The Texas House approved a raft of new voting restrictions Friday, as majority Republicans seeking to hold on to power in a rapidly changing state finally overcame months of delays by Democrats who said the measure will raise new barriers to the ballot…
Biden meets with new Israeli prime minister: ‘We’ve become close friends’
When Israel’s prime minister visited the White House on Thursday, for the first time in 12 years it was someone other than Benjamin Netanyahu.
Biden says health officials exploring whether to move up booster interval
President Joe Biden said Friday that his administration was looking into whether to shorten the window of the planned Covid-19 booster shot program, something he discussed with Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a visit at the White House.
January 6 committee seeks answers on misinformation from social media companies
The House Select Committee investigating the deadly January 6 Capitol riot sent letters to 15 social media companies, including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, seeking to understand how misinformation and efforts to overturn the election by both foreign…
Biden is warned ‘another terror attack in Kabul is likely’ as mission enters ‘most dangerous period’
President Joe Biden plans to contact the families of the 13 US service members who were killed in Thursday’s suicide attacks outside of Kabul’s international airport, according to a senior White House official.
Republicans split on strategy to make Biden pay a political price for Afghanistan
The GOP is divided over how hard — and how quickly — to go after President Joe Biden in the wake of Thursday’s deadly attack on US troops at the Kabul airport.
US shipping 2.2 million Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses to South Africa
The United States is shipping more than 2.2 million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to South Africa that are set to arrive on Saturday, according to a White House official.
Supreme Court throws out Biden administration eviction moratorium
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration’s Covid-related eviction moratorium.
Conservative-dominated bench denies Biden same deference it once gave Trump
The Supreme Court slapped down the Biden administration twice this week, giving the White House scant regard in a Tuesday dispute over asylum policy and late Thursday acidly rejecting its defense of an eviction moratorium tied to the surge in Covid-19 …