Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Sunday that he invited the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice John Roberts to testify to Congress about the court’s ethical standards because Justice Clarence Thomas would have “ignored” such an invitation, amid controversy over his financial disclosures. “Why not invite Justice Thomas?” host Chuck Todd asked Durbin...
Russia on Sunday accused the U.S. of denying Russian journalists visas to visit and cover Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s chairmanship of the United Nations Security Council in New York, vowing that Moscow “will not forget and will not forgive” over the matter. “The country that calls itself the strongest, the smartest, the freest and the...
Republicans in several states are working to make it harder to pass abortion rights measures after such initiatives saw success in other places last year, according to a new report. The New York Times reports that GOP state lawmakers in Ohio are pushing for a ballot amendment that would raise the passage requirement for a...
We found that Americans are more receptive to information that challenges their party leader's position than we — and most others — had previously thought.
The U.S. government has pledged that it will try to help the 16,000 Americans living in Sudan as the fighting continues between the Sudanese army and a paramilitary group. Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a statement late Saturday night confirming the U.S. suspended operations in the U.S. embassy in the city of Khartoum, noting...
Former Vice President Mike Pence has said he’ll “tell the truth” and “obey the law” when he appears, as is expected, before a federal grand jury looking into efforts by former President Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. “We'll - we'll obey the law. We'll tell the truth....
Vice President Kamala Harris told Vanessa Hauc of Telemundo that the Federal Drug Administration, not Food and Drug Administration, approved mifepristone 20 years ago.