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Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate leaders voted Wednesday night in favor of the short-term government funding bill the House passed Tuesday night ahead of Friday’s shutdown deadline. House Speaker Mike Johnson pitched a two-step plan that he described as a “laddered CR” — or continuing resolution — that will keep the government funded at […]
AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House denied Wednesday that U.S. confirmation of intelligence that Hamas uses Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza as a control center had anything to do with the timing of the Israeli military operation there, which began just hours earlier. “My delivery of some downgraded information yesterday, that, the […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate leaders on Wednesday were hoping to take up the short-term government funding bill the House passed Tuesday night — saying they’ll work to get the bill over the finish line as soon as possible ahead of Friday’s shutdown deadline. Speaker Mike Johnson pitched a two-step plan that he described as […]
Scott Eisen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump is gradually shaking off attempts to bar him from individual states’ 2024 ballots under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, a constitutional clause which disqualifies people from running for office if they previously held office, swore an oath to the Constitution and then engaged in “insurrection […]
Philip Pacheco/Bloomberg via Getty Images (SAN FRANCISCO) — President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping on Wednesday were holding their first face-face meeting in more than a year amid tensions in the U.S.-China relationship. Fort security reasons, the two leaders were holding talks at a private location in the San Francisco area near where the […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden said he will continue to pursue remedies to the threats caused by climate change following the release of the Fifth National Climate Assessment on Tuesday — but he acknowledged that it’s still not enough and that some Republicans are getting in the way of more progress. “This […]
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Angie Craig’s physical injuries healed relatively quickly after a February assault in her apartment building — but her “mental and emotional” recovery has taken “much longer” and is ongoing while she grapples with continued safety concerns, she said in a new victim impact statement. Her […]
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — When National Archives officials approached attorneys for President Joe Biden in the fall of 2022 seeking access to government records he still had in his possession — some of which, they had learned, might contain classified information — the archivists appeared to face little resistance. “In […]
Lintao Zhang/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are set to meet Wednesday in the San Francisco area at an undisclosed location for their first face-to-face meeting in a year. The bar for success is low – anything that stops the relationship from getting worse would be a win. In fact, […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett, one of the eight Republicans who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy from the speakership last month, claimed to ABC News that McCarthy elbowed him in the back after a House GOP meeting on Tuesday morning. “He just elbowed me in the kidneys … It was deliberate. It […]
