided weapons to…
Continue Reading Rep. John Katko isn’t used to making headlines. So, when the New York Republican walked into the US Capitol on Tuesday — hours after he…
Continue Reading Twenty-nine years ago, less than a year after he had taken the bench, Justice Clarence Thomas joined a dissent calling the landmark opinion Roe v.…
Continue Reading A federal judge ruled Wednesday that New York Attorney General Letitia James can intervene in a federal proceeding against two notorious right-wing…
Continue Reading US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday, the first high-level encounter between the US and…
Continue Reading The House voted Wednesday to approve legislation to establish an independent commission to investigate the violent insurrection on January 6 at the…
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