Politics

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Jan. 6 committee on Monday requested the cooperation of three more House Republicans linked to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama were among the group of far-right […]

Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the city of Boston violated the First Amendment when it denied a civic group from flying the Christian Flag from city hall flagpoles to mark Constitution Day. The group — Camp Constitution — had argued that the third of three flagpoles in […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Samantha Power, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said the costs of the war in Ukraine include global food and fertilizer shortages, impacting prices for consumers and farmers around the world. “It is just another catastrophic effect of Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine,” Power told ABC “This Week” […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s surprise visit to Kyiv is “yet another sign of a very very strong support that Ukraine has in the United States,” calling it “symbolic” and “a special delight” to see her meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. […]

WAPT (JACKSON, Miss.) — One person was killed and five others were injured when multiple shooters opened fire Saturday at the Mississippi Mudbug Festival in Jackson, authorities said. The person who died is suspected to have been one of the shooters and was shot by a law enforcement officer responding to the chaotic scene at […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas faced blunt questions from lawmakers on Wednesday about how the Biden administration is handling and preparing for the eventual end of pandemic-justified border restrictions that have reduced humanitarian relief options for asylum seekers at the border. On Monday, a federal judge in Louisiana indicated he […]

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, has promised the panel will tell the “story about what happened” when the first of at least eight public hearings starts on June 9, he told reporters Thursday. “We’ll tell the story […]

Allison Joyce/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump, in a sworn affidavit, said Friday he possesses no documents subpoenaed by the New York Attorney General’s Office — but the judge overseeing the case declined to end his contempt finding and the $10,000 daily fine. “To the best of my knowledge, (i) I do not […]

Photo by Paul Morigi/WireImage via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With power players flocking to a crowded Washington hotel ballroom for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday, many itching to mingle after a two-year COVID-induced hiatus, the virus appears to be creeping closer to the gala’s star guest — President Joe Biden — with a positive test […]

Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Federal prosecutors on Friday secured a second guilty plea and cooperation deal with a member of the Oath Keepers militia group charged in the government’s seditious conspiracy case stemming from the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. Brian Ulrich, of Guyton, Georgia, admitted on Friday that he was part of […]