Two top Trump Organization officials appeared before a Manhattan grand jury on Thursday in the latest sign that the criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s business is ongoing.
Manchin upends Democrats’ push to enact Biden’s agenda this month, calling for ‘pause’ on $3.5 trillion bill
Sen. Joe Manchin, the most pivotal Democratic swing vote in the Senate, threw a major wrench in his party’s carefully crafted plans to pass a massive $3.5 trillion bill by month’s end, demanding they take a “strategic pause” before considering a sweepi…
Analysis: John Roberts has lost control of the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court’s dramatic 5-4 action leaving a Texas abortion ban in place at midnight Wednesday establishes that the Roberts Court no longer is Roberts’ Court.
Congress could protect access to abortion. Here’s why that’s unlikely to happen.
Democrats are reeling over a strict Texas law that went into effect this week that bars abortions after six weeks, but divisions within their party in Washington — and broad Republican opposition to abortion rights — all but ensure Democrats won’t ha…
US Capitol riot defendant jailed after watching MyPillow CEO’s conspiracies online
The QAnon supporter who chased Officer Eugene Goodman near the Senate chamber during the US Capitol insurrection was sent back to jail Thursday, in part because he violated the rules of his release by going online to access conspiracy theories about th…
Biden says he’ll press Congress on infrastructure after wildfires and Ida wreak havoc on US: ‘The climate crisis is here’
President Joe Biden said Thursday he had spoken to the governors of New York and New Jersey after remnants of Hurricane Ida caused dangerous flash floods and tornadoes across the Northeast.
READ: Nancy Pelosi responds to SCOTUS ruling on Texas abortion law
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded on Thursday to the Supreme Court’s denial of a request from Texas abortion providers to freeze a state law that bars abortions after six weeks.
What a Texas law reveals America’s socio-political anxieties
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Biden launches federal effort to respond to Texas law as he faces pressure to protect abortion
A new Texas law that effectively bans most abortions prompted President Joe Biden on Wednesday to use a word he’d entirely avoided as president: “Abortion.”
‘Unprecedented is almost an understatement,’ Hochul says of New York flooding
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday called the massive flooding overnight in the state and New York City, caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, “one for the record books” and “absolutely stunning on a scale.”