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Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Republican-led House failed on Thursday to override President Joe Biden’s veto of a resolution that would have prevented retirement fund managers from accounting for certain social factors when making investment decisions. The vote was 219-200 in favor of overcoming the veto, but a two-thirds majority vote is needed. The […]
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The fraught politics of immigration have largely focused on the land border between the U.S. and Mexico, but on Thursday afternoon a panel of lawmakers will turn to Florida’s maritime border and what government data shows is a sharply rising wave of migration from the Caribbean. The […]
Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House COVID-19 team will wind down as the country moves out of the emergency phase of the pandemic, multiple administration officials confirmed to ABC News. The public health emergency is set to expire on May 11 after being in place since early 2020. The end will impact public health […]
U.S. Supreme Court (WASHINGTON) — A Supreme Court debate Wednesday over parody and popular commercial brands was dominated by talk of whiskey bottles, dog toys, pornography and poop. For nearly two hours, in an argument punctuated by laughter, the justices wrestled with the intersection of freedom of speech and protection for trademarks in a case pitting […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis likened former President Donald Trump’s jabs against him to so much “background noise,” according to excerpts from an upcoming interview with Piers Morgan. “To me, it’s just background noise,” DeSantis is quoted saying in an account of the sit-down Morgan wrote for The New York Post. […]
Tetra Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Patients and medical providers who rely on pharmaceutical medications to treat everything from asthma to ADHD to cancer may have had a harder time finding those medications last year than in years past, a new Senate report released Wednesday finds. The report, issued by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs […]
Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — It’s a brand battle in the Supreme Court this week as whiskey maker Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. takes on a dog toy manufacturer in a case over free speech and federal trademark law. The case, first filed by Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc., against VIP Products LLC in Arizona several years […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday teased a 2024 run as he celebrated American legends Bruce Springsteen, Gladys Knight, Julia Louis Dreyfus and more in a White House ceremony. Biden bestowed medals to nearly two dozen individuals and groups whose work, he said, deepened the country’s “understanding of the humanities and broadened […]
Westend61/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Federal lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that would give consumers a tax break on the purchase of a new electric bike. The Electric Bicycle Incentive Kickstart for the Environment (E-BIKE) Act would offer a refundable tax credit amounting to 30% of the e-bike’s price, capped at $1,500. New e-bikes that cost less […]
Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As Russian President Vladimir Putin confers with China’s President Xi Jinping in Moscow, the visit signifies more than a celebration of the so-called “no limits” partnership between the two powers. It’s also a pivotal meeting poised to deepen the gap between the East and West, and just the latest […]