Washington — A lieutenant with the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department was arrested Thursday and accused of obstructing an investigation into the Proud Boys and leaking information to its leader, Enrique Tarrio. Shane Lamond, 47, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington on one count of obstruction …
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Attorneys representing a federal government employees’ union sued Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen over the constitutionality of the debt limit, which caps the amount the federal government can borrow to pay for congressionally approved spending. The move comes amid tense negotiations over raising the debt ceiling as the administration counts down to …
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The College Board says changes will be made to its new Advanced Placement African American studies course after critics said the agency bowed to political pressure and removed several topics from the framework, including Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer life. In a statement on Monday, the board said …
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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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