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Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Building on a key part of his pitch to conservative voters, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said during a speech in the nation’s capital on Wednesday that he wants to cut the federal workforce by 75% — in part by dismantling the government. Ramaswamy spoke at the America First Policy Institute […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney will not seek reelection in 2024, he announced Wednesday — marking the potential end to a storied conservative career that had in recent years put him in conflict with his party’s standard-bearer, Donald Trump. In a video statement, Romney, 76, touted his role in major pieces […]
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House on Wednesday vigorously defended the administration’s deal with Iran to free five detained Americans in exchange for unfreezing $6 billion in Iranian oil revenue and the release of five Iranian citizens in U.S. custody. The $6 billion for humanitarian aid is coming from a restricted account […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (ATLANTA, GA) — An appeals court on Wednesday granted former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ request for an expedited review of his emergency motion seeking to block a lower court’s ruling that kept his Georgia election interference case in state court. Meadows appealed to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals after Judge […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a new interview that he has “lots of regrets” about how the United States’ 20-year conflict in Afghanistan ended, telling ABC News’ Martha Raddatz that “in the broader sense, the war was lost.” August marked the two-year anniversary of […]
Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (AUSTIN, Tex.) — A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday ruled — again — that the federal government’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is illegal, but he refrained from taking action to remove protections for the hundreds of thousands of young immigrants shielded under DACA. The program, which began […]
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Mary Peltola’s, D-Alaska, office announced Wednesday that her husband died in a plane accident in Alaska. “We are devastated to share that Mary’s husband, Eugene Peltola Jr. — ‘Buzzy’ to all of us who knew and loved him — passed away earlier this morning following a plane accident in Alaska,” […]
Aaron Schwartz/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A Trump-era opinion issued by the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel is being highlighted as a possible barrier for House Republicans in their impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden. Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday directed House committees to move ahead with the inquiry without a House vote. A […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (ATLANTA, GA) — The same federal judge who denied former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ effort to move his Fulton County election interference case to federal court has denied Meadows’ request for an emergency stay of the order, pending appeal. Judge Steve Jones said in his order Tuesday that Meadows “failed to show […]
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ push to overhaul the state’s expansive public records law stumbled at the start of a special legislative session she called this week, with Republican leaders late Monday reworking a bill to enact her changes as Sanders, who says the move is […]
