Nike sneakers designed in honor of Obama withdrawn from sale, auction house says
An exclusive pair of Nike basketball sneakers designed in honor of former President Barack Obama were pulled from the luxury auctioneer…
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Bill would make it harder to get initiatives on Idaho ballot
Legislation intended to make it more difficult to get an initiative or referendum on the Idaho ballot has been introduced.…
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The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump has been a riveting and disturbing drama — even as we know it will almost certainly…
Continue Reading Blinken removing Yemen’s Houthis from list of foreign terrorist organizations effective next week
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is removing Yemen’s Houthi rebels from the US list of foreign terrorist organizations as of next Tuesday,…
Continue Reading US files complaint with Israel over unfair airline treatment for Tel Aviv flights
The US Department of Transportation has filed a complaint with Israel over unfair treatment of airlines, stemming from the closure of Ben Gurion…
Continue Reading Inside the Senate chamber: Sketches of senators and empty desks during Day 3 of the impeachment trial
The energy level in the Senate was reserved Thursday as the House managers wrapped up their second full day of arguments in the impeachment trial of…
Continue Reading Paramilitant communications under close scrutiny in Capitol riot investigation, court records show
Secret communications cited in court records are revealing just how aggressively federal prosecutors are working to understand the paramilitary…
Continue Reading If Trump is acquitted, then we may as well strike the impeachment provision from the Constitution
In today’s partisan political world, we often hear folks on both sides of the aisle say, “Elections have consequences,” to explain…
Continue Reading Nikki Haley makes her move against Donald Trump
Nikki Haley hasn’t said much about Donald Trump and the future of the Republican Party since the former President went down the rabbit hole of…
Continue Reading Nikki Haley criticizes Trump and says he has no future in the GOP
Former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley directly criticized former President Donald Trump for his involvement stoking the US Capitol…
Continue Reading Biden says he’s anxious to see what Republicans do in impeachment trial
President Joe Biden said Friday he is “anxious” to see how Senate Republicans will vote in the impeachment trial and whether they will…
Continue Reading Trump lawyers have a lot of explaining to do
On Day 3 of Trump Impeachment 2, the Democratic House managers provided compelling evidence that Donald Trump knew that what he was saying on Jan. 6…
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Justice Department says an Oath Keepers leader waited for Trump’s direction before Capitol attack
The Justice Department is now making clear that a leader among the Oath Keepers paramilitary group — who planned and led others in the US…
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg was already the subject of a splendid documentary in CNN Films’ “RBG” and a dramatic movie (“On the Basis…
Continue Reading Woman who allegedly broke a Capitol window with a battering ram will be released from jail pending trial, judge rules
Rachel Powell, the Pennsylvania mother of eight who allegedly broke a Capitol window with a battering ram during the January 6 riot, will be released…
Continue Reading Military officials were unaware of potential danger to Pence’s ‘nuclear football’ during Capitol riot
Military officials overseeing the authorization process to launch nuclear weapons were unaware on January 6 that then-Vice President Mike…
Continue Reading Fact check: Claim about an insurrectionist trying to send a Pelosi laptop to Russia hasn’t been proven
Arguing that the Capitol insurrection damaged US national security, one of the House impeachment managers, Rep. Joaquin Castro, spoke Thursday about…
Continue Reading Netanyahu’s wait for a call from Biden raises questions about US priorities
The White House insists President Joe Biden will “soon” speak with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but the wait, which…
Continue Reading House committee advances key portion of Covid-19 relief bill hours after Democrats finish arguments in impeachment trial
The House Ways and Means Committee advanced its portion of the coronavirus relief bill Thursday just hours after the House impeachment managers…
Continue Reading How Americans know Trump is guilty
One reason to put an impeached president on trial after he has left office is to deliver a clear, decisive verdict that the defendant’s actions…
Continue Reading 5 takeaways from Day 3 of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial
On Thursday, the House impeachment managers wrapped up their case for the conviction of Donald Trump for inciting the US Capitol riot on January 6,…
Continue Reading Get ready for Trump’s defense
House Democrats rested their case against of President Donald Trump. House impeachment managers dedicated the third day of Trump’s second…
Continue Reading Three GOP senators meet with Trump’s lawyers on eve of impeachment defense presentation
