January 6 was the crime of the century
The phrase “crime of the century” has been used to describe the most enduring, sensationalist scandals that rocked our nation — the…
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DOJ and House managers zero in on far-right Proud Boys’ role in Capitol attack
In the federal investigation into the Proud Boys and their role in the Capitol insurrection, the Justice Department is pursuing several members of…
Continue Reading New security video shows Officer Eugene Goodman potentially saving Mitt Romney from mob during Capitol riot
New security footage presented during former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial showed even more heroics from Capitol Police Officer…
Continue Reading With new footage, House managers show violent scenes from the Capitol riots in their case against Trump
House impeachment managers Wednesday aired disturbing and gripping footage showing how rioters violently attacked officers as they breached the…
Continue Reading Decision to seek federal search warrant in Rudy Giuliani probe could be early test for Biden’s DOJ
New York federal prosecutors investigating Rudy Giuliani’s activities in Ukraine raised the prospect of seeking a search warrant late last year…
Continue Reading US and South Korea nearing agreement on cost sharing for American troops
Washington and Seoul are narrowing in on a new cost-sharing agreement for US forces in South Korea and could be just weeks away from striking a deal,…
Continue Reading Michigan Senate leader on hot mic after apologizing for calling Capitol riot a hoax: ‘I frankly don’t take back’ points I tried to make
Michigan state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey was caught on a hot microphone on Wednesday approaching Democratic Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist and…
Continue Reading 5 takeaways from Day 2 of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial
The second day of former President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial was dominated by a detailed and damning documentation of the events…
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House approves measure taking aim at limits on crowd sizes
Legislation taking aim at limits on how many people can gather during the coronavirus pandemic cleared the Idaho House on Wednesday, but it doesn’t…
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Proposed Oregon bill aims to limit bans on homeless camping
Cities and counties in Oregon aiming to ban homeless people from sitting, sleeping and camping on public property may soon face a barrier under a…
Continue Reading Michigan Senate leader on hot mic after apologizing for calling Capitol riot a hoax: ‘I don’t take back points I was trying to make’
Michigan state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey was caught on a hot microphone on Wednesday approaching Democratic Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist and…
Continue Reading House managers air new violent Capitol security footage in their case against Trump
House impeachment managers aired new Capitol security footage showing how the rioters violently breached the Capitol and the threat they posed to…
Continue Reading New security video reveals more heroics from Officer Eugene Goodman during Capitol riot
New security footage presented during former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial showed even more heroics from Capitol Police Officer…
Continue Reading Biden administration asks Supreme Court to save Obamacare, flipping Trump arguments
The Biden administration told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that it should uphold the Affordable Care Act, reversing the position of the Trump…
Continue Reading US Capitol police to hold vote of no confidence Thursday
Members of the US Capitol Police plan to hold a vote of no confidence Thursday, more than a month after the January 6 riot at the Capitol that left…
Continue Reading Biden announces Pentagon task force to review China strategy
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that the Department of Defense has established a task force focused on US strategy towards China. “We…
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Bill to end legal notice requirement in newspapers fails
Legislation to end the requirement that government agencies publish legal notices in newspapers failed in the House on…
Continue Reading Impeachment trial: Managers argue Trump campaigned for months to undermine election and incite rioters
House impeachment managers argued Wednesday that former President Donald Trump engaged in a months-long campaign to falsely convince his supporters…
Continue Reading Bernie Sanders presses OMB nominee Neera Tanden over ‘vicious attacks’ on progressives
Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, faced sharp questioning over her past comments critical…
Continue Reading Here’s why only 1 senator changed his impeachment vote
Anyone who watched the back-to-back presentations of the House impeachment managers and former President Donald Trump’s legal team on the first…
Continue Reading Smugglers spread misinformation at the border. The White House says now is not the time to come.
