Politics

WATCH: House Democrats discuss impending passage of COVID-19 relief package

By Associated Press

The House is expected to pass a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package late Friday that includes $1,400 checks for most Americans and billions of dollars for schools, state and local governments and businesses.

Interior Secretary nominee Deb Haaland’s grilling raises questions on bias

By Felicia Fonseca and Matthew Brown, Associated Press

Those who support the Democratic congresswoman from New Mexico say Haaland is being attacked for her ethnicity and beliefs that are widespread among Native Americans.

Armenia’s political tensions still high after PM’s coup talk

By Avet Demourian, Associated Press

Nikol Pashinyan has faced opposition calls to step down over a Nov. 10 peace deal that ended six weeks of fierce fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh by handing over large parts of the region and surrounding areas to Azerbaijan.

U.S. implicates Saudi crown prince in Khashoggi’s killing

By Eric Tucker, Aamer Madhani, Associated Press

Saudi Arabia's crown prince approved an operation to kill or capture a U.S.-based journalist inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. That's according to a newly declassified U.S. intelligence report released Friday.

WATCH: Biden surveys damage of severe winter weather in Texas

By Darlene Superville, Associated Press

President Joe Biden heard firsthand from Texans clobbered by this month's brutal winter weather on Friday and pledged to stick with them “for the long haul” as he made his first trip to a major disaster area since he took…

WATCH: House Democrats poised to pass $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package

By Alan Fram, Associated Press

The relief bill would provide millions of people with $1,400 direct payments. It contains billions of dollars for vaccines and COVID-19 testing, schools, state and local governments, the ailing restaurant and airline industries and emergency jobless benefits while providing tax…

Kentucky Senate passes bill to restrict no-knock warrants

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Associated Press

Under the bill, no-knock warrants would only be issued if there was "clear and convincing evidence" that the "crime alleged is a crime that would qualify a person, if convicted, as a violent offender."…

AP report: Parliamentarian says COVID-19 bill must lose minimum wage hike

By Alan Fram, Associated Press

The Senate parliamentarian has dealt a potentially lethal blow to Democrats' drive to hike the minimum wage, deciding that the cherished progressive goal must fall from a massive COVID-19 relief bill the party is trying to speed through Congress.

U.S. bombs facilities in Syria used by Iran-backed militia

By Robert Burns, Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press

The U.S. was retaliating for a rocket attack earlier this month that killed one civilian contractor and wounded a U.S. service member and other coalition troops.

Biden directive expands jobless aid to more unemployed

By Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press

Those eligible include people who have turned down job offers because they believed the employers weren't providing sufficient protection from the coronavirus.