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Protesters storm Kevin McCarthy’s office over HIV bill, get dragged out by cops

Protesters with Housing Works stormed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's office to demand he re-up funding for a global AIDs relief program called PEPFAR.

Internal emails show Biden admin officials coordinating on shielding Pete Buttigieg’s govt jet use

EXCLUSIVE: Senior federal government officials scrambled this year after they were asked to disclose Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's flight records, emails show.

Congressman says Maryland sheriff is too ‘anti-immigrant’ to work with ICE

A Maryland congressman is demanding that Homeland Security cancel its agreement that allows the Frederick County Sheriff's Office to enforce immigration laws, saying the government should punish the sheriff for stoking "hatred and fear of immigrants."

White House hammers House GOP over budget proposals as lawmakers return from recess

The White House on Tuesday went on offense against House Republicans, accusing them of breaking an agreement reached during debt ceiling negotiations and pushing budget cuts that would harm the economy and families. Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a memo that while the White House, House Democrats and...

GOP senator demands federal standard for AI content identification

GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska is unveiling a bill to make sure Americans can tell what online content is AI-generated.

The criminalization of dissent continues

When special counsel Jack Smith first indicted former President Donald Trump and six other defendants for conspiring to defraud the United States, we were concerned. We're no fans of Trump, but we warned that using conspiracy law in the political arena would lead to the criminalization of political dissent.

5 key demands House conservatives are making before taking partial government shutdown off table

House members are back from their August recess on Tuesday, and the countdown officially starts until Sept. 30 tracking whether lawmakers can reach an agreement to fund the government.

Joe Biden’s Vietnam

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ends President Biden’s Hanoi press conference.

U.S. moves to advance prisoner swap deal with Iran and release $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds

The Biden administration has cleared the way for the release of five American citizens detained in Iran by issuing a blanket waiver for international banks to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian money from South Korea to Qatar without fear of U.S. sanctions. In addition, as part of the deal, the administration has agreed to release five Iranian citizens held in the United States.

California lawmakers approve nation’s most sweeping emissions disclosure rules for big business

Major corporations from oil and gas companies to retail giants would have to disclose their direct greenhouse gas emissions as well as those that come from activities like employee business travel under legislation passed Monday by California lawmakers, the most sweeping mandate of its kind in the nation.

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