In recent weeks, migrants waiting in various northern Mexican cities have been told to travel to other locations along the border under the false…
Continue Reading Psaki defends Biden administration’s school reopening goal as ‘not the ceiling’
White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the administration’s school reopening goals on Wednesday in the wake of criticism from parents,…
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‘Heartbeat’ abortion ban bill introduced in Idaho Senate
A panel of Idaho lawmakers on Wednesday introduced legislation that would outlaw an abortion once a fetal heartbeat is…
Continue Reading Biden administration continues vaccination push with five new mass vaccination sites in Texas and New York
The Biden administration is partnering with Texas and New York to open additional vaccination centers as it continues its push to vaccinate every…
Continue Reading House managers to use new Capitol security footage in their case against Trump on Wednesday
House impeachment managers are beginning the second day of Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial Wednesday looking to convince skeptical…
Continue Reading Man in far-right militant group joined Capitol mob after appearing with Trump ally Roger Stone
An Oath Keeper who appeared to be providing security for political operative Roger Stone on January 6 later joined an angry mob outside the Capitol,…
Continue Reading Biden son-in-law faces conflict of interest concerns following coronavirus response investments
The White House has pledged to bar President Joe Biden’s family from using the office for personal gain, but questions are being raised by good…
Continue Reading More than 11 million people could lose pandemic unemployment benefits if Congress doesn’t act soon
An estimated 11.4 million workers will lose their unemployment benefits between mid-March and mid-April unless Congress passes its next coronavirus…
Continue Reading Biden son-in-law faces conflicts of interest concerns following coronavirus response investments
The White House has pledged to bar President Joe Biden’s family from using the office for personal gain, but questions are being raised by good…
Continue Reading Harris to start ‘regular’ lunches with Blinken in bid to beef up foreign policy chops
Vice President Kamala Harris will have her first private lunch with Secretary of State Antony Blinken Wednesday, meetings that are expected to…
Continue Reading Trump impeachment defense team scrambling to make new videos to bolster case
President Donald Trump’s legal team is scrambling to collect and produce more videos to bolster their impeachment trial arguments after a…
Continue Reading Investigation opened into Trump’s attempt to influence the Georgia 2020 election
A prosecutor in Fulton County, Georgia, has opened a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump for his “attempts to influence…
Continue Reading House stimulus bill would expand eligibility for Affordable Care Act subsidies
The latest House coronavirus relief legislation would make more people eligible for Affordable Care Act subsidies for two years, temporarily…
Continue Reading Warner and Rubio urge Biden administration to designate a leader on SolarWinds hack response
The top lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee urged the Biden administration on Tuesday to designate a leader to address the US government…
Continue Reading Trump’s lawyer blows up one of Trump’s biggest lies
Former President Donald Trump has never publicly admitted that he was rejected by American voters. But now his lawyer has. On the floor of the US…
Continue Reading Biden to visit Pentagon and pay tribute to Black service members
President Joe Biden on Wednesday will make his first trip to the Pentagon since taking office and will speak to the significance of having the first…
Continue Reading Horrific mob scenes dominate Trump’s impeachment trial
Chilling video evidence on the first day of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, showing his frenzied supporters smashing their way into…
Continue Reading Defense Dept. failing to track and prevent sexual harassment and assault of civilian workforce, watchdog warns
The Department of Defense has failed to adequately track and prevent cases of sexual harassment and sexual assault involving its civilian workforce,…
Continue Reading Democrats want to give parents cash instead of a tax credit
Though it started as a way to provide relief to middle class families, the child tax credit has also evolved into a bipartisan tool for lifting kids…
Continue Reading House managers to make a visceral case against Trump on Wednesday
The House impeachment managers begin their two-day presentation Wednesday looking to convince skeptical Republican senators that former President…
Continue Reading Two men cried in the Senate Tuesday. One of them made a devastating case against Trump
The first day of the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump was a perfect microcosm of the country’s partisan divide and what’s at…
Continue Reading This impeachment trial could surprise us
Now that Donald Trump and his defenders have failed (again) to persuade the Senate that an ex-president cannot be impeached, the trial of the former…
Continue Reading Michigan state Senate leader apologizes for calling Capitol riot a hoax
Michigan state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey apologized Tuesday for calling the US Capitol riot a hoax and espousing several conspiracy…
Continue Reading Trump lawyer presses for former President’s full-time Mar-a-Lago residency
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump were defending him not only on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday in his second impeachment trial, but…
Continue Reading Why Trump’s defense team failed miserably
The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump got underway on Tuesday with arguments about whether the US Senate has jurisdiction to try the former…
Continue Reading Bill Cassidy joins five other Republican senators who broke ranks to vote that Trump’s impeachment trial is constitutional
Six Republicans joined all of their Democratic colleagues on Tuesday to vote that the impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump is…
Continue Reading Merrick Garland, Biden’s pick for attorney general, has confirmation hearing set for February 22
President Joe Biden’s nominee for attorney general, Judge Merrick Garland, is scheduled to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on…
