The Senate, in a rare bipartisan vote Tuesday night, advanced a bill that would impose harsher sanctions on Russia and buyers of Russian oil and gas than the U.S. has previously enforced and extend existing sanctions on Iran, aiming to economically squeeze the two countries amid ongoing military conflicts. The bill, named for its co-author,...
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence (DNI) in a 51-47 party-line vote, potentially reviving a stalled battle over renewing the nation’s warrantless spy powers. Clayton, currently a U.S. attorney who served as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the first Trump administration, does not have the broad foreign...
President Trump’s approval rating has hit its lowest mark in the poll conducted by The Economist/YouGov since he returned to office last year. In the poll, 34 percent of respondents said that they either “somewhat” or “strongly” back Trump’s job performance, while 62 percent said they either “strongly” or “somewhat” do not back his job...
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) warned Dr. Anthony Fauci that the presidential pardon he received does not extend to his awaited hearing at Capitol Hill. The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is set to testify before a Senate panel Wednesday, following Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) release of...
Iran fired multiple ballistic missiles at a U.S. base in the Middle East on Tuesday evening, in what U.S. Central Command (Centcom) called an attempted surprise attack. It was the first publicly disclosed attack on U.S. service members in the region since President Trump ordered a halt on attacks against Iran last week. The missiles,...
Former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci is set to be under the microscope for a tough Senate hearing on Wednesday, just days after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released more than 1,000 pages of Fauci's diary entries from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the weekend leading up to the hearing before the Senate...
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Energy eyes nuclear waste deal with five states The Trump administration is eyeing five states that could accept nuclear waste, disposal of which has been a longtime issue with nuclear power. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein The Energy Department said Tuesday that it signed memorandums of...
New York Times opinion journalist Ross Douthat is reportedly set to join CBS News and "60 Minutes" as a correspondent. Douthat, a columnist at the Times and one of the leading voices of its opinion section, is reportedly one of a handful of new journalists who will join CBS ahead of the new season of...
A new analysis released Tuesday shows corporate boardroom diversity among S&P 500 companies has dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade. The analysis from global advisory search firm Spencer Stuart found that diverse board appointments among S&P 500 companies have been on the decline since 2021 when it peaked at 72 percent....
A federal judge in Houston ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday to release a man who witnessed federal immigration officers fatally shooting Lorenzo Salgado Araujo earlier this month. U.S. District Judge Keith P. Ellison wrote that the continued detention of Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego constitutes an “unconstitutional deprivation” of his liberty. Ellison,...
Voters in Georgia's 13th Congressional District are at the polls Tuesday for a special election to fill late Rep. David Scott's (D) seat. Scott passed away in April at age 80, leaving the seat in the blue stronghold open for the first time since 2002. The late Georgia Democrat's daughter Marcye Scott is competing to...
Republican voters in South Dakota will once again head to the polls Tuesday to weigh in on a heated gubernatorial primary runoff. Gov. Larry Rhoden (R) is vying for a full term leading the Mount Rushmore State against Republican businessman Toby Doeden. Neither candidate secured over half of the vote in a June 2 primary to avoid runoff....
