While conservative heat has for three years focused on the past business activities of President Biden’s son Hunter, a key Senate Republican told CBS News this week that newly obtained banking records raise similar concerns about first brother James Biden. “We have people with the Biden name, dealing with Chinese …
Read More »Congress passes bill to overhaul Postal Service and sends to Biden for signature
Washington — Congress on Tuesday passed legislation that would shore up the U.S. Postal Service and ensure six-day-a-week mail delivery, sending the bill to President Biden to sign into law. The long-fought postal overhaul has been years in the making and comes amid widespread complaints about mail service slowdowns. Many Americans …
Read More »Reporters push Pentagon to let journalists embed with U.S. troops in Europe
Pentagon and White House reporters are pushing the Biden administration to allow journalists to go with U.S. troops who are deploying to Eastern Europe, as Russian troops gather at the Ukrainian border and in nearby Belarus, arguing the lack of access does a disservice to Americans, particularly those whose loved …
Read More »RNC to consider resolution to censure Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger
The Republican National Committee will consider a resolution on Friday to censure Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, the two Republicans who sit on the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The resolution would censure Cheney and Kinzinger and call …
Read More »Judge Michelle Childs is under consideration to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, White House confirms
South Carolina federal judge Michelle Childs is under consideration to succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court, the White House confirmed late Friday. Childs, 55, is based in Columbia, South Carolina, and was nominated last year by President Biden to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals …
Read More »Law enforcement official running for New York governor calls for leniency for January 6 rioter
A candidate seeking the Republican nomination for governor of New York wrote and signed a letter on official letterhead seeking leniency for a state resident who pleaded guilty to entering a restricted building on Capitol grounds during the January 6 attack. In his letter to the judge, Lewis County, New …
Read More »Republicans warn Biden and Democrats against changing Senate rules to pass voting rights bills
Republicans on Tuesday issued a stark warning to President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats: change the Senate rules at your peril. Mr. Biden on Tuesday endorsed changes to the Senate filibuster, the rule that requires 60 votes to advance legislation, so that just a simple majority of votes would be …
Read More »White House adds two key coordinators to implement $1 trillion infrastructure law
The White House will be relying on two women in newly created roles to help lead the implementation of President Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan; it announced the appointments of Katie Thomson and Winnie Stachelberg to departments that are central to the measure, which was signed into law in November. …
Read More »Biden found to be “healthy” and “fit” to be president, says White House physician
President Biden “remains a healthy, vigorous 78-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency,” White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor wrote in a memo to White House press secretary Jen Psaki Friday. But O’Connor also took note of a couple of issues evident in the …
Read More »Man with bayonet and knives in truck arrested near DNC headquarters
U.S. Capitol Police arrested a California man who had a bayonet and machete in his truck — which was painted with white supremacist symbols, including swastikas — near the Democratic National Committee headquarters early Monday morning. Donald Craighead, 44, was pulled over by a Capitol Police officer and arrested for …
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