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.”
White House seeks to reassure Dems anxious over inflation concerns in Biden’s agenda
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…
These are the 19 Republicans who voted for it
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 electr…
Judge asks why DOJ isn’t seeking more money from US Capitol rioters
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, whil…
Fact-checking claims that migrants on the Southern border are to blame for Covid surge
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 …
California Gov. Newsom faces a wall of apathy as Republicans mobilize recall voters
“Recall? What recall?”
This may be the Democrats’ last chance to recover working-class Whites
The blue-collar barricade looms as the most stubborn obstacle to President Joe Biden enlarging his base of support.
Kids are the victims of new GOP bid to politicize the pandemic
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.
Widow of police officer who died by suicide after Capitol riot presses Biden for line of duty benefits
As President Joe Biden welcomed the families of police officers who had defended the US Capitol on January 6 to the Rose Garden last week, a legal battle was pending before the Police and Firefighters’ Retirement and Relief Board in Washington on behal…
Judge signs order temporarily blocking arrest of quorum-busting Texas Democrats
Texas Democrats who left the state last month in an attempt to stop the passage of restrictive voting bills can now return home to continue their protest without fear of being arrested, after a judge on Monday issued a temporary restraining order.