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Biden pitches infrastructure plan at Amtrak anniversary
OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images(PHILADELPHIA) -- On the 50th anniversary of Amtrak on Friday, President Joe Biden reflected on how the rail service had given him a second "family" and used the c...
Apr 30, 2021
Biden administration to return billions in border wall funding Trump diverted from Pentagon
OlegAlbinksy/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration is returning to the Pentagon billions in funds diverted by President Donald Trump to build the wall at the southwestern border, and plans to...
Apr 30, 2021
Florida legislature passes election bill imposing new restrictions on mail-in voting
directorspence/iStock(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) -- Despite the push from activists, corporate leaders and Democrats to reject legislation imposing new restrictions on voting, late Thursday, the Florida legis...
Apr 30, 2021
Policing reform legislation gets renewed push on Capitol Hill
dlewis33/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- One day after President Joe Biden called for Congress to deliver compromise legislation on policing reform to his desk by May 25 -- the anniversary of George Floyd&rsquo...
Apr 30, 2021
Pelosi says 3/4 of House members have received COVID-19 vaccine
drnadig/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Roughly 75% of House members have been vaccinated against COVID-19, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters Thursday, as she defended the health precautions ...
Apr 30, 2021
Former Trump official Ryan Zinke files paperwork for congressional seat in Montana
Paul Morigi/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who served under Donald Trump and resigned in 2018 amid multiple ethics investigations, filed paperwork on Thursday aftern...
Apr 30, 2021
Federal judge's ruling allows deportations to continue despite Biden's attempt at pause
Kuzma/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge has extended the block on the Biden administration’s attempt to pause deportations. When U.S. District Court Judge Drew Tipton initially put a hold on...
Apr 29, 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris: We must 'speak truth' about history of racism in America
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday in an exclusive interview with ABC News' Good Morning America that she did not think the United States was a "racist country" but that ...
Apr 29, 2021
Key takeaways from Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress
Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden is no stranger to the State of the Union and joint addresses to Congress after 36 years in the Senate and ei...
Apr 29, 2021
George Floyd protests trigger wave of GOP "anti-riot" laws
filo/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Dramatic protests that unsettled the nation after the murder of George Floyd in police custody have triggered quiet but growing backlash from state Republican lawmakers who ...
Apr 29, 2021
