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Federal judge blocks DOJ access to NJ voter rolls amid statewide controversy

District Judge Zahid Quraishi blocked the Justice Department from accessing New Jersey's unredacted voter registration list, citing privacy concerns.

War powers resolution fails as Senate Republicans stand by Trump on Iran

Senate Republicans blocked another war powers resolution as munitions dwindle and Sen. Bill Cassidy draws a hard line on ground troops in Iran.

Florida AG threatens Fauci investigation after Senate hearing

James Uthmeier says his office is launching a Florida investigation into Anthony Fauci after the former NIAID director invoked the Fifth Amendment.

Online fury erupts as conservatives recall ’insane’ COVID-19 lockdown policies after Fauci takes the Fifth

Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth 111 times at a Senate hearing as conservatives resurfaced viral videos of COVID lockdown arrests and mask mandates.

Kamala Harris’ new $8M mansion is in a neighborhood with virtually no Black residents

Kamala Harris' $8 million Malibu mansion sits in a census tract that is 94% White and 0.2% Black, despite her career fighting racial bias in housing.

Trump’s EEOC has cut out demographic data and abandoned its core mission

We will not end the evils of racism and sexism by pretending they primarily victimize white men today. 

The Gavel: An attempt to take down super PACs 

If Larry Lessig gets his way on Wednesday, it will mark the beginning of the end of super PACs. The Harvard Law School professor and onetime presidential hopeful wants a Maine ballot measure he championed to spur a watershed moment for the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision. This morning, the battle heads to an appeals panel for oral arguments. The next step could be the high court. ...

Watch live: Fauci faces Senate heat on COVID, released diary entries

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former chief White House medical adviser, will testify Wednesday morning before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on gain of function research, bringing the debate about the origins of the COVID pandemic back into the spotlight. The hearing comes just days after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who chairs the committee, released more...

Live updates: Fauci to face Senate grilling on COVID origins, his diaries

Dr. Anthony Fauci, a face of the government's pandemic response, will sit Wednesday morning before a critical Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and the Senate Homeland Security panel to face questions on COVID-19. The former chief White House medical adviser and longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will appear days after...

Trump calls on Senate Republicans to adopt budget resolution before recess

President Trump late Tuesday renewed his call on Senate Republicans to adopt a House-passed budget resolution before the upcoming recess that would pave the way for passing a $95 billion emergency funding package with a simple-majority vote in September. The package would include $73 billion to help fund the Iran war effort, $12 billion for...

Congress can’t seem to figure out that sports gambling is just sports gambling

Every parent should worry that Washington seemingly cannot tell the difference between trading and obvious sports gambling.

Fauci hearing thrusts COVID fights back into spotlight

In today's issue: ▪ COVID-19 tensions in Senate spotlight ▪ Iran launches ‘surprise attack’ ▪ Graham sanctions bill advances ▪ ICE targeting Haitian, Syrian migrants The COVID-19 pandemic will return to center stage Wednesday as the man whose briefings dominated daily life for more than a year testifies before Congress. Former White House chief medical adviser Anthony...

Collins says State Department will reinstate funding for global humanitarian vaccine alliance

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Tuesday that the State Department is set to reinstate funding for a global humanitarian vaccine program after the Trump administration previously paused the program. “It is welcome news that following our recent outreach, the State Department has committed to contributing the full $600 million for GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance,” Collins...

Ex-Trump health official shocked by Fauci’s ‘unabashed narcissism’ from diaries

A former Trump health official on Tuesday slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci over his recently-released journal entries. “I'd like to see honesty and transparency and I'd like Tony to come clean with all the things that he's really been caught in contradictions,” Dr. Brett Giroir, a former assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health...

South Dakota governor fends off challenger in primary runoff 

Gov. Larry Rhoden (R) is projected to defeat businessman Toby Doeden in Tuesday's GOP primary runoff for South Dakota governor, according to Decision Desk HQ. Rhoden will now take on Democrat Dan Ahlers, a former state senator, in November. He is expected to hang on to the seat given the state’s reliably Republican leanings. Rhoden and...

Special election for Scott’s House seat in Georgia heads to runoff

The special election to fill the remainder of the late Rep. David Scott’s (D-Ga.) term in the House is headed to a runoff, according to Decision Desk HQ. None of the five candidates jostling for the vacant seat scored more than 50 percent of the vote, pushing the top two finishers, Scott's daughter Marcye Scott and Gwinnett...

Zelensky asks senators for air defenses, tells them Ukraine is winning war 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with senators in the Capitol on Tuesday to press his case for additional U.S. support for Ukraine, specifically anti-ballistic missiles, and to emphasize his country's gains in the war against Russia. The meeting occurred shortly before senators voted to advance legislation further sanctioning Russia and imposing steep tariffs on countries...

Senate advances Graham bill to put harsher sanctions on Russia, Iran

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,...

Senate confirms Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence

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...

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