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Biden defends response to baby formula shortage as complaints grow, probes planned
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden on Friday defended his administration’s response to an ongoing baby formula shortage that has triggered public outcry from paren...
May 13, 2022
House Democrats call on Supreme Court to defend abortion access
Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- House Democrats, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol facing the Supreme Court on Friday, calling on the justices to defe...
May 13, 2022
Homeland Security announces $1.6B in local grants for election security, to combat extremism
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Shortly after the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, then-top Department of Homeland Security official Alejandro Mayorkas saw a picture of a Federal Emerge...
May 13, 2022
Justice Department opens grand jury probe into Trump's handling of documents
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Justice has opened a grand jury investigation related to former President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified document...
May 13, 2022
Biden to announce $10 billion from American Rescue Plan for policing, public safety
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden will announce Friday that $10 billion from the American Rescue Plan has been committed to police departments and public safety across the U...
May 13, 2022
Proposed Louisiana bill seeks to criminalize abortion, charge women with murder
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Louisiana's House of Representatives is debating a bill Thursday which would ban abortions and subject women to criminal prosecution f...
May 12, 2022
Nurses march on capital demanding reforms to protect themselves and their patients
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Thousands of nurses from around the country marched to the White House and past the U.S. Capitol Thursday demanding reforms to the health care industry t...
May 12, 2022
GOP hits Biden for baby formula shortage as White House looks to boost supply
Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The White House is moving to deal with yet another crisis with potentially damaging political consequences: a nationwide shortage of baby form...
May 12, 2022
Paris Hilton urges federal action to reform 'troubled teen' facilities
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Paris Hilton walked up a 4-by-4 imitation cinder-block solitary confinement cell erected on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday morning, z...
May 12, 2022
Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Kevin McCarthy, other GOP members for testimony
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack subpoenaed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other Republ...
May 12, 2022
