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Supreme Court conservatives take skeptical view of Biden student debt forgiveness
Al Drago/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Tuesday appeared deeply skeptical of the legality of a White House plan to forgive $400 billion in federal student loa...
Feb 28, 2023
McCarthy defends giving Fox host Tucker Carlson access to previously unreleased Jan. 6 security video
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday defended giving Fox host Tucker Carlson exclusive access to nearly 42,000 hours of previously unreleased surveillanc...
Feb 28, 2023
Judge on Steve Bannon trial: 'We can't keep dragging this out'
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Steve Bannon, a former adviser to Donald Trump, appeared in court Tuesday with a new crop of lawyers who promptly decried the "explosion" of evidence di...
Feb 28, 2023
FISA program that helped take down Zawahiri is expiring. Officials are sounding the alarm
Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Top U.S. officials on Tuesday began their formal efforts to sound an alarm to Congress on a surveillance program -- one they describe as "criti...
Feb 28, 2023
'Gang of 8' to get briefed on Trump, Biden and Pence classified documents
Grant Faint/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. officials are expected to brief top congressional leaders on Tuesday about documents with classified markings that were in the possession of former Preside...
Feb 28, 2023
House's new US-China committee holds first hearing, focusing on communist 'threat'
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House's new committee on the U.S. and China will hold its first hearing in prime time on Tuesday night, focusing on the “overall t...
Feb 28, 2023
GOP-led Homeland Security panel holds first border hearing, highlighting 'the human costs'
Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- House Republicans on Tuesday once again seized on the issue of U.S. immigration following a trip to see the Biden administration's border security...
Feb 28, 2023
Classified document fallout swirls around nomination hearing for national archivist
Tetra Images - Henryk Sadura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Senate will once again consider whether to approve President Joe Biden's nominee to helm the federal agency responsible for maintaining and...
Feb 28, 2023
Biden admin gives federal agencies 30 days to ban TikTok
Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration is giving federal agencies 30 days to ensure they do not have TikTok on any federal devices, and to ensure vendors play...
Feb 28, 2023
Biden and Harris highlight Black history, warn not to try 'to erase America's past'
SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images(WSAHINGTON) -- As Black History Month draws to a close, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday evening marked the celebration by delivering remar...
Feb 27, 2023
