The Senate on Wednesday passed a GOP-led resolution that would end the COVID-19 national emergency that has been in place since 2020. The measure passed the upper chamber 68-23. A similar resolution sponsored by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) passed the Senate last year, but it did not advance in the Democrat-controlled House. This year it...
Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova is set to throw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals home opener of the 2023 MLB season. In a news release published Wednesday, Markarova, who was appointed to her current position in 2021, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch before the Nationals’ Opening Day games...
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) got in a heated shouting match about gun control as lawmakers left House votes on Wednesday evening. The exchange came in the wake of a shooter killing three nine-year-olds and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tenn. on Monday. Bowman, a former middle...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, got into a heated back-and-forth with Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) on Wednesday over Sanders’s net worth as the panel questioned Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. “I take offense to the chairman pointing out that all CEOs are corrupt because they're millionaires....
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ken.) blocked a move Wednesday by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) to pass his bill that would ban the embattled social media platform TikTok in the U.S., saying the legislation violated First Amendment rights. “The company has bent over backwards to work with our government,” Paul said on the Senate floor. “I will...
Two Republican congressmen sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding that the DOJ open a hate crime investigation into the Nashville private Christian School shooting.
GOP Ohio state Rep. Susan Manchester pulled a discharge position that, if successful, would allow a proposal to make amending the state constitution harder to bypass via normal processes.
The Minneapolis City Council will hold a special meeting to discuss a potential settlement in a suit by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights over George Floyd's police-involved death.