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DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s455dqfc4', 'news01s455dqfc4', '29'); Today is the first day of the lame-duck session of the 111th Congress. What will (and what won't) they accomplish in the next few months before a new, more Republican Congress is sworn in? Gwen Ifill briefs Hari Sreenivasan on the Congress' four ...
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. File photo by Getty Images. As dozens of newly-elected members of Congress arrive this week for freshmen orientation, one veteran lawmaker begins his fight to save his job. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., after months of investigations, will finally have his ethics trial on Capitol Hill Monday. Rangel will represent himself against...
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks sort through the top political stories, including the debate over extending tax cuts, prospects for the lame-duck Congress, criticism of debt commission ideas and former President Bush's new book.
NewsHour Essayist Anne Taylor Fleming laments the newsroom cuts and budget woes of her hometown newspaper, the Los Angeles Times.
... the rule, the rule being that that close support with local law enforcement really makes ICE's job, they really do it outside of the limelight, right? But when you don't have that, then ICE is in the forefront. Liz Landers: John, speaking of how ICE operates, yesterday, we ...
... of Commons, but faced strong opposition in Parliament’s upper chamber, the House of Lords, which approved it, while also passing a “motion of regret” lamenting the legislation. It's due back in the Commons on Tuesday for further debate. Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch criticized Starmer's Labour Party ...
... agenda and were a waste of money. Tobin, who ministered in more than 70 countries as a Redemptorist priest and the order's superior general, lamented the retreat in USAID assistance, saying U.S. philanthropy makes a big difference in everything from hunger to health.The three cardinals said their ...
... high court will take up a case from Missouri, in which a jury awarded $1.25 million to a man who developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after spraying Roundup on a community garden in St. Louis. The Supreme Court in 2022 declined to hear a similar claim from Bayer in ...
One judge later identified grave missteps in how Halligan presented the Comey case to a grand jury. Another dismissed both prosecutions outright, calling Halligan's appointment unlawful. Smith, the special counsel who investigated Trump but left before he could be fired, has himself lamented the losses. "These are not partisans ...
... you believe the military action was unconstitutional, as you seem to be indicating here, what can you do about it? I mean, the president has lamented earlier in this week to other Republicans that he was worried Democrats would try to impeach him if they lose in the upcoming midterms ...
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