The Biden administration has secured agreements for Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala to tighten their borders and stem the flow of migration, Special…
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The Biden administration recently decided to keep the Trump-appointed US ambassador on the job in Moscow for the foreseeable future, two senior…
Continue ReadingSecretary of State Antony Blinken named retired ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley as the department’s first chief diversity and inclusion…
Continue ReadingFamilies who lost loved ones to Covid-19 can now get help with funeral expenses from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The agency launched on…
Continue ReadingUS climate envoy John Kerry is traveling to China this week to discuss potential joint US-China efforts on climate change, according to two…
Continue ReadingMany members of the American military and their family members stationed outside the US are growing increasingly frustrated at the pace of the…
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden plans to nominate Tucson, Arizona, police chief Chris Magnus to serve as commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection and Ur…
Continue ReadingIn the week before last November’s general election, Iowa progressive activist Mitch Henry scoured neighborhoods on the east and south sides of…
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden plans to nominate Tucson, Arizona, police chief Chris Magnus to serve as commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection and Ur…
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden’s German shepherd, Major, will receive training after two biting incidents involving workers at the White House, according…
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden will meet with a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Monday afternoon to discuss his roughly $2 trillion jobs and infrastructure…
Continue ReadingEven though President Joe Biden has moved to reverse many of his predecessor’s anti-immigration policies, the consequences of those restrictive…
Continue ReadingCongress will return to Washington this week with a host of problems to address — but no clear legislative paths to resolve any of them. On…
Continue ReadingWyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, called allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz “sickening” on Sunday, but stopped short…
Continue ReadingRamsey Clark, the former US attorney general and legal activist, has died at the age of 93, his granddaughter told CNN. Clark died Friday at his home…
Continue ReadingMore than 240,000 of Wisconsin’s lowest-income households could lose $50 million in pandemic food stamp benefits next month due to the ongoing…
Continue ReadingLawmakers in Maryland enacted a slate of police reform measures on Saturday by overriding Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of the bills,…
Continue ReadingSecretary of State Antony Blinken criticized China Sunday for not disclosing information on Covid-19 and its aggression in Taiwan and said that the…
Continue ReadingArkansas’ Republican governor on Sunday knocked former President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on top party leaders as…
Continue ReadingFor 200 years, Boston has been led by an unbroken string of White men — until now. Kim Janey, a Black woman who traces her roots in the city…
Continue ReadingDonors to the Republican National Committee gathered this weekend for the first time since Donald Trump’s defeat just down the road from his…
Continue ReadingConcerns are mounting from bipartisan US lawmakers and Afghan women’s rights activists that the hard-won gains for women and civil society in…
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As they chart the country’s tentative economic recovery, White House officials see possibility in the wake of the pandemic — an opportunity to dive…
Continue ReadingIn the beginning stages of Pennsylvania’s high stakes Democratic Senate primary, even the most progressive of candidates are downplaying the…
Continue ReadingThe Brent Spence Bridge, which spans the Ohio River, has long been a political football and a symbol of government dysfunction. On one of the busiest…
Continue ReadingRepublican Rep. Dan Crenshaw announced Saturday that he will be “effectively blind” and “off the grid” for the next few weeks…
Continue ReadingRepublican Rep. Peter Meijer has a warning for his party: He fears baseless conspiracy theories like QAnon will destroy the GOP from within if…
Continue ReadingNearly 40% of US Marines are declining Covid-19 vaccinations, according to data provided to CNN on Friday by the service, the first branch to…
Continue ReadingThe House Ethics Committee said Friday it was opening an investigation into the allegations surrounding embattled Rep. Matt Gaetz,…
Continue ReadingThe Department of Defense is seeking a sharper definition of prohibited extremist activity, among other steps, as it pushes forward with a fight…
Continue ReadingThe Justice Department has been making public what they’ve learned about the Oath Keepers paramilitary organization — which had at least…
Continue ReadingA senior State Department official said that questions remain about whether Iran seriously wants to return to compliance with the nuclear deal after…
Continue ReadingA Pennsylvania man accused of bear-spraying US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died after the January 6 riot, is in talks with the Justice…
Continue ReadingThe financial future of the National Rifle Association is playing out in a contentious battle in a Texas courtroom. The country’s largest gun…
Continue ReadingIllinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger became the first congressional Republican to call on his colleague from Florida, Rep. Matt Gaetz, to resign in the face…
Continue ReadingThe Biden administration is spending at least $62 million a week to care for unaccompanied migrant children in the custody of the Department of…
Continue ReadingFederal prosecutors have arrested and charged Seth Aaron Pendley of Wichita Falls, Texas, with trying to blow up an Amazon data center. Court filings…
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden‘s border coordinator is stepping down at the end of the month, the White House announced Friday — an unusual time…
Continue ReadingReports received by the state of Texas about the care of unaccompanied migrant children housed in a San Antonio facility and released Friday by Gov.…
Continue ReadingIn his first days in office, President Joe Biden proposed expanding the number of refugees who could be admitted to the United States after years of…
Continue ReadingThe Biden administration will not shut down the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline while an environmental review is conducted, a blow to the…
Continue ReadingTexas Republican Party chairman Allen West falsely suggested that Texas could secede from the United States and become an independent country, a CNN…
Continue ReadingThe Senate Leadership Fund will support Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski in her reelection campaign, setting up a clash between the Mitch McConnell-aligned…
Continue ReadingA 36-member commission the White House established to study the US Supreme Court will not make final recommendations for reform, according to details…
Continue ReadingThe POW/MIA flag was once again flying atop the White House Friday morning after it was moved to another location on the White House grounds in the…
Continue ReadingA new Senate complaint filed by an outside group against Sen. Marsha Blackburn for flashing her congressional pin to a US Capitol Police officer is…
Continue ReadingA former Trump administration appointee privately boasted last year about influencing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s scientific…
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Former House Speaker John Boehner writes in his new book that he’s not sure there’s a place for him in today’s Republican Party,…
Continue ReadingSupreme Court justices will close out their oral arguments for the current session as they began, in teleconference sessions with justices and…
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