GOP senator jams up Pentagon pick over Biden’s Navy plan
The nominee on hold, Susanna Blume, had been tapped to run the Pentagon’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation office.
Defense news - 5 months ago
‘Trump isn’t the dictator’: Wisconsin GOP inches away from Trump
WISCONSIN DELLS, Wis. — It could have upended the Wisconsin Republican Party’s annual convention, given Donald Trump’s hold on the GOP. Just as the state party gathered this past weekend, Trump issued...
Politics / Politics news - 5 months ago
McConnell tries to derail Democratic infrastructure strategy
Mitch McConnell is pressuring President Joe Biden and congressional Democratic leaders to further weaken the link between a bipartisan infrastructure deal and a bigger liberal-leaning spending bill, w...
Congress / Congress news - 5 months ago
New border fight pits Texas against Biden over care for 4,500 migrant kids
The Biden administration is in an escalating battle with Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over a state plan to close shelters housing roughly 4,500 unaccompanied immigrant children.Abbott, who has po...
Politics / Politics news - 5 months ago
The 2024 Iowa caucus campaign has already begun
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Former President Donald Trump would be the overwhelming frontrunner for the Republican Party’s nomination should he wage a 2024 comeback bid. But that’s not stopping his would-...
Politics / Politics news - 5 months ago
UK
US takes down dozens of Iran-linked news sites, accusing them of disinformation
Notices seem on Iran-affiliated websites saying that they had been seized as a part of regulation enforcement motionUS authorities have seized a variety of Iran’s state-linked information web sites, which they accused of spreading “disinformation” on Tuesday, a US official stated, a transfer that se...
Energy & Environment
EPA watchdog says Trump appointees kept fired employees on payroll
The improper payments were directed by former chief of staff Ryan Jackson and carried out by former White House liaison Charles Munoz.
Energy & Environment - / Energy & Environment news - 5 months ago
Economy
A ‘humble’ Fed ramps up inflation forecast as prices jump
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank still expects rising inflation to subside in the coming months but underscored that he will be watching the data to see if that's wrong.
Economy - / Economy news - 5 months ago
Biden’s back door to wage hikes
Economy / Economy news - 5 months ago
Healthcare
Arkansas governor trying to reverse his state's trends on vaccination
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said incentives to get people vaccinated aren't working.
Healthcare - / Healthcare news - 5 months ago
‘A tough slog’: White House struggles to increase vaccination rates as Delta variant surges
Healthcare / Healthcare news - 5 months ago
Cuomo ends New York's state of emergency
Healthcare / Healthcare news - 5 months ago
GOP leaders spar with colleges over vaccine mandates
Healthcare / Healthcare news - 5 months ago
College vaccine mandates rile GOP states
Healthcare / Healthcare news - 5 months ago
Defense
U.S. airstrikes target Iran-backed militias in Syria, Iraq
The strikes were described as "defensive."
Defense - / Defense news - 5 months ago
Congress
Mike Gravel, former U.S. senator from Alaska, dies at 91
SEASIDE, Calif. — Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a later presidential run, has died. He was 91.Gravel, who represented Alaska as a Democrat in the Senate from 1969 to...
Congress - / Congress news - 5 months ago
Politics
Families of the missing visit site of Florida condo collapse
SURFSIDE, Fla. — Families of the missing visited the scene of the Florida condo building collapse Sunday as rescuers kept digging through the mound of rubble and clinging to hope that someone could yet be alive somewhere under the broken concrete and twisted metal.The death toll rose by just four pe...
Politics - / Politics news - 5 months ago
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