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…
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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…
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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…
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‘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…
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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 ReadingBiden 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 ReadingDEA 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…
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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 ReadingUS 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 ReadingFact-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…
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Study says Covid-19 vaccines provide protection for pregnant and lactating women — and their newborns
The Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines are effective in pregnant and lactating women, who can pass protective antibodies to newborns,…
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 ReadingCongress 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…
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Biden, a President who doesn’t insult people — or our intelligence
Anyone hoping President Joe Biden’s first formal news conference Thursday would produce a series of gaffes and misstatements must be deeply…
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