As the U.S. government gets closer to being unable to pay its bills, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday urged Congress to act quickly to raise or suspend the debt limit. The divided Congress faces a growing list of urgent matters when it returns from recess later this month, but …
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Washington — Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines convened a top-level meeting late last week to discuss the intelligence community’s efforts to uncover the cause of the mysterious illness known as “Havana Syndrome.” But even after months of intensified effort by multiple government agencies, evidence pinpointing the origin of the …
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Washington — The Senate is slowly inching closer to a final vote on the roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, as debate on amendments to the proposal continues and Republicans urge their Democratic colleagues not to move too quickly. The Senate has so far considered eight amendments to the plan, …
Read More »Former President Trump in late December spoke with top Justice Department officials about the 2020 presidential election and told them to “just say the election was corrupt and to leave the rest to me” and Republicans in Congress, according to notes taken by then-acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue. Donoghue’s …
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Washington — Republicans working on the bipartisan infrastructure deal rebuffed an offer from their Democratic counterparts and the White House to address the remaining issues in the talks, according to a GOP source familiar with the discussions, with negotiations over the details of the nearly $600 billion plan growing tenuous. …
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President Biden hailed the moment as historic as the families of nearly 60 million children are receiving roughly $15 billion in the first monthly payments of the advanced Child Tax Credit. President Biden and Democratic lawmakers hope the money, part of the latest round of COVID-19 pandemic relief passed earlier …
Read More »President Trump made a call to TV star Roseanne Barr to congratulate her on her reboot of the 1980’s classic “Roseanne” after managing to score record ratings Tuesday night. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabe Sanders confirmed to CBS News that Mr. Trump phoned Barr on Wednesday where, according to …
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