Former President Obama exhorted House Democrats to celebrate their accomplishments on the campaign trail, rather than dwell on the setbacks they’ve faced, as they try to defend their slim majority in the midterm elections this year. Obama, the featured keynote speaker during the caucus’ virtual messaging summit Thursday, told lawmakers …
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Washington — President Biden is considering more than a dozen candidates to succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, a source familiar with the process told CBS News, with a pool of prospective nominees that ranges from the federal bench to academia. The White House confirmed last week …
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Sheldon Silver, New York’s once-powerful Assembly speaker who was sentenced to prison after decades in office on corruption charges, has died in federal custody. He was 77. The cause of death was not known. He died Monday at Nashoba Valley Medical Center, located near the Devens Federal Medical Center where …
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Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri will discuss steps the popular photo sharing app is taking to keep teenage users safe on the platform during