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Supreme Court justices meet for first time amid fallout from leaked draft abortion opinion
Photo by Robert Mooney/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Supreme Court justices met Thursday for the first time since the bombshell leak of a draft opinion showing the Court's conservative majority is poise...
May 12, 2022
Biden orders flags to half-staff as US records 1 million COVID deaths
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden on Thursday addressed the U.S. reaching the milestone of 1 million coronavirus deaths. "One million empty chairs around the family dinner table," Biden said...
May 12, 2022
John Eastman, Trump's former lawyer, asked Pennsylvania lawmakers to throw out absentee ballots to overturn Biden win
Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- John Eastman, Donald Trump's former lawyer, urged Pennsylvania lawmakers to sow doubt in the 2020 election and even sugge...
May 11, 2022
Report outlines federal 'abuse' of Native children at boarding schools
Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- More than 500 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children died over the course of 150 years in Indigenous boarding schools run by the Americ...
May 11, 2022
Biden says US farmers play critical role in 'feeding the world' amid Ukraine war
Chris Kleponis/CNP/Pool/Getty Images(KANKAKEE, Ill.) -- President Joe Biden hit the road Wednesday to talk about the role American farmers can play in alleviating global food shortages caused by Russi...
May 11, 2022
GOP strong on crime, boosted by trust in inflation: POLL
Dimitri Otis/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Broad Republican advantages in trust to tame inflation and handle crime are keeping the party in a strong position for the 2022 midterm elections in the latest A...
May 11, 2022
Jay Z’s Roc Nation convenes social justice summit to drive action amid midterms
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for City of Hope(NEW YORK) -- The social justice arm of Jay Z's record label, Roc Nation, has convened a coalition of social justice leaders from various industries for a summ...
May 11, 2022
Senate Republicans block bill that would codify Roe v. Wade
J.Castro/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- In the wake of a bombshell leak last week of a Supreme Court draft opinion indicating the court's conservative majority could soon overturn Roe v. Wade, Senate Dem...
May 11, 2022
Senate confirms Lisa Cook, making her first Black woman who will serve on Fed board
Ken Cedeno-Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Lisa Cook to be the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. The vote was 51-50, with Vice Pr...
May 11, 2022
GOP donors increasingly split over support for Trump as midterms approach
Jeff Swensen/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As the 2022 midterm elections approach, some GOP super PACs are spending millions of dollars to oppose primary candidates endorsed by Donald Trump -- suggestin...
May 11, 2022
