Politics May 16 White House blocks audio of Biden’s special counsel interview, arguing GOP has political motives “The absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings lays bare your likely goal — to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes," White House counsel Ed Siskel wrote in a scathing letter to…
Politics May 01 House passes bill to expand definition of antisemitism amid growing campus protests over Gaza war The legislation would broaden the legal definition of antisemitism to include the "targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity."…
Politics Apr 27 WATCH: Biden attends 2024 White House Correspondents’ Dinner hosted by Colin Jost An election-year roast of President Joe Biden before journalists, celebrities and politicians at the annual White House correspondents' dinner Saturday butted up against growing public discord over the Israel-Hamas war, with protests outside the event condemning both Biden's handling of…
Politics Apr 23 Senate overwhelmingly passes aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan in big bipartisan vote President Joe Biden said in a statement immediately after passage that he will sign it Wednesday and start the process of sending weapons to Ukraine, which has been struggling to hold its front lines against Russia.
Politics Apr 20 Senate passes renewal of key U.S. surveillance program just after midnight deadline The legislation approved 60-34 with bipartisan support would extend for two years the program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It now goes to President Joe Biden’s desk to become law.
World Apr 18 Congress moving swiftly on bipartisan action to punish Iran after revenge attack on Israel Several measures introduced and passed in the House and the Senate seek to publicly condemn and punish Iran financially. And the Biden administration on Thursday announced sanctions targeting producers of engines that power the drones used in the attack by…
Politics Apr 12 House passes reauthorization of key U.S. surveillance program after days of upheaval over changes The U.S. House has passed a bill to reauthorize and provide sweeping reforms of a key U.S. government surveillance tool without including broad restrictions on how the FBI uses this crucial program to search for Americans' data.
Politics Apr 12 House nears reauthorization of U.S. spy program amid GOP pushback It is unclear if Johnson, who has called the program “critical” to national security, will have the Republican support necessary to push the bill through final passage.
Politics Apr 10 Reauthorization of U.S. spy tool blocked by House conservative revolt Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has called the program “critically important” but has struggled to find a path forward on the issue.
Politics Apr 08 DOJ blasts GOP effort to hold Garland in contempt over Biden special counsel audio In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, the Justice Department rejected the demand from House Republicans that the agency turn over the full audio of Special Counsel Robert Hur's hourslong interviews with Biden and his ghostwriter.