Malaysia's Ministry of Transport said Sunday a Texas-based company could revive its search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 (MH370), as the 10th anniversary of its mysterious disappearance approaches this week. Ocean Infinity has proposed another "no find, no fee" search of the seabeds in the southern Indian Ocean, five years after the company ended its...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) hailed a package of six government funding bills on Sunday as “good news” that prevents a government shutdown “without cuts or poison pill riders.” Schumer and congressional leaders unveiled the long-awaited package Sunday afternoon, with hopes to get the set passed before a March 8 partial government shutdown deadline....
Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) didn’t waste any time after the Alabama Supreme Court threatened to upend the political cycle by ruling that frozen embryos are people. Reproductive rights issues had given Democrats a big leg up in 2022 while Republicans struggled to communicate cohesively in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s...
Vice President Harris pressured the Israeli government to increase humanitarian aid to Gaza on Sunday, calling the situation in the war-torn region a “humanitarian catastrophe.” “What we are seeing every day in Gaza is devastating,” Harris said in a Selma, Ala., speech on Sunday. “We have seen reports of families eating leaves or animal food....
Vice President Harris, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) were among the procession that marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., this weekend in remembrance of Bloody Sunday, when police attacked hundreds of civil rights protesters in 1965. In a speech early Sunday, Garland warned that the same voting rights...
MSNBC’s Jen Psaki slammed Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s (Ky.) “real legacy” as that of a “cynic focused on power.” Psaki discussed McConnell’s announcement last week that he would be stepping down from his leadership role in the Senate Republican Conference next November. She said on “Inside with Jen Psaki” that his latest news is the “perfect...
The United States should also lead initiatives that encourage international cooperation from ally and regional countries, institutions, and organizations, including support for independent media active in Afghanistan to fill current information vacuums.
A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments Monday on the Biden administration's appeal of a case that threatens the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) promise of free preventive care to more than 150 million people. A federal judge in Texas last year ruled that the law's mandate requiring employers and insurers to cover...
Congressional leaders on Sunday finally revealed long-awaited bipartisan bills to fund parts of the government for most of the year, setting off a bicameral sprint to avert looming shutdown threat in less than a week. The weekend rollout entails six full-year spending bills to fund a slew of agencies until early fall, including the departments...
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said Sunday that the “flammable right wing” of the GOP won’t get what it wants in government funding negotiations this week as another government shutdown deadline looms, tasking Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) with breaking the “inevitable” news to his ranks. Congress passed a temporary funding measure Thursday, extending the first government...