Politics Jan 13 WATCH: House Democrats send new voting rights legislation to Senate Democrats have vowed to counteract a wave of new state laws, inspired by Donald Trump's false claims of a stolen election, that have made it harder to vote.
Politics Jan 12 WATCH: Pelosi, Schumer pay tribute to the late Sen. Harry Reid Reid lay in state at the Capitol Rotunda while Vice President Kamala Harris, senators and others joined for a ceremony closed to the public under COVID-19 protocols. Reid, who had pancreatic cancer, died last month at age 82.
Politics Jan 12 WATCH: White House press secretary Jen Psaki holds a news briefing White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese said the White House and independent forecasters expected inflation to "moderate over the course of 2022."…
Nation Jan 12 Senate passes bill to give Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till and his mother The Senate has passed a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.
Nation Jan 11 American Indian Movement leader Clyde Bellecourt dead at 85 Bellecourt was a co-founder in 1968 of AIM, which began as a local organization in Minneapolis that sought to grapple with issues of police brutality and discrimination against Native Americans.
Politics Jan 11 Planners of Jan. 6 Trump rally subpoenaed by House panel The House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas to two Republican strategists and a Trump administration official regarding their involvement in the planning and preparation of one of the rallies that preceded the deadly attack.
Politics Jan 11 WATCH: State Dept. spokesperson Ned Price and Undersecretary Victoria Nuland hold news briefing The United States and Russia locked horns over Ukraine and other security issues Monday with no sign of progress from either side at highly anticipated strategic talks.
Politics Jan 11 WATCH: McConnell, Blunt hold news conference on voting rights, filibuster rules Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has set next Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a deadline to either pass voting legislation or consider revising the rules around the chamber's filibuster blocking device.
Health Jan 11 WATCH: Fauci, Walensky testify in tense Senate hearing on the federal response to new COVID-19 variants Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert, angrily accused a senator Tuesday of making false accusations that are leading to threats against him -- all to raise political cash.
World Jan 10 Myanmar's Suu Kyi sentenced to 4 more years in prison A legal official says a court in Myanmar has sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison after finding her guilty of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies and violating coronavirus restrictions.