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No vote expected on infrastructure this week
rarrarorro/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- House Democratic leaders are pulling the plug on infrastructure this week. The plan to vote on the $1 trillion infrastructure bill Thursday is now officially canceled,...
Oct 28, 2021
Garland, under GOP attack, defends memo on violent threats against school board officials
Getty Images/Tasos Katopodis(WASHINGTON) -- A Senate hearing grew heated on Wednesday as Republicans repeatedly demanded Attorney General Merrick Garland retract and apologize for a memo he issue...
Oct 27, 2021
Manchin raises concerns over billionaires' tax as Democrats scramble to close social spending deal
Getty Images/Drew Angerer(WASHINGTON) -- Democrats on Wednesday scrambled to close the deal on President Joe Biden's landmark social spending legislation, focusing on new ways to pay for the pack...
Oct 27, 2021
Biden stumps for McAuliffe in Virginia ahead of gubernatorial election
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(ARLINGTON, Va.) -- Headlining a rally Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden was the latest national Democrat to campaign in Virginia for gubernatorial nominee...
Oct 27, 2021
Manchin speaks out about his tough bargaining with Biden, fellow Democrats
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- "I don’t know where in the hell I belong," Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat, said Tuesday when when asked about possibly switching parties am...
Oct 26, 2021
Senate confirms Cindy McCain, former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake as ambassadors
OlegAlbinksy/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Three of President Joe Biden’s major nominees were confirmed to ambassadorships by the Senate on Tuesday. Former Sen. Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican who lef...
Oct 26, 2021
Border agents seen in controversial photos on horseback not yet questioned: Source
VallarieE/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Border Patrol agents at the center of a controversy stemming from their use of horses to block Haitian migrants from entering the U.S. have not yet been questi...
Oct 26, 2021
Parents brace for more limited Child Tax Credit in Democratic dealmaking
jxfzsy/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Brihanna Sims, a 27-year-old school bus driver and mother of a 7-year-old daughter, faces a financial pinch each summer when the number of routes are scaled back. In summe...
Oct 26, 2021
Obama hits campaign trail ahead of gubernatorial elections in Virginia, New Jersey
adamkaz/iStock(VIRGINIA) -- With just over a week to go until the last day of voting in Virginia and New Jersey, former President Barack Obama is joining each state's Democratic nominee for governor o...
Oct 23, 2021
Former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas found guilty of unlawful campaign donations
David Dee Delgado/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Soviet-born businessman Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, was found guilty Friday of making unlawful campaign donations totaling more than $3...
Oct 22, 2021
