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Caroline Purser/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With the clock ticking for lawmakers to reach a debt ceiling deal or risk an unprecedented default, several emergency scenarios and short-term fixes are being debated. A White House meeting between President Joe Biden and congressional leaders on Tuesday, which was the first major discussion between the parties in months, […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. George Santos co-sponsored a bill to crack down on a crime he is accused of. The House voted on H.R. 1163, known as the “Protecting Taxpayers and Victims of Unemployment Fraud Act,” on Thursday. The bill, which passed by a vote of 230-200, would provide incentives to help states recover […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Embattled Congressman George Santos, R-N.Y., was indicted on 13 criminal counts, including seven counts of wire fraud Wednesday and has defied calls to resign from office. Federal prosecutors have accused him of defrauding donors and illegally receiving unemployment benefits during the pandemic. Defense attorney and former Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Jeremy Saland […]
CNN (MERRIMACK, N.H.) — As New Hampshire Republican voters cheered on former President Donald Trump at CNN’s town hall Wednesday night, there was one questioner who stood out. Julie Miles, a registered nurse for more than 20 years, living in Merrimack, New Hampshire, wanted to know how Trump felt about abortion rights after the Supreme Court […]
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (GOFFSTOWN, N.H.) — Former President Donald Trump’s town hall on CNN Wednesday featured no shortage of theatrics, from calling moderator Kaitlin Collins “nasty” to sparking laughs from a supportive audience with a jab against E. Jean Carroll, the author who accused him of rape and won a civil case […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House voted to pass a sweeping border security and immigration bill on Thursday evening, just hours before the Trump-era immigration order– Title 42– expires at midnight. The sweeping border security and immigration bill passed by a vote of 219-213. Two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and John Duarte of […]
Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With the end of the last major Trump-era Title 42 border restrictions Thursday, the Biden administration will revert to processing all migrants as was done before the pandemic. Authorities will now rely more heavily on immigration law as defined under Title 8 of the U.S. Code. The law outlines processes […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to California’s Proposition 12, a statewide ban on the sale of pork from pigs housed in cages or crowded group pens that prevent them from turning around freely. The ruling, which animal welfare advocates hailed as a “watershed moment,” could have a […]
Eric Yang/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking drastic measures to limit pollutants coming from industries that cause the most environmental harm in an effort to bring the country closer to its climate goals. The EPA plans to announce Thursday new regulation to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power […]
JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump sat down for a prime-time town hall on CNN on Wednesday, a day after he was found liable for battery and defamation in the E. Jean Carroll civil case. A New York jury awarded Carroll a total of $5 million in the lawsuit, […]
