The country is not ready for what’s coming next from the Supreme Court.
House lawmakers call on Biden administration to take steps to avert economic disaster in Afghanistan
A group of mostly Democratic House members is urging the Biden administration to take steps to avert a looming economic catastrophe in Afghanistan.
Analysis: Why we had to reconsider jobs, inflation and politics this week
It’s been a week of revisions and recalculations. We’ve had to change our understanding of why people are quitting their jobs and how long this stretch of everything getting more expensive will last.
DOJ asks Supreme Court to reinstate federal vaccine mandate for certain health care workers nationwide
The Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow a vaccine mandate aimed at federal health care workers to go into effect nationwide, marking the first time the justices have been asked to weigh in on a federal mandate the Biden a…
Analysis: Here’s why voting rights legislation isn’t going anywhere this year
With chances for passage of the Build Back Better Act dimming by the day, the Biden administration and prominent Democrats have made a quick pivot — insisting that now is the moment to pass voting rights protection through Congress.
Biden warns of winter of ‘severe illness and death’ for unvaccinated due to Omicron
President Joe Biden said on Thursday warned people who are not vaccinated against Covid-19 are looking at a very bleak and dangerous winter if they do not get their shots soon.
FDA says abortion pills can be sent by mail
With the Supreme Court poised to undo its abortion rights precedent, the Biden administration is considering a move that could mitigate the fallout from a Roe v. Wade reversal. And red states are already on the march to counteract whatever the federal …
January 6 committee subpoenas retired colonel who shared election fraud PowerPoint presentation
The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol announced Thursday that it subpoenaed James P. “Phil” Waldron, a retired Army colonel who spread misinformation about election fraud and circulated a PowerPoint document de…
Biden awards Medal of Honor to 3 soldiers, including the first African American since the Vietnam War
President Joe Biden will bestow the Medal of Honor, the most prestigious decoration in the US military, to three Army soldiers on Thursday afternoon.
Manchin moves to strike offshore drilling ban from Senate bill
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee — chaired by Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia — has struck a House-passed provision in the Build Back Better Act to ban all future off-shore drilling off the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf Coasts, a sour…