Category: Politics

Senators from both parties have reached an agreement to clarify that the vice president only has a ceremonial role in overseeing the certification of the electoral results, according to two Senate sources, the first legislative response to former President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Read More

In perhaps the strongest signal yet that Donald Trump is plotting another run for the White House, the former President told New York Magazine in a new interview that he is still deciding when — not if — he should announce a 2024 campaign. Read More

Emotion fueled a debate on the Senate floor on Thursday as Republicans objected to taking up a Democratic bill that would guarantee a woman’s constitutional right to travel across state lines to receive abortion care. Read More

Indiana asked the Supreme Court Thursday to move quickly to officially transmit its opinion overturning Roe v. Wade to a federal appeals court so that the state can attempt to put its strict parental notification law into effect. Read More

President Joe Biden arrived in Israel on Wednesday for the start of a four-day visit to the Middle East. Read More

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is moving ahead with a $52 billion bill to boost domestic semiconductor production to address the chip shortage, telling senators it could head to the floor as soon as Tuesday, according to a source familiar with the matter. Read More

President Joe Biden was greeted in Israel on Wednesday by a row of Israeli leaders offering open palms to the President. Read More

Midway through Tuesday’s January 6 committee hearing, Ivanka Trump made an appearance. Read More

A statue of civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune has officially replaced a statue of a Confederate general in the US Capitol’s Statuary Hall. Read More

Former President Barack Obama sent an email to Ronny Jackson, a former White House physician who went on to become a GOP congressman, expressing his “disappointment” for his criticism of Joe Biden’s cognitive health in 2020, according to a copy of the email obtained by CNN. Read More