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Senators close in on $10 billion COVID relief deal
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Top Senate negotiators have said they are close to striking a deal to approve $10 billion in additional COVID relief funding with just a handful of days remaini...
Mar 31, 2022
U2's Bono thanks Capitol Police in visit to push for COVID funding
SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- He still hasn't found what he's looking for: emergency COVID-19 relief funding to distribute more vaccines to underserved countries. U2's frontrunner Paul...
Mar 31, 2022
DOJ expands Jan. 6 probe to include planning of 'Save America' rally
Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Justice is expanding its criminal probe into the events of Jan. 6 to include preparations for the rally that preceded the s...
Mar 31, 2022
Historian Deborah Lipstadt confirmed as envoy to combat antisemitism after push from Jewish groups
Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Senate on Wednesday night unanimously confirmed Deborah Lipstadt, Biden's nominee for special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, after mo...
Mar 31, 2022
Biden administration moves forward with plans to lift Title 42 border restrictions
grandriver/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Homeland Security is expected to move forward this week with lifting Title 42 restrictions -- the Trump-era order giving the government authori...
Mar 31, 2022
House Jan. 6 committee faces time crunch ahead of public hearings
ak_phuong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is facing a time crunch as investigators scramble to piece together former President Donald Tru...
Mar 30, 2022
Less than 20% of Russian troops around Kyiv are 'repositioning': Pentagon on Day 35
Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- Over the last 24 hours, the Pentagon has seen "less than 20%" of the Russian troops that had been around Kyiv moving northward as they "reposition" into Bel...
Mar 30, 2022
Federal probe into Hunter Biden's taxes intensifies, sources say
Handout/DNCC via Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- The federal investigation into President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, over his tax affairs has intensified in recent weeks, sources familiar with t...
Mar 30, 2022
Oklahoma, Arizona sign transgender sports bans into law
Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE(OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) -- Oklahoma and Arizona became the latest states to impose transgender sports bans Wednesday. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a law banning transgen...
Mar 30, 2022
Parents of Trevor Reed, ex-Marine detained in Russia, protest outside White House
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The parents of Trevor Reed, a 30-year-old U.S. citizen and former Marine currently who has been imprisoned in Russia since 2019, demonstrated outside the Wh...
Mar 30, 2022
