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‘Squad’ member under DOJ investigation is still paying her husband with campaign funds, filings show

Missouri Democratic Rep. Cori Bush has paid her husband $15,000 from her campaign this year amid a federal probe into her campaign spending on purported security expenses.

House Republicans excoriate Ilhan Omar suggesting Columbia University protests not ‘anti-Jewish’

House Republicans derided Columbia University President Dr. Nemat Shafik's testimony when first asked by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., that she had not seen any "anti-Jewish" protests.

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...

Baltic parliament leaders issue support for Johnson ahead of high-stakes Ukraine vote

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is receiving support from his Baltic counterparts for moving toward a vote to provide more U.S. assistance to Ukraine, following months of intense diplomacy by European officials pleading for continued American leadership on the world stage. In a letter sent Thursday, the three heads of the Baltic parliaments thanked Johnson for...

GOP impeachment efforts hit brick wall

Republican impeachment efforts against President Biden and his Cabinet appear to have hit a brick wall after the Senate swiftly dismissed articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Senators dismissed a pair of impeachment articles Wednesday after less than three hours of procedural bickering, closing out the House GOP’s yearlong effort to oust...

The Memo: Johnson set for a tough victory

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) looks set to successfully face down the hard-right members of his conference on a series of foreign aid bills — after a mighty fight. Johnson will need to lean on Democrats to pass the bills, which deal with aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and provide for some measures to help...

NPR reels from editor’s public rebuke, allegations of liberal bias  

NPR is reeling from an ugly and contentious internal fight after an editor offered a scathing public criticism of his newsroom, saying left-wing bias threatened to erode trust with its listeners. The editor, Uri Berliner, resigned just days after many of his furious colleagues expressed outrage that his public attacks on the outlet were not...

Trump meets with Orbán, Saudis, Cameron as they prepare for his return

Former President Trump is holding court with world leaders as foreign governments brace for the possibility of a second Trump administration, which would bring with it a major shift in U.S. foreign policy. Trump met Wednesday at Trump Tower with Polish President Andrzej Duda, following meetings in recent weeks with Hungarian President Viktor Orbán and...

Schumer has only hours left to avoid FISA warrantless surveillance shutdown

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has less than 24 hours to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) warrantless surveillance program before it expires at 11:59 p.m. Friday, and he has a tough path ahead to meet the deadline. Schumer needs to get around a coalition of Republican and Democratic senators who want to...

Pacific Northwest emerges as new Hispanic political hot spot

The Pacific Northwest is emerging as a staging ground for Latino political representation, as a trio of federal elected Latina officials from the region face their first reelection campaigns, with others potentially joining them in Congress. From 2011 to 2023, former Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) was the only federal elected Hispanic official from the...

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