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Supreme Court cuts EPA's Clean Water Act protection for wetlands
joe daniel price/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A sharply divided Supreme Court on Thursday significantly rolled back federal safeguards for wetlands under the Clean Water Act, siding with Idaho property...
May 25, 2023
Debt ceiling negotiators 'making progress,' Biden says even as deal remains elusive
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Seeking to strike a reassuring tone despite days of negotiations, President Joe Biden said Thursday afternoon that he's had several "productive conversations"...
May 25, 2023
Supreme Court sides with 94-year-old woman who accused government of stealing her home equity
Grant Faint/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- "The taxpayer must render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, but no more." With those words, Chief Justice John Roberts and a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on Thursda...
May 25, 2023
DeSantis to have presidential campaign kickoff event in Iowa
Stephen Maturen/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is set to forgo a traditional presidential campaign launch and will instead hold his "campaign kickoff" event next week in the key...
May 25, 2023
Twitter glitches delay Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement with Elon Musk
Scott Olson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' novel way to kick off his 2024 presidential campaign -- via a live Twitter event featuring one of the world's most famous businessmen...
May 24, 2023
Where Trump and DeSantis stand on 5 financial issues, including taxes and Social Security
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are headed toward a clash in the 2024 GOP primary race and are already foreshadowing an intens...
May 24, 2023
Debt ceiling timeline: When are Medicaid, Social Security and other payments in jeopardy
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Image(WASHINGTON) -- Unless Washington reaches a deal on the debt ceiling, government payments millions of Americans rely on each month could be in jeopar...
May 24, 2023
Biden to pick history-making general as next head of Joint Chiefs
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden plans to nominate Gen. "CQ" Brown, the current Air Force chief of staff, to be the next chairman of the Joint Ch...
May 24, 2023
Chief Justice John Roberts defends Supreme Court's 'highest standards of conduct,' offers no new rules
Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- In his first televised public remarks since the pandemic, Chief Justice John Roberts defended the integrity of the Supreme Court in the face of slumping publi...
May 24, 2023
McCarthy sends GOP negotiators to White House 8 days before potential default
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- After three weeks of negotiations and eight days from a possible default, as of Wednesday there was still no breakthrough in talks to avert potentia...
May 24, 2023
