First 7 jurors picked as Trump's hush money trial wraps on day 2: Recap
Former President Trump is back in a Manhattan courtroom Tuesday for the continuation of jury selection in his criminal hush money trial. The process is expected to last a minimum of several days as...
View ArticleSchumer: Mayorkas impeachment 'awful precedent,''abuse of process'
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday accused House Republicans of impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over “policy disagreements,” warning that it sets an...
View ArticleBiden-Trump cash race heats up: 5 takeaways from latest fundraising
Candidates for various offices have submitted their fundraising totals for the first three months of the year with the 2024 election season in full steam. Groups supporting both President Biden and...
View ArticleMayorkas impeachment sparks partisan Senate battle
The House impeachment managers on Tuesday formally delivered two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, setting up a battle on the Senate floor over whether to...
View ArticleTrump looks to weed out jurors over political social media posts
Lawyers for former President Trump are using social media posts made by prospective jurors and their spouses to attempt to excuse them from the jury pool in his hush money trial. The lawyers played...
View ArticleColumbia seeks to avoid the Harvard trap at antisemitism hearing
Columbia University is in the hot seat as House Republicans are ready to question four of its top officials on Wednesday for a hearing regarding antisemitism on campus. Columbia President Nemat...
View ArticleBecerra says rural health would improve if states expand Medicaid
Rural health outcomes would improve if more states expanded Medicaid, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra told a Senate panel Tuesday. During a hearing on the administration's...
View ArticleHouse approves resolution condemning Palestinian rallying cry as antisemitic
The House on Tuesday adopted a resolution condemning as antisemitic the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a Palestinian rallying cry. The chamber voted 377-44-1 on the...
View ArticleHere are the first 7 jurors picked to serve on Trump’s hush money trial
NEW YORK — Seven New Yorkers have so far been picked to serve as jurors on former President Trump’s hush money trial, the first criminal case of any U.S. president in history. The judge, along with...
View ArticleSenate Democrats open to Speaker Johnson's foreign aid plan, but land mines loom
Senate Democrats say they’re open to the possibility of backing the foreign aid proposal emerging from the House, even as they raise concerns about potential land mines in Speaker Mike Johnson’s...
View ArticleDemocrats retake control of Michigan Statehouse after special election wins
Democratic candidates Peter Herzberg and Mai Xiong are projected to win their special elections in two Michigan state House races, allowing the party to regain full control of the state Legislature,...
View ArticleSchumer says he will move to dismiss Mayorkas impeachment
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Wednesday he will offer a motion to dismiss the two House-passed articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas,...
View ArticleSpeaker Johnson rolls out text for foreign aid package despite conservative...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) released the legislative text Wednesday for three bills that would combine military assistance to Ukraine, Israel and allies in the Indo-Pacific with humanitarian aid for...
View ArticleSenate dismisses Mayorkas impeachment without trial
The Senate voted Wednesday to dismiss two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, shutting down the possibility of a lengthy Senate trial, which Republicans had...
View ArticleArizona Republicans again block attempt to repeal 1864 abortion ban
Arizona House Republicans blocked an attempt Wednesday to repeal the state’s 1864 near-total abortion ban, the second time in as many weeks Democrats were unable to get a vote on their repeal bill....
View ArticleHouse passes bill requiring warrant to purchase data from third parties
The House on Wednesday approved a bill that would limit how the government can purchase data from third parties — legislation that scored a vote after negotiations with a group of GOP colleagues who...
View ArticleSenate votes to effectively dismiss first Mayorkas charge
The Senate voted along party lines Wednesday to sustain a point-of-order objection raised by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), effectively dismissing the first article of impeachment...
View ArticleGOP effort to make Mayorkas face of border runs into Senate dead-end
The dismissal of impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas caps a nearly two-year campaign to boot the official from his job – ending the legislative play to make him...
View ArticleHouse GOP unveils border bill as conservatives slam foreign aid measures
House GOP leaders on Wednesday introduced a new border security bill designed to appease conservatives who are up in arms that Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) foreign aid package excluded tougher...
View ArticleGOP unveils national security bill as last piece of Ukraine aid package
House GOP leaders unveiled a catchall package of Republican national security priorities Wednesday designed to sweeten a massive round of new funding for Ukraine and other foreign allies in the face...
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