Continue Reading Reading between the lines of the first impeachment trial arguments
The first day of President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial was nominally about the constitutionality of holding an impeachment trial…
Continue Reading Senate GOP rips Trump’s attorney for lackluster arguments on trial’s first day
A wide array of Senate Republicans harshly criticized former President Donald Trump’s defense team on the opening day of his second impeachment…
Continue Reading America’s future was at stake on the first day of the impeachment trial
The second impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump is underway. It is only the fourth impeachment trial in US history, and the first time a…
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Law would let Idaho state treasurer invest in gold, silver
Legislation to allow the Idaho treasurer to invest in gold and silver that must be physically stored in Idaho headed to the full House on…
Continue Reading 5 takeaways from Day 1 of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial
The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump opened promptly at 1 p.m. Tuesday, a historic moment that ensures the 45th…
Continue Reading Sneakers designed in honor of Obama to go on sale for $25,000
They’re not the Air Obamas, but one sneakerhead with a lot of cash will have an opportunity this week to purchase an exclusive pair of…
Continue Reading Senators voting on whether impeachment trial is constitutional following House managers and Trump lawyer debate
The Senate is voting on whether the Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is constitutional, in what could be an early indication…
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Lawmakers seek oversight of local monuments, place names
The House on Tuesday approved legislation requiring cities, towns and schools to get permission from the Legislature to change the historic names of…
Continue Reading Alleged Capitol rioter asks judge to let him visit Peru to get married
A Kentucky man facing four criminal charges linked to the Capitol insurrection asked a federal judge on Tuesday to let him travel to Peru later this…
Continue Reading Trump’s impeachment lawyers have a history of being involved in controversial legal matters
The new lawyers who signed on to lead former President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team brought a curious history of experience with…
Continue Reading Lead impeachment manager Jamie Raskin tearfully recalls Capitol riot: ‘This cannot be the future of America’
Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin on Tuesday delivered a tearful account of his experience during last month’s US Capitol…
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Bill targeting ‘ballot harvesting’ advances to full House
A proposed law making it a felony in Idaho for a third party to collect and return multiple ballots to election officials headed to the full House on…
Continue Reading Biden budget nominee Tanden apologizes for past criticism of Republicans and expresses regret over tweets
President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, apologized on Tuesday for some of the criticism she…
Continue Reading Covid-19 vaccines to be sent directly to community health centers to target ‘hard-to-reach populations’
The Biden administration will send some of the Covid-19 vaccine supply directly to community health centers starting next week as part of an effort…
Continue Reading More than 80 civil rights organizations call on Biden to abolish the federal death penalty
More than 80 nationally recognized criminal justice and civil rights advocacy organizations have joined in the call to President Joe Biden on Tuesday…
Continue Reading Congress has already approved $4 trillion in Covid relief. Here’s what’s happened to it
Congress has authorized nearly $4 trillion in spending over the past year to help address the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, but…
Continue Reading Trump’s wish for a speedier trial prompted impeachment lawyer’s change in approach
The last-minute letter former President Donald Trump’s attorney sent to top lawmakers informing them he would no longer seek a suspension of…
Continue Reading Why you shouldn’t expect another stimulus check for weeks — if at all
Congress is negotiating a fresh stimulus package that would include a third round of stimulus checks, but while there’s broad agreement on the…
Continue Reading Trump’s trial set to rock Washington and echo through the ages
The simple question posed by Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial that begins Tuesday is whether a president who loses reelection can get…
Continue Reading Trump’s second impeachment trial begins as senators face constitutionality debate and vote Tuesday
The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is officially underway. On the trial’s opening day, Trump’s title of former president…
Continue Reading DOJ asks Trump-appointed US attorneys to resign
The Justice Department on Tuesday asked US attorneys appointed by former President Donald Trump to submit their resignations, a turnover that spares…
Continue Reading Trump’s Postmaster General wants to stay on the job, but his days in the Biden administration may be numbered
Embattled Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has told those close to him he wants to stay in his role under the new president, two sources tell CNN,…
Continue Reading Trump’s second impeachment trial begins Tuesday as Democrats prepare a ‘violent crime criminal prosecution’
The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump begins in the Senate on Tuesday, where senators will be confronted with the violent…
Continue Reading DOJ to ask Trump-appointed US attorneys to resign
The Justice Department, as soon as Tuesday, is expected to ask US attorneys appointed by former President Donald Trump to submit their resignations,…
Continue Reading Alleged Oath Keeper charged in Capitol riot says he once worked for FBI and holds security clearance
Thomas Caldwell, a Virginia man whom prosecutors have charged as part of an extremist group’s alleged conspiracy to prepare and attack the…
Continue Reading More than 200 people now charged in connection with Capitol riot
Prosecutors have charged more than 200 people with federal crimes in connection with the January 6 riot and insurrection at the Capitol, according to…