A trio of Republican senators allied with former President Donald Trump met with his defense team Thursday evening, in the middle of an impeachment…
Continue Reading How we know Trump is guilty
One reason to put an impeached president on trial after he has left office is to deliver a clear, decisive verdict that the defendant’s actions…
Continue Reading Trump’s defense team expected to finish its arguments in one day
Former President Donald Trump’s defense team expects to finish its arguments in the Senate’s impeachment trial by Friday night, two…
Continue Reading Biden declares there will be enough vaccines for 300 million Americans by end of July
President Joe Biden on Thursday announced that the United States will have enough coronavirus vaccines for 300 million Americans by the end of July,…
Continue Reading Read lead impeachment manager Jamie Raskin’s closing remarks in the House’s case against Trump
House impeachment managers on Thursday concluded their case against Donald Trump, urging senators to convict the former President for inciting the…
Continue Reading Trump’s COVID-19 condition was so concerning that doctors considered putting him on a ventilator, source confirms
Former President Donald Trump’s condition after testing positive for COVID-19 became so concerning last October that there was talk of putting…
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‘Ballot harvesting’ bill stalls in House amid opposition
The second-most powerful member of the House took the unusual step on Thursday of sending his own bill to be amended after a debate on the House…
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Hemp legalization bill introduced
The House Agriculture Committee voted Thursday to introduce a bill to legalize industrial hemp in…
Continue Reading Impeachment managers conclude their case and urge Senate to convict Trump for inciting insurrection
House impeachment managers concluded their case against Donald Trump on Thursday, urging the Senate over two days to convict the former President for…
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Bill banning trans athletes in girls sports advances in Utah
Transgender athletes would be barred from playing on girls’ sports teams under a bill that advanced Thursday in Utah, one of more than a dozen states…
Continue Reading CNN to host town hall with President Joe Biden
Less than one month after taking office, President Joe Biden will participate in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, answering questions from…
Continue Reading Pelosi introduces legislation to grant Congress’ highest honor to police who protected Capitol during insurrection
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced legislation on Thursday to grant the Congressional Gold Medal to US Capitol Police officers and law enforcement…
Continue Reading Trump is already shaping the 2022 Senate battle
The 2022 election cycle could extend the Republican Party’s embrace of former President Donald Trump, despite the fears of some Republicans who…
Continue Reading Impeachment managers are finishing their case against Trump at Senate trial
House impeachment managers charged Thursday that the insurrectionists carried out their attack on the US Capitol on behalf of former President Donald…
Continue Reading House Del. Stacey Plaskett makes history at Senate impeachment trial
When lead House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin introduced Stacey Plaskett at the Senate trial of former President Donald Trump, he highlighted the…
Continue Reading White House meeting with airline execs as it considers testing domestic travelers for Covid
The White House is holding a meeting with major airline executives on Friday amid industry uproar over the possibility of testing domestic travelers…
Continue Reading Former Republican officials float possibility of forming ‘center-right’ party
A group of more than 100 former Republican officials have discussed the possibility of forming a “center right” party due to their…
Continue Reading Biden’s 100-day plan to reopen schools meets with a messy reality
President Joe Biden’s pledge to reopen most American schools within his first 100 days in office is in danger of going off the rails as…
Continue Reading White House now says Biden ‘will not rest until every school is open five days a week’
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday that President Joe Biden’s goal is to have schools open five days a week in-person, but…
Continue Reading Biden prepares rollback of controversial Trump-era policy on migrants at southern border
The Biden administration is preparing plans for the gradual entry of migrants forced to remain in Mexico under a controversial Trump-era policy,…
Continue Reading McCarthy defends attending his son’s wedding amid peak of pandemic in December
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is defending his decision to attend his son’s wedding in California in early December amid the resurgence…
Continue Reading Biden administration extends fair housing protections to LGBTQ Americans
Protections under the Fair Housing Act will now cover LGBTQ Americans, the Biden administration announced Thursday, a move that allows the federal…
Continue Reading What is ‘incitement’ — and what does it mean for Trump’s impeachment defense?
