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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is requesting nearly $100 billion in emergency disaster aid after Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and other natural disasters, telling lawmakers that the money is “urgently needed.” The letter Monday to House Speaker Mike Johnson comes as lawmakers meet during a lame-duck session to finish ...
... a swan song for Biden," said Erin Murphy, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "Not only is he a lame duck, but a super lame duck because his successor is going to have very different policies." White House officials insist that Biden's visits ...
... he came with a detailed list of questions. President Biden talked about the important items that he feels he still has to do in the lame-duck session of Congress, including funding the government, as well as some more additional disaster relief funds that he wants to see done. He ...
First tests will come during the "lame duck" period of the remaining days of this Congress, the eight-week sprint until Jan. 3, 2025, when the new lawmakers are sworn into office. As lawmakers return this week they will be joined by dozens of new names in the House and ...
The heavily Republican district includes cities such as Green Bay as well as rural areas. Lyerly’s campaign spokesperson, Kurt Frewing, said that Lyerly congratulated Wied but had no further comment. Wied promised in a statement to bring “some Wisconsin commonsense to Washington to lower everyday costs, secure the southern ...
... that was increasingly skeptical – if not outright hostile – to institutions and established power structures. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who challenged Trump for the Republican nomination, lamented that the indictments “sucked out all the oxygen” from this year’s GOP primary. Trump easily captured his party’s nomination without ever participating ...
... held at the state fair park in West Allis, will include the rapper Cardi B, who is slated only to speak, and performances by GloRilla, Flo Milli, MC Lyte, The Isley Brothers and DJ GEMINI GILLY. Associated Press writers Darlene Superville in Washington and Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix contributed.
... system again, we need to fix Fannie and Freddie." Trump hasn't said whether he wants to revisit ending the conservatorship, but in 2021 he lamented to Republican Sen. Rand Paul that his privatization effort had failed. "My Administration was denied the time it needed to fix this problem," he ...
... abusing her sons, she appears to have facilitated the abuse, according to her sons' legal filings. One cousin testified during the brothers' first trial that Lyle told her he was too scared to sleep in his room because his father would come in and touch his genitals. When the cousin ...
... the Menendez brothers be resentenced for the 1989 killing of their parents. It's the first step in what could lead to their eventual release. Lyle and Erik Menendez admitted to fatally shooting their mother and father in the family's Beverly Hills mansion. After an initial mistrial, a second ...
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