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'There is not a crime crisis,' DC lawmakers insist at testy House hearing on police, public safety
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Republican members of the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday pressed Washington, D.C., officials about public safety and the city's management in ...
Mar 29, 2023
John Fetterman returning to Senate following treatment for depression
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman is expected to return to Congress the week of April 17, after the upcoming two-week recess, according to a source familiar w...
Mar 29, 2023
Senate votes to repeal decades-old measures that authorized Iraq, Gulf wars
Mario Tama/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Senate on Wednesday voted to repeal two congressional authorizations from decades ago allowing the use of military force against Iraq, a country then fa...
Mar 29, 2023
US wants Israeli 'consensus' on judicial overhaul, White House says, after Biden, Netanyahu exchange
Sean Gallup/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. would like to see any decision on judicial overhaul in Israel in "keeping with a consensus" and based on the "broadest possible base of public sup...
Mar 29, 2023
'Nothing to hide,' Pence says as he weighs appeal of Trump probe order
Creativeye99/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday he's weighing how to proceed after a federal judge ruled one day earlier he must testify to a grand jury invest...
Mar 29, 2023
Sen. Rand Paul staffer's parents speak out after he was 'brutally attacked' in DC
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A staffer for Sen. Rand Paul was stabbed and seriously injured in Washington, D.C., on Saturday and a suspect has since been arrested, police and Paul's off...
Mar 29, 2023
Cybercriminals targeting US on behalf of North Korea: Report
Westend61/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A group of alleged cybercriminals has been using several techniques to target U.S. companies and government agencies on behalf of the North Korean government, acc...
Mar 29, 2023
After yet another school shooting, familiar arguments from Biden, lawmakers
Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- While the nation's latest mass shooting at a private school in Nashville, Tennessee, seems sadly all too familiar -- so, too, are the now routine r...
Mar 28, 2023
Austin confronts GOP senator for blocking military nominations over abortion policy
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Tuesday that military readiness could be impaired by the growing list of senior military nominations being blocke...
Mar 28, 2023
Kamala Harris grows emotional describing the 'blood' and 'crimes' at infamous slave post in Ghana
Ernest Ankomah/Getty Images(CAPE COAST, Ghana) -- Vice President Kamala Harris started her Tuesday in Ghana looking toward what the future could hold for Africa -- but on Tuesday afternoon, she l...
Mar 28, 2023
