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Senate Democrats unveil long-awaited marijuana legalization bill
Mint Images/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Senate Democrats on Thursday unveiled their long-awaited marijuana legalization proposal, announcing sweeping legislation that would lift the federal prohibitio...
Jul 21, 2022
DHS inspector general opens criminal probe into deleted Secret Service texts
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general has turned the inquiry into the Secret Service deleted text messages into a criminal investig...
Jul 21, 2022
House votes to guarantee contraception access in federal law
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House on Thursday passed a The Right to Contraception Act that ensures access to contraception, such as birth control, to anyone who needs it -- a move comi...
Jul 21, 2022
President Biden tests positive for COVID-19
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time Thursday morning, the White House said. Biden, 79, has "very mild symptoms...
Jul 21, 2022
What is witness tampering, and could Trump possibly be charged?
Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House select committee investigating Jan. 6 is holding its second prime-time hearing on Thursday, which will focus on the Trump White House's reactio...
Jul 21, 2022
Prime-time Jan. 6 hearing to focus on Trump's riot response, with new testimony and evidence
Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold the eighth in its latest string of hearings on Thursday star...
Jul 21, 2022
Biden to unveil $37B budget request for funding law enforcement, crime prevention
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden will unveil on Thursday an expanded budget request to Congress with $37 billion in funding for law enforcement and crime p...
Jul 21, 2022
New mural calls attention to Americans held abroad as loved ones say, 'This doesn't go away'
STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Families of several Americans who are detained abroad arrived in Washington on Wednesday morning to unveil a mural depicting them in an effort, the...
Jul 20, 2022
Georgia prosecutors 'target' 16 'fake electors' in 2020 election probe
Jason Marz/Getty Images(FULTON COUNTY, Ga.) -- The Georgia district attorney probing former President Donald Trump and his allies' efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in ...
Jul 20, 2022
Sen. John Thune speaks about inflation and House vote to protect same-sex marriage
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- On Tuesday, House Democrats passed a bill which would protect same-sex and interracial marriages, in response to the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe...
Jul 20, 2022
