The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has condemned recent comments made by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), in which she accused Democrats of worshiping George Floyd, the 46-year-old Black man who was murdered by a white Minneapolis police officer in 2020. Speaking to a crowd of reporters after Monday’s House subcommittee hearing on the origins of...
Attorneys for former President Trump have asked the judge overseeing his hush money criminal case to lift a gag order imposed on his speech now that the trial is over. Judge Juan Merchan earlier this year barred Trump from publicly attacking witnesses, jurors, court staff and prosecutors. The order was later expanded to include the...
Arizonans will vote on a statewide ballot measure in November to determine whether state police should have authority to arrest people who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, the state legislature decided Tuesday. The GOP-backed ballot measure is intended to supersede a veto on a similar bill by Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) in March. The state...
Some Gen Zers interested in becoming nurses are being turned off from the profession due to social media, according to a new report from nursing marketplace platform ShiftKey. As part of the report, ShiftKey surveyed 1,000 18- to 26-year-olds who currently work as nurses or considered becoming nurses in the past. Gen Zers who...
Attorney General Merrick Garland struck a more forceful tone with the House Judiciary Committee, challenging Republican rhetoric he at different turns called “false” and “dangerous.” That pushback from the mild-mannered attorney general came as Republican interest has piqued into investigations into former President Trump, particularly those led by district attorneys. Garland was also battered over his...
President Biden will deliver opening remarks Tuesday evening at this year’s White House congressional picnic. The tradition brings the members of the executive and legislative branches and their families together for an atmosphere of celebration across party lines. This is the third time hosting the informal get-together on the South Lawn for the president and...
The chairs of a congressional working group on nuclear arms announced Tuesday a late July hearing on the controversial Sentinel missile program, which has blown past its budget and triggered concerns among more progressive lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Members of the Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, co-chaired by Democrats Sen. Ed Markey (Mass.)...
North Carolina Rep. Dan Bishop (R) compared former President Trump’s current legal situation to that of a Black person in the segregated South. “It’s as bad as it was in Alabama in 1950 … if a person happened to be Black, in order to get justice,” Bishop said Monday on “The Pete Kaliner Show” on...
The House on Tuesday approved legislation aimed at penalizing the International Criminal Court (ICC) as it weighs whether to bring war crimes charges against Israeli leaders for their conduct in the war with Hamas. The tally was 247-155, with every Republican voting in favor of the proposal. They were joined by 42 pro-Israel Democrats with a history...
President Biden said Tuesday that he does not think Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "playing politics" with his handling of the war in Gaza. “I don’t think so. He’s trying to work out a serious problem he has," Biden said when asked after remarks on the border whether Netanyahu was "playing politics with the...
