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Biden gets second booster after outlining dire need for COVID funding
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden received his second booster shot before television cameras on Wednesday following remarks at the White House about the state of the coun...
Mar 30, 2022
GOP's Susan Collins to vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Sen. Susan Collins of Maine plans to support the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Co...
Mar 30, 2022
US bracing for influx of migrants at southern border if Title 42 revoked: DHS
Sergio Flores/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Homeland Security is bracing for as many as 18,000 migrants per day at the southern border if Title 42 is revoked, according t...
Mar 29, 2022
Democrats, families push Senate to approve legislation to help soldiers sickened by burn pits
Tim Graham/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Politicians and family members are calling on Congress to step up and do more to help soldiers who were affected by potentially deadly diseases caused by toxic b...
Mar 29, 2022
Pentagon dubious of Russian 'withdrawal' north of Kyiv, expects troops will move to eastern Ukraine
Glowimages/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Pentagon is seeing "small numbers" of Russian troops repositioning to the north of Kyiv but is not labeling it a withdrawal as Russia has characterized it. I...
Mar 29, 2022
SCOTUS debates 'survival' of US military in dispute over reservists' job protections
Phil Roeder/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration on Tuesday warned the U.S. Supreme Court that "survival of the nation is at stake" in a dispute with the state of Texas over a federal ...
Mar 29, 2022
Protesting COVID mandates, 'People’s Convoy' heads back to California
Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The group known as "The People's Convoy," led by truckers announced it is leaving the Washington, D.C., area this week to make a cross-count...
Mar 29, 2022
Rep. Don Young lies in state at US Capitol
JABIN BOTSFORD/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The late Rep. Don Young of Alaska, the longest-serving Republican in the history of the House of Representatives, was remembered by Capitol Hill...
Mar 29, 2022
Biden signs legislation named for Emmett Till making lynching a federal hate crime
MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden has signed the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act into law Tuesday, making lynching a hate crime under federal law. "It was pure terror, ...
Mar 29, 2022
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for Justice Clarence Thomas to resign
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign from the nation's highest court as a growing number of Democrats de...
Mar 29, 2022
