Politics

Last year America’s picket lines showed more activity as the country emerged from the coronavirus pandemic. Against the backdrop of hot inflation and a tight market, strike activity spiked by about 50% in 2022, and the number of workers involved jumped 60% year over year, according to a new “Labor …

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a former New York Police Department captain who was also assaulted by police as a teenager, told CBS News Tuesday that police departments must concern themselves with the “basic aptitude” of police officers and recruits, in addition to training. In a wide-ranging interview with …

A group of House Republicans are pushing to eliminate most federal taxes and replace them with a federal sales tax in a plan that would also abolish the Internal Revenue Service. But tax experts warn the so-called Fair Tax Act is not so fair to working families while giving the …

The Federal Bureau of Investigation searched President Biden’s Delaware home Friday and located six items containing classification markings. Investigators also took possession of some of his notes, the president’s lawyer said Saturday.    Bob Bauer, a personal attorney for Mr. Biden, said the search lasted about 13 hours. The classification …

Washington — With a House speaker elected, members sworn in and the rules for the 118th Congress adopted, the Republican-led House has begun the business of legislating, taking up a flurry of measures that advance the GOP’s agenda in the first full week of the new Congress. The first bills and …

The Pentagon has directed the military to proceed with plans to rename nine Army bases and hundreds of other items whose names honor the Confederacy.  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin previously approved the recommendations submitted by the congressionally-mandated Naming Commission, and Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment William A. …

The Navy’s investigation into the suicides of three sailors assigned to the USS George Washington concluded the deaths were not connected, but stress related to life in a shipyard environment was a “contributing factor” in at least one of the suicides.  In April, Master-at-Arms Seaman Recruit Xavier Mitchell-Sandor, 19, Interior …

Washington — “Incredibly disruptive.” Wreaking “havoc.” “Potentially damaging for American democracy.” Those are just some of the characterizations of a legal theory that is at the center of a case set to be argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Known as the “independent state legislature theory,” which largely laid …

Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York is expected to make a formal bid to be House Minority Leader on Friday, according to a person familiar with his plans. The expected formal announcement will be made one day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 82, one of the longest-serving party leaders …

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier is now on its first deployment, five years after it was commissioned into service and 15 years after its naming.  The brief deployment to the Atlantic is expected to further test the systems that delayed its debut. The carrier …