The Biden administration is spending at least $62 million a week to care for unaccompanied migrant children in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to government data.Over the last month, HHS announced or opened at…
Federal prosecutors have arrested and charged Seth Aaron Pendley of Wichita Falls, Texas, with trying to blow up an Amazon data center.Court filings for the 28-year-old were not immediately available, but a criminal complaint distributed by a Department of Justice…
A Pennsylvania man accused of bear-spraying US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died after the January 6 riot, is in talks with the Justice Department for a possible deal to be released from jail as he awaits trial, according…
Reports received by the state of Texas about the care of unaccompanied migrant children housed in a San Antonio facility and released Friday by Gov. Greg Abbott did not allege children were being abused, as the governor has previously said.The…
In his first days in office, President Joe Biden proposed expanding the number of refugees who could be admitted to the United States after years of historic lows, but more than two months later that increase remains unsigned despite Biden's…
President Joe Biden's border coordinator is stepping down at the end of the month, the White House announced Friday -- an unusual time given the administration is dealing with record numbers of unaccompanied migrant children at the US southern border.Roberta…
The House Ethics Committee said Friday it was opening an investigation into the allegations surrounding embattled Rep. Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican facing a federal investigation into whether he violated sex trafficking laws.The top Democrat and Republican on the Ethics…
Texas Republican Party chairman Allen West falsely suggested that Texas could secede from the United States and become an independent country, a CNN KFile review of his comments in recent months shows.In radio interviews after the 2020 presidential election, West…
The Justice Department has been making public what they've learned about the Oath Keepers paramilitary organization -- which had at least a dozen of its affiliates amid the Capitol riot -- and this week revealed new details about the group's…
The Biden administration will not shut down the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline while an environmental review is conducted, a blow to the environmental and tribal groups that have rallied against the project for years.Government attorney Ben Schifman told a federal…
In the wake of another series of mass shootings around the US, President Joe Biden announced several gun-control focused executive actions on Thursday.The actions include expanding background checks for certain types of guns, regulating stabilizing braces built for pistols, making…
A 36-member commission the White House established to study the US Supreme Court will not make final recommendations for reform, according to details released Friday, a possible letdown for liberals hoping for President Joe Biden to push for more justices…
The Senate Leadership Fund will support Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski in her reelection campaign, setting up a clash between the Mitch McConnell-aligned group and GOP candidate Kelly Tshibaka, who has hired some advisers to former President Donald Trump.Trump plans to…
Devin Murphy, the legislative director for Rep. Matt Gaetz, has resigned his post, making him the second staffer to leave the Florida congressman's office as the pressure continues to mount surrounding a federal investigation into sex trafficking allegations.A source directly…
The POW/MIA flag was once again flying atop the White House Friday morning after it was moved to another location on the White House grounds in the final months of the Trump administration.A White House official said the flag went…
Supreme Court justices will close out their oral arguments for the current session as they began, in teleconference sessions with justices and lawyers participating remotely, the court announced on Friday.The public information office said the argument sessions scheduled for later…
A new Senate complaint filed by an outside group against Sen. Marsha Blackburn for flashing her congressional pin to a US Capitol Police officer is citing the conduct of former Sen. Larry Craig to argue that the Tennessee Republican should…
President Joe Biden asked Congress for $769 billion in federal outlays on discretionary, non-defense programs in his first formal spending request Friday -- a 16% increase from former President Donald Trump's last budget.The funding request for fiscal year 2022 comes…
A former Trump administration appointee privately boasted last year about influencing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's scientific reports about Covid-19 and attacked the agency's guidance while advocating for a herd immunity strategy, according to a House select committee investigating…
It isn't every day that Republican Rep. Sam Graves picks up his cell phone and hears from a Cabinet secretary -- let alone a Democrat.But the conservative Missouri congressman who serves as ranking member of the House Committee on Transportation…
