House Speaker Mike Johnson told lawmakers in a "dear colleague" letter that he would bring a bill to the floor that reauthorizes the government's most powerful spying tool, pushing them to get behind the bill that overhauls the law but does not rein in warrantless surveillance of electronic communication abroad that sometimes snares Americans.
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday he thinks Iran will retaliate for a recent airstrike by Israel on an Iranian Embassy compound in Syria, but on a limited scale. “They are going to act,” Esper said on CNN’s “The Source” with anchor Kaitlan Collins. “They’re gonna feel the need to uphold their dignity, to...
More than 400 lawmakers, civil rights leaders, musicians and actors have sent a letter to President Biden urging him to support a list of Congressional bills on racial equity and reparative justice. The letter, led by UCLA professor of sociology and African American studies Marcus Anthony Hunter, who coined the phrase Black Lives Matter, calls for...
The body of a missing construction worker who was on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore when it collapsed last week has been found, according to authorities. The Unified Command, a group that includes the U.S. Coast Guard and Maryland state agencies, said in a press release that the body of Maynor Yasir Suazo-Sandoval,...
An appeals court granted the Department of Justice (DOJ) authority to reopen an antitrust probe into the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Friday. In a 2-1 decision, a District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals panel of judges reversed a lower court decision to “set aside” a 2021 investigative subpoena from the Antitrust Division of...
A fire was reported Friday outside the third-floor office of independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in Burlington, Vermont. Moderate fire damage was reported, but no injuries were reported.