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Boebert draws backlash for family Christmas photo of kids posing with guns
GETTY/Drew Angerer/Staff(COLORADO) -- Rep. Lauren Boebert, the gun-toting Colorado Republican who is under threat of being removed from her committee assignment for Islamophobic comments targeted...
Dec 08, 2021
Meadows files lawsuit against Pelosi, Jan. 6 committee after panel moves to hold him in contempt
iStock/Douglas Rissing(WASHINGTON) -- Former President Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows is suing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and members of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capito...
Dec 08, 2021
At Guantanamo detention camp hearing, both parties express disappointment with Biden administration
iStock/Alex Potemkin(GUANTANAMO) -- Through its nearly two-decade existence, the Guantanamo Bay detention center has sparked intense, partisan debate. At a Senate hearing on closing the camp, the...
Dec 08, 2021
Biden's vaccine mandate to face Senate challenge
dkfielding/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Republican-led efforts to repeal President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate on private businesses will once again get a vote in the Senate Wednesday, and this time a repeal...
Dec 08, 2021
Congressional leaders reach deal to avert debt ceiling crisis
uschools/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Congressional leaders on Tuesday announced a deal that would avert a default of the nation's credit by allowing Democrats to raise the debt ceiling in the Senate without...
Dec 08, 2021
New York City gives noncitizens right to vote in local elections
JasonDoiy/iStock(NEW YORK) -- For Julieta Larsen, elections are bittersweet. Hailing from Argentina, Larsen moved to New York City after meeting her husband, a firefighter with the FDNY. Now, seven ye...
Dec 08, 2021
Mark Meadows no longer cooperating with Jan. 6 committee, say sources
uschools/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has informed the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol that he is no longer cooperat...
Dec 07, 2021
Why Congress keeps letting deadlines pile up and pushing them back
Stephen Emlund/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- When asked Monday about whether his sweeping social spending and climate agenda -- the Build Back Better Act -- can pass the Senate before Christmas as he and cong...
Dec 07, 2021
34N22? NNH? Super PACs with cryptic names raise transparency concerns
tostphoto/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- With the critical 2022 midterm election looming, elections experts say the already opaque world of campaign fundraising is becoming even more murky, as a number of poli...
Dec 07, 2021
Pence's former chief of staff, Marc Short, subpoenaed by Jan 6. committee
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Former Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff has been subpoenaed by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a sou...
Dec 07, 2021