Continue Reading Read: The Senate’s organizing resolution setting the rules for Trump’s impeachment trial
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Monday afternoon that Senate leaders had reached an agreement for an organizing resolution to set the rules…
Continue Reading Democrats’ $3,000 child tax credit idea is about lifting 4 million kids out of poverty
Though it started as a way to provide relief to middle class families, the child tax credit has also evolved into a bipartisan tool for lifting kids…
Continue Reading Ukraine impeachment vs. insurrection impeachment: What to know about Trump’s two trials
Here’s where we are: A president who survived impeachment for trying to stack the deck against his most-feared election opponent is now facing…
Continue Reading House Democrats’ stimulus check plan would exclude families earning more than $200,000
House Democrats have rejected a Republican proposal to significantly narrow eligibility for further stimulus payments and are moving forward with…
Continue Reading Trump’s second impeachment trial begins Tuesday
The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump begins in the Senate on Tuesday, where senators will be confronted with the violent…
Continue Reading Michael Cohen apologizes to Stormy Daniels for causing ‘needless pain’
Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen thanked Stormy Daniels for giving him a second chance and apologized for the “needless…
Continue Reading Meet the House impeachment managers
A select group of House Democrats known as impeachment managers will act as prosecutors when former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment…
Continue Reading Read: OMB nominee Neera Tanden’s opening statement
President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, will appear before the Senate Homeland Security…
Continue Reading Biden OMB nominee to pledge bipartisan approach ahead of tough Senate confirmation hearing
President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, will pledge to bring a bipartisan approach to the role…
Continue Reading Biden and Democrats prepare to act fast on judges, having learned lesson from Trump
President Joe Biden had been in office less than a week when a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction blocking one of his first…
Continue Reading It doesn’t matter how the Senate votes. Trump is already humiliated
The point of Donald Trump’s second impeachment is not his actual conviction. The quivering weakness of many Republican senators, who will not…
Continue Reading 5 things to know for February 9: Impeachment, Covid, stimulus, Myanmar, North Korea
After a full year of being pulled down by the pandemic, global oil prices are roaring back. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and…
Continue Reading When they spotted a familiar face at the Capitol riots, they reported it to authorities
When crowds of former President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed into the US Capitol weeks ago, hundreds of photos and videos emerged: clips…
Continue Reading The 3 defenses of Donald Trump
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers have explained how will they defend him in his second impeachment trial against the charge that he…
Continue Reading Trump lawyer withdraws request not to have impeachment trial on Sabbath
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer David Schoen is withdrawing his request to not hold the impeachment trial on the Jewish Sabbath,…
Continue Reading House Republicans who backed impeaching Trump have no regrets as Senate GOP reckons with former President’s role
They’ve faced sharp backlash from former President Donald Trump and his supporters and been censured by their state parties, all the while…
Continue Reading Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg quarantining after security agent tests positive
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will quarantine for 14 days after a member of his security detail tested positive for Covid-19, department…
Continue Reading Trump tells aides he thinks he’ll be acquitted as he remains fixated on ‘accountability’ for GOP lawmakers who voted to impeach
Former President Donald Trump has been reaching out to aides and advisers to discuss his upcoming Senate impeachment trial, sources familiar with the…
Continue Reading Fact check: How Trump’s lawyers twisted the facts in their anti-impeachment filing
In a new legal filing, lawyers for former President Donald Trump accused the House Democrats who are leading Trump’s impeachment trial of…
Continue Reading US deploying B-1 bombers to Norway to send a message to Russia
The US Air Force is deploying B-1 bombers to Norway for the first time in a move that sends a clear message to Moscow that the US military will…
Continue Reading The 11 most important lines from Liz Cheney’s blockbuster Fox News interview
Fresh off a surprisingly strong vote of support within the House Republican conference, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney sat for an interview with “Fox…
Continue Reading House Republicans who backed impeaching Trump have no regrets as party reckons with former President’s role
They’ve faced sharp backlash from former President Donald Trump and his supporters and been censured by their state parties, all the while…
Continue Reading GOP Rep. Ron Wright dies following Covid diagnosis
Republican Rep. Ron Wright of Texas has died, his congressional office announced in a statement Monday, saying that he had been admitted to the…
Continue Reading Security at US Capitol on high alert for Trump impeachment trial
The unprecedented second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump will take place under extraordinary security inside the US Capitol…
Continue Reading Democrats unveil $3,000 child benefit as part of Biden relief package
House Democratic leaders unveiled legislation Monday that would give millions of families at least $3,000 per child, advancing a key provision in…
Continue Reading Blinken says Capitol insurrection hurt US standing as defender of democracy
Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that the insurrection attempt on the Capitol by President Donald Trump’s…
Continue Reading Leadership failures led to major Covid outbreak on aircraft carrier, watchdog report finds
The leadership of the USS Theodore Roosevelt failed to put in place measures to stop a coronavirus outbreak on board the aircraft carrier and…
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