President Biden will meet with a trio of Tennessee lawmakers who faced expulsion votes from the state legislature after they joined a protest demanding action on gun control on the House floor, the White House announced Wednesday. Democratic Representatives Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson — collectively known as …
Read More »The White House doesn’t keep visitor logs for President Biden’s personal residences, the White House counsel’s office confirmed Monday. That clarification came as some House Republicans have begun calling for visitor logs of Mr. Biden’s Wilmington, Del., home after multiple documents marked classified were discovered at the his Wilmington residence. …
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The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration on Tuesday announced that it is banning TikTok from all House-managed mobile devices “due to a number of security risks.” House staffers are now barred from downloading TikTok onto House devices and must remove the app from any mobile devices onto …
Read More »Salem, Oregon — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Tuesday that she is commuting the sentences of all of the state’s 17 inmates awaiting execution, saying their death sentences will be changed to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown, a Democrat with less than a month remaining in …
Read More »Washington — The House Ways & Means Committee now has access to several years of former President Donald Trump’s tax records, days after the Supreme Court declined to block their release. The Treasury Department said in a brief statement that it has “complied with last week’s court decision.” Under federal …
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Former President Donald Trump is suing the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to block a subpoena requiring him to testify. The lawsuit filed Friday alleges that the subpoena “is invalid, unlawful, and unenforceable because President Trump, as a former president of …
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There were two security incidents at the U.S. Supreme Court in the same hour Wednesday, CBS News has learned. Minutes before guns were seized from a Georgia man’s van near the Supreme Court complex Wednesday afternoon, a California man was arrested for claiming he had “higher authority” and attempting to …
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A U.S. strike in northwestern Syria killed the leader of ISIS in Syria Tuesday, according to U.S. Central Command. The drone strike targeted Maher al-Agal, the leader of ISIS in Syria and one of the top five leaders of ISIS overall, and an unnamed senior ISIS leader who works closely …
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Washington — President Joe Biden on Wednesday called on Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months — an idea that’s intended to ease financial pressures at the pump, but that also reveals the political toxicity of high gas prices ahead of the midterm elections in November. …
Read More »A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted Nicholas John Roske on federal charges of attempting to murder Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The 26-year-old Roske was charged with one count of attempting to murder a justice of the United States. If convicted as charged, Roske faces a maximum sentence of …
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