Bipartisan talks on overhauling America's policing practices are hung up on a key issue: Whether Congress should include new standards for when officers can be charged with crimes.The issue has dogged the two sides for weeks -- and it's far…
The Senate unanimously passed a resolution on Tuesday establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a US holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.The legislation has gained momentum since the massive Black Lives Matter protests sparked…
US Capitol Police, Washington Metropolitan Police and local officials requested support from the DC National Guard 12 times on January 6 while the Capitol was under attack, the House Oversight Committee Democrats said Tuesday.RELATED: Meet the internet sleuths tracking down…
Senate Democratic leaders, facing skepticism from liberals about the direction of bipartisan infrastructure talks, plan to formally begin a process that would allow them to pass President Joe Biden's signature policy agenda along straight party lines.The move is meant to…
The Biden administration is expanding eligibility for the Central American Minors program, which affords certain at-risk children in the region the opportunity to apply to resettle in the US, the Departments of State and Homeland Security announced Tuesday.This expansion is…
In what may be the first lawsuit aimed at stopping GOP-led states from terminating pandemic unemployment benefits early, jobless workers in Indiana are challenging Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb's decision to cease the payments -- including the $300 weekly federal boost…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Tuesday it was her decision to visit the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, adding that "this was just something that I had thought about over time.""That was my decision," Greene told CNN, saying also…
President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced his nominees to serve as ambassadors to Israel, Mexico, NATO and several other posts, including Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III to represent the United States on an international civil aviation safety board.On the eve…
Republican Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah made a false claim about his voting record in an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo on Monday night, wrongly saying that he had voted to remove Georgia's Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from House committees.Stewart…
The White House will host a celebration for thousands of essential workers and military families on July Fourth on the South Lawn to mark America's "independence from the virus," according to a White House official.The celebration, which will be the…
A private Proud Boys audio chat that was made public Tuesday shows how the right-wing group fell into dysfunction and finger-pointing as its members got arrested after the US Capitol riot.Defense attorneys for Ethan Nordean, a leader of the Proud…
Donald Trump has scheduled the first stop on his long-promised revenge tour against Republicans who spurned him during his quest to overturn the 2020 election outcome and subsequent impeachment.According to a person familiar with the planning, the former President will…
When US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin gather for their highly anticipated summit in Geneva on Wednesday, it will come at a time that both leaders say is a low point for relations between their two countries.…
A previously secret trove of emails released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee sheds new light on how former President Donald Trump pressured the Justice Department on multiple fronts to do his bidding in his quest to overturn the 2020…
A growing number of GOP Senate contenders are spurning former President Donald Trump's wishes with campaigns that defy his criticism or ignore his support of a rival, as the Republican Party debates his role in its future.In Alabama, Trump's early…
Lawyers for Donald Trump and the House Oversight Committee revealed on Tuesday that they're at a standstill in the Democrats' long-running pursuit of tax records from Trump's accounting firm Mazars USA."This has dragged on forever," the House's general counsel Douglas…
All K-12 public schools in Florida will hold a moment of silence at the start of the day starting next school year, according to a bill signed into law Monday by Gov. Ron DeSantis.According to the law, which was HB…
Federal government investigators said Tuesday that they are launching a review into how the National Institutes of Health manages and monitors its grant program, which likely includes money connected to a Wuhan lab that GOP lawmakers have been scrutinizing. Republicans…
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday announced a new strategy to combat domestic terrorism after the Biden administration completed a sweeping assessment of the threat posed by domestic violent extremism following the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.Garland tied…
Nearly two dozen Democratic members of the Texas state Legislature are taking their voting rights fight from Austin to Washington this week.The trip is a "Hail Mary" effort of sorts, to apply some Texas-sized pressure on US lawmakers to support…