The allegation of “incitement” is central to the impeachment case House Democrats are making against former President Donald Trump…
Continue Reading Impeachment managers slated to wrap up their case against Trump at Senate trial
House impeachment managers will finish arguing their case on Thursday that former President Donald Trump incited an insurrection one day after they…
Continue Reading Biden speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping for first time as President
President Joe Biden spoke with China’s President Xi Jinping for two hours late Wednesday, their first call since Biden took office. “Last…
Continue Reading GOP senators signal they plan to acquit Trump despite visceral presentation by House Democrats
The House impeachment managers presented senators with videos of their colleagues fleeing a pro-Trump mob, which breached the US Capitol shouting…
Continue Reading The impeachment trial’s virtual reality
Before former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, many Capitol Hill Republicans had argued it was futile to force them to relive the…
Continue Reading Building the big one: Behind the scenes of Biden’s $1.9 trillion bet
On January 5, as results came in from the Senate runoff election in Georgia, the texts between President-elect Joe Biden’s senior staff went…
Continue Reading Lindsey Graham has a very bad take on the Senate impeachment trial
Minutes after the second day of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial concluded Wednesday night, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham…
Continue Reading New details on Capitol’s day of terror are devastating indictment of Trump
Impeachment prosecutors took senators on a wrenching journey inside the horror of the US Capitol insurrection, making a devastating case that Donald…
Continue Reading Biden to meet with senators on infrastructure amid Trump’s impeachment trial
President Joe Biden on Thursday will meet with a bipartisan group of senators to discuss rebuilding America’s infrastructure, a show of how the…
Continue Reading Former Republican officials float possibility of forming conservative party
A group of more than 100 former Republican officials have discussed the possibility of forming a conservative party due to their unhappiness with the…
Continue Reading State Dept. planning Blinken’s first international trips in mid-to-late March
The State Department is planning Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s first international trips in mid-to-late March, two sources familiar with…
Continue Reading Trump advisers say he hasn’t shown remorse for the insurrection and relationship with Pence remains damaged
Advisers to former President Donald Trump say he still has not expressed remorse for the siege at the US Capitol, which could end up being important…
Continue Reading Biden administration is ‘not where we want to be’ on genetic sequencing of Covid-19 variants
With coronavirus variants posing a serious threat to President Joe Biden’s efforts to contain the pandemic, a Biden official tells CNN that the…
Continue Reading Use of troops in vaccination effort is off to a slow start
The Biden administration’s rollout out of active-duty troops to boost vaccination capacity is off to a slow start as the Federal Emergency…
Continue Reading Biden announces US will sanction Myanmar’s military leaders following coup
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced that the United States will sanction Myanmar’s military leaders after last week’s coup in the…
Continue Reading Trump unhappy with his impeachment attorney’s performance, sources say
Former President Donald Trump was unhappy with his impeachment lawyer Bruce Castor’s opening argument on the Senate floor Tuesday, two people…
Continue Reading How will GOP senators ignore this?
What must Republican senators be thinking after Wednesday’s presentations from the House impeachment managers? How will they justify acquitting…
Continue Reading Key moments from the second day of Trump’s impeachment trial
The second day of former President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial brought sobering new security footage and police radio audio of the…
Continue Reading New video helping investigators in search for suspects in US Capitol police officer’s death
Federal authorities have narrowed to a handful the number of suspects in the death of US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, a US official briefed…
Continue Reading ‘You’re upside down, Tom’: Congressman appears upside-down on video during hearing
Rep. Tom Emmer made a topsy-turvy video entrance during a hearing on Wednesday — in fact, he was literally upside-down. Emmer, a Minnesota…
Continue Reading 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…
Continue Reading 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…
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