The House select committee on the Capitol insurrection has a duty far beyond investigating one of the most traumatic days in US history. Its wider mission is to expose and catalog an assault on democracy that is still going on.
Every gas station is essentially the same -- the nozzle fits every vehicle, the pump takes common credit cards and the price is posted on a big sign. The Biden administration wants to make electric vehicle charging stations a lot more like that.
A House committee hearing on Wednesday provided a high-profile platform for an 11-year-old survivor of the Uvalde elementary school shooting and others affected by gun violence to tell their harrowing stories to the American public.
The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill insurrection holds its first prime-time public hearing on Thursday and is expected to give an overview of their findings from the past year.
You'll read a lot about how the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in has dovetailed with public hearings by the House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection that kick off Thursday. There is plenty to compare in two presidents accused of influencing elections nearly a half century apart.
The successful recall of progressive San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin on Tuesday is arguably the political earthquake of the year so far. It showed that not even in a Democratic bastion is a progressive safe from the wrath of voters worried about crime.
Former Donald Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, who is being prosecuted for contempt of Congress, told a federal judge on Wednesday that he is "at a severe disadvantage" because he has no lawyer five days after his arrest.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN that the immigration challenges facing the Biden administration along the southern border are "beyond anything that anyone has seen before," and that the issue will be a key focus of a summit of regional leaders taking place this week in Los Angeles.
The House voted Wednesday 223-204 to pass a wide-ranging package of gun control legislation called the "Protecting Our Kids Act," after lawmakers faced intense pressure to act in the wake of recent mass shootings.
President Joe Biden arrived here Wednesday to play host to nearly two dozen leaders from Latin America, hoping to use new economic and migration announcements to demonstrate cohesion in a region of fractured politics and, at times, entrenched skepticism of the United States.
A recount shows that Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon endorsed by former President Donald Trump, defeated Dave McCormick by 951 votes in Pennsylvania's Senate GOP primary, according to the commonwealth's acting secretary of state.
Voters in two of the most liberal cities in America sent a clear message to the Democratic Party on Tuesday: they want their leaders to refocus on the most basic functions of government by ensuring their safety, protecting their quality of life and restoring order.
Blake Masters, the Republican Senate candidate from Arizona, met with conservative activists at a Phoenix IHOP this spring and was asked whether he would support investigating US intelligence operations to uncover the federal government's "nefarious activities."
A bipartisan Senate-passed bill that would expand security protection to the immediate family members of Supreme Court justices has stalled in the House, raising questions from senators on why it hasn't passed in the wake of an arrest outside the home of a Supreme Court justice.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday said the results of the previous day's primary elections reflected a desire from the American public to take a harder stance on crime and gun violence and called on states and localities to spend funds allocated from the Covid-19 relief bill to bolster police departments.
With public hearings kicking off this week, the House select committee investigating January 6 is zeroing in on former President Donald Trump, and is preparing to use its platform to argue that he was responsible for grave abuses of power that nearly upended US democracy.
Seven states -- including the population behemoth California -- held primaries on Tuesday. In the most-watched race of the night for Los Angeles mayor, billionaire businessman Rick Caruso ran ahead of Democratic Rep. Karen Bass as both will advance to the November general election.
Survivors and others affected by the recent shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde will testify before the House Oversight Committee today. Follow here for the latest.
The Supreme Court said Wednesday that a Border Patrol agent in Washington state cannot be personally sued in federal court for damages after a private citizen brought claims of illegal retaliation and excessive force.
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