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Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio is set to be sentenced Tuesday for his conviction on charges of seditious conspiracy and several other felonies stemming from his leadership role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. Tarrio will be the final leader of […]
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate is set for an uncertain and busy return from its August recess Tuesday, with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s health in question and a stocked to-do list looming. The longtime GOP leader last week appeared to freeze for more than 30 seconds while giving remarks […]
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — First lady Dr. Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, her communications director confirmed Monday. “This evening, the First lady tested positive for COVID-19. She is currently experiencing only mild symptoms,” Elizabeth Alexander, communications director for the first lady, said in a statement Sunday night. Dr. […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images (SALEM, N.H.) — Former Vice President Mike Pence and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who have become fast foils on the 2024 campaign trail, attended the same picnic in Salem, New Hampshire, on Labor Day, their first time in the same space since sparring at last month’s debate. But Pence slipped out shortly […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Kelly Barnett had a “horrible feeling” about her son after learning of the suicide bombing at Abbey Gate outside Kabul’s airport amid the hectic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. “I kept texting him, ‘Are you OK? Are you good?’” Barnett, mother of Marine Staff Sgt. Darin “Taylor” Hoover, told ABC This Week […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, one of Donald Trump’s rivals in the 2024 race and one of the former president’s biggest defenders on the trail, said Sunday that while he would have made different judgments than Trump regarding Jan. 6 and the handling of classified documents — those decisions shouldn’t […]
Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — President Joe Biden celebrated Labor Day with remarks in front of a union crowd in Philadelphia. Biden, who says he’s the most pro-union president in history, spoke at the Tri-State Labor Day Parade hosted by the Philadelphia AFL-CIO, which is comprised of more than 100 local unions […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia on Sunday said that he believes a strong legal argument can be made to use the 14th Amendment to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot in 2024, citing Trump’s actions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Shortly after […]
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Bill Richardson was known for many things, the former governor of New Mexico, ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary under the Clinton administration, but one of his most significant professional achievements was working to free wrongfully detained American citizens abroad. Richardson died at 75 at his summer […]
Tasos Katopodis / Stringer/Getty Images (NEW MEXICO) — Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who also served in Congress and as secretary of the Department of Energy in the Clinton administration, has died, according to the Richardson Center for Global Engagement, the organization he founded to promote international peace and dialogue. He was 75. Richardson […]
