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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 […]
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday he was ordering House Republicans to move ahead with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. “Today, I am directing our House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden,” McCarthy said at the U.S. Capitol in a short formal statement. […]
SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images (ANCHORAGE, Alaska) — President Joe Biden marked the 22nd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Alaska on Monday afternoon. “I join you on this solemn day to renew our sacred vow: never forget,” Biden said as he spoke to service members, first responders and their families at […]
Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As the House returns from recess Tuesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing a new leadership showdown. He’s caught in the middle between a government shutdown threat from House Republican hard-liners demanding spending cuts, opposed to Ukraine aid and threatening to oust him if their demands aren’t met — and […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis attended a 9/11 commemoration ceremony at ground zero in New York City on Monday, appearing with more than a dozen people who lost family members on Sep. 11. The group, many of whom are members of the grassroots organization 9/11 Justice, which represents other 9/11 […]
