President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he respects New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision to resign after the President called on Cuomo to step down last week following an official report that said Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women.
There are active discussions about a further drawdown of the US embassy in Kabul among State Department officials, according to two sources familiar with the discussions, as the Taliban continues to gain ground in Afghanistan.
The Trump White House is facing increased scrutiny on Capitol Hill as a powerful committee chairman wants to interview then-President Donald Trump's former chief of staff to determine the extent of the pressure the Justice Department faced to try to overturn Joe Biden's victory.
America is being forced yet again to learn the same, repetitive lesson of the pandemic: Fighting a raging, evolving virus with cynicism-laced politics rather than medical data only leads to the same result -- a prolonged national nightmare.
The National Security Agency's inspector general on Tuesday announced that it is reviewing "recent allegations that the NSA improperly targeted the communications of a member of the US news media."
A top economic aide to President Joe Biden moved to reassure moderate Democratic moderates that the new $3.5 trillion budget bill would not fuel long-term inflation as they begin pivoting toward the next obstacle to the administration's economic agenda.
The US Senate passed a historic, sweeping $1.2 trillion bipartisan package on Tuesday by a bipartisan majority vote of 69-30 to shore up the nation's crumbling infrastructure with funding for priorities like roads, bridges, rail, transit and the electric grid.
During a plea hearing on Monday, the chief judge in DC's federal court questioned the Justice Department's approach to have US Capitol rioters pay the government small portions of the $1.5 million in damage done to the Capitol building by the mob, while the total cost of the riot to American taxpayers amounts to 300 times more.
While Covid-19 continues to spike across the country and in southern states with lower vaccination rates, Republicans have tried pinning blame for the rise in cases, hospitalizations and deaths on illegal immigration and President Joe Biden's policies at the southern border.
The Biden administration won't be turning over former President Donald Trump's tax returns to the House until at least November, despite the recent dramatic Justice Department opinion that the IRS "must" hand them over.
Time's Up board co-chair Roberta Kaplan resigned from her position at the women's rights organization after it came to light that she reviewed a draft of a letter questioning the character of one of New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's accusers, Lindsey Boylan.
