President Joe Biden has tapped former Delaware Gov. Jack Markell as the temporary point person who will oversee the administration’s Afghan evacuee resettlement effort in the United States, the White House announced Friday.
Biden pledges to support communities ravaged by Hurricane Ida: ‘I promise to have your backs until this gets done’
President Joe Biden is headed to Louisiana on Friday to survey damage from Hurricane Ida, after almost a week of the deadly storm ravaging the eastern half of the United States.
Fact check: Sen. Joni Ernst falsely claims Biden has ‘not once’ expressed gratitude to troops who fought in the last 20 years
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, a veteran of the war in Iraq and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, falsely claimed on CNN on Wednesday that President Joe Biden has never expressed gratitude or empathy toward the American troops who h…
Trump administration deliberately slowed entry of Afghan allies
Stephen Miller seemed floored by the idea, raised during a fall Cabinet meeting in 2018, of keeping open the doors for Afghan allies and other Middle East refugees to enter the US.
More kids hospitalized with Covid-19 in states with lower vaccination rates, CDC report finds
More children went to the hospital and emergency room in states with lower vaccination rates, according to a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Biden administration’s Sept. 20 booster rollout may be scaled back to just Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at first
There have been internal conversations within the Biden administration about scaling back the ambitious booster plan laid out by top federal health officials last month as the calendar nears September 20, the date when booster shots may start to be off…
‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley pleads guilty to felony in US Capitol riot
The so-called “QAnon Shaman” who stormed the US Capitol in a horned bearskin outfit pleaded guilty Friday to a felony for obstructing the Electoral College proceedings on January 6.
‘This is imaginary’: CNN fact-checks Kevin McCarthy’s Fox News interview claim
CNN’s Daniel Dale fact-checks a claim made by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy during a Fox News interview where he asserted thousands of Taliban fighters left Afghanistan and are trying to enter the US.
Colorado county election official allegedly pressured employees to not cooperate with investigation into security breach
County administrators in Colorado have opened an investigation into an election official after employees complained she was pressuring them not to cooperate with a joint local, state and federal criminal investigation into an election system security b…
Biden says Texas’ anti-abortion law is ‘almost un-American’ and ‘sort of creates a vigilante system’
President Joe Biden said Friday the Texas state law that bans abortion after as early as six weeks into pregnancy is “almost un-American,” pointing specifically to a provision allowing individuals to take civil action against people who help a woman ge…