House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s push to create a bipartisan commission that would investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol is in danger as House Democrats turn to their committees to conduct their own sweeping probe as a fallback option, with a bipartisan path to an independent panel appearing elusive. Nine Democrats who chair
Continue Reading President Joe Biden is “looking” at what executive actions he can take on guns, particularly when it comes to regulating imported weapons and those made with “3D equipment,” he told reporters on the tarmac in Delaware on Friday. “We’re looking at that right now,” Biden said. “We’re looking at what kind of authority I have
Continue Reading Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin “know they’re invited” to join a US-hosted virtual summit on climate, President Joe Biden told reporters on Friday. “I haven’t yet, but they know they’re invited,” Biden said, when asked on the White House’s South Lawn if he’d invited the two leaders to join the event.
Continue ReadingGeorgia’s new sweeping elections law has a number of controversial provisions that will restrict access to voting. But one in particular has some people shaking their heads. Under the bill, signed into law Thursday night by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, it’s now illegal to hand out food or water to people standing in line to
Continue Reading Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo took an unofficial but unsubtle step into the 2024 Republican presidential race this week, touting former President Donald Trump’s administration’s foreign policy record in front of a large breakfast crowd Friday during a two-day swing through Iowa. Pompeo’s trip here was a starting gun of sorts — the first
Continue ReadingHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Friday that she is appointing DC National Guard Major Gen. William J. Walker to be the House sergeant-at-arms, noting in the announcement that he will be the first Black American to serve in the role. Before Walker can begin serving as House sergeant-at-arms, the House must hold a majority
Continue Reading 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 attempting to free the gigantic container ship which has been stuck there since Tuesday, according to two defense officials. The Ever Given, a container ship almost as
Continue ReadingRepublican 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 to then-President Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial, but he’s being awarded the honor at a time when he is not holding his own party accountable for restricting
Continue Reading Members of Congress can use campaign funds to hire bodyguards, federal election regulators ruled Thursday — nearly three months after the violent January 6 siege on the US Capitol raised fresh concerns about lawmakers’ safety. The 5-1 vote by the Federal Election Commission allows lawmakers to use donors’ money for “bona fide, legitimate, professional personal
Continue Reading 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 Appalachian Regional Commission, the White House said in a news release Friday. The commission is an economic development partnership agency of the federal government and 13 state governments working toward
Continue ReadingFormer President Donald Trump on Thursday attempted to whitewash the history of the January 6 Capitol riot by pushing the false suggestion that his supporters were “hugging and kissing” police officers and posed “zero threat” despite widespread violence, injuries to law enforcement officers and five deaths. It’s an outrageous attempt by Trump to rewrite the
Continue ReadingThere are very few firsts at a Passover Seder, the traditional holiday meal Jewish people have celebrated for centuries. But for second gentleman Doug Emhoff, this Passover is very different than any he has celebrated in the past. “Now this is a moment of many firsts,” Emhoff declared, sitting solo in front of the White
Continue Reading 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 relief programs, the Justice Department announced Friday. The announcement came one year after the passage of the $2 trillion economic aid legislation known as the CARES Act, which aimed to
Continue ReadingGeorgia state Rep. Park Cannon was arrested and removed from the Georgia Capitol on Thursday after passage of the state’s sweeping elections bill restricting voting access. In a video posted to social media, a Georgia Capitol police officer speaks with the Democrat outside the door to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s office. After knocking on the
Continue ReadingFormer President Donald Trump on Thursday attempted to whitewash the history of the January 6 Capitol riot by pushing the false suggestion that his supporters were “hugging and kissing” police officers and posed “zero threat” despite widespread violence, injuries to law enforcement officers and five deaths. It’s an outrageous attempt by Trump to rewrite the
Continue ReadingFive years after the death of conservative hero Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court justices continue to joust over who among them is truly preserving — or, alternatively, disserving — his legacy. Their moves will help define how the court’s six conservatives differentiate themselves from one another in cases and set the course of the nation’s law.
Continue Reading 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 agenda push. Emilie Simons will join the White House as an assistant press secretary after working for members in both chambers of Congress, most recently as the communications director for
Continue Reading 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 recipients are among those still waiting to get the money. The delay affects those who receive Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Railroad Retirement Board benefits, and Veterans Affairs pensioners. They will
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden cast challenges to the US from China, Russia and global shifts in stark terms Thursday, describing “a battle between the utility of democracies in the 21st century and autocracies.” The President underscored that the United States faces an unprecedented array of tests, with Beijing posing what might be the trickiest strategic challenge
Continue Reading The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday deadlocked in a party-line vote on the nomination of Vanita Gupta to be associate attorney general, but her confirmation is still on track with the expected support of moderate Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. The committee voted 11-11 along party lines in a tie vote Thursday, which
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