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Senate GOP stage floor mutiny to protest Democrats’ plans to kill Mayorkas impeachment trial

Senate Republicans created procedural headaches Thursday for Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer to protest Democrats' plan not to hold a full impeachment trial for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Hakeem Jeffries rules out help from Democrats to salvage FISA bill

The House Democratic leader on Thursday said his troops won't come to House Speaker Mike Johnson's aid to salvage a bill to reauthorize the government's chief spying powers.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman visits Capitol Hill amid AI legislation stalling

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was in Washington on Thursday to discuss artificial intelligence policy on Capitol Hill, where efforts to write new laws to govern AI have slowed to a crawl.

Karine Jean-Pierre says White House is thinking of O.J. Simpson’s family

The White House on Thursday offered mild sympathy to the family of football hall of famer O.J. Simpson, who passed away of cancer earlier in the day.

Stubborn inflation puts drag on Biden’s reelection run

President Biden received a double whammy of bad economic news this week with two separate Labor Department reports showing America's prolonged battle with inflation is still ongoing and undercutting his reelection message.

Congress really wants the FBI to be able to spy on anyone

In its everlasting bid to betray the people who elected them, Congress is engaged in a bitter fight over whether or not the federal government can spy on people without a warrant. The object of this latest congressional feud is Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which, on paper, allows federal […]

Berkeley’s Palestinian crybullies don’t understand free speech

No one in America has a larger victim complex than Palestinian student activists at a liberal university, who think their egos take priority over the law. That includes the students at Vanderbilt University who think they are allowed to trespass and assault police officers because of their supposedly righteous cause. Vanderbilt ended up suspending and […]

House GOP ‘musical chairs’ underway on powerful spending committee

A shakeup is happening among the Republican spending cardinals on the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Republicans named Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), a prominent negotiator, as the new head of the committee, which is tasked with crafting the 12 annual government funding bills, after retiring Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) said she would step down from the...

Former Obama advisor: Kushner engaged in ‘level of corruption that we’ve just never seen’ with foreign relations

Former Obama Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said that President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner engaged in a “level of corruption that we’ve just never seen” when talking about his firm’s recent investments overseas. Rhodes said that Kushner engaged in corruption when asked about The New York Times’ recent reporting which detailed that 99 percent...

House panel tees up vote on revised FISA reauthorization

The House Rules Committee advanced a bill to reauthorize the U.S.’s warrantless surveillance authority late Thursday night, sending the measure to the floor one day after a band of Republicans blocked consideration of a previous version of the legislation. The panel voted 8-4 to adopt the rule — which governs debate on legislation — for a...

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