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MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will roll out the red carpet Thursday for Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India for the third state visit of his presidency. The visit will put on full display the “deep and close partnership” between the U.S. and India, the White House said, despite concerns […]
Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Tuesday night in what his campaign billed as a major foreign policy address for the long shot Democratic presidential candidate. He told the crowd that he believes the U.S. government bears some responsibility for Russia’s invasion of […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision later this month on a case that would decide the future of race-based affirmative action in high education across the country. The nation’s highest court heard two major cases in October 2022 on affirmative action, one on race-conscious admissions policies at […]
U.S. House of Representatives (WASHINGTON) — In a a rare move, the House passed a censure resolution along party lines on Wednesday night against Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. — punishing one of the chamber’s own members and inflaming rhetoric on both sides of the aisle. The vote was 213-209, with Republicans voting yes, Democrats voting no […]
Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As Secretary of State Antony Blinken departed Beijing on Monday, he declared that his visit had successfully infused some stability into the often-turbulent relationship between the U.S. and China. Less that 48 hours later, President Joe Biden himself posed the first real test of that […]
Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has told his members to vote against the resolution brought forward by Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., that would impeach President Joe Biden when it comes to the floor later this week. “I just think running something on the floor isn’t fair to the American public without […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — News that President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, has agreed to a plea deal regarding a pair of tax-related misdemeanors follows a five-year Justice Department probe into the younger Biden’s finances and comes as a GOP-led congressional panel investigates what House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says are the Biden family’s […]
Andre Pain/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security John Tien is retiring from the Department, he announced in an internal message to department staff on Tuesday. Tien, an Army veteran who served three tours of duty, including in Operation Desert Storm, is leaving the Department on July 20, according to […]
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans, who have made one of their top priorities this session probing Hunter Biden and the Biden family’s business dealings, still say they plan to continue their investigations despite Hunter Biden’s plea deal with prosecutors. “This does nothing to our investigation,” Speaker Kevin McCarthy said outside […]
Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An “Abolition Amendment” was introduced in Congress last week that would eliminate the so-called slavery loophole in the U.S. Constitution. Ratified in 1865, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States, “except as punishment for crime.” That exception is what three Democratic members of Congress […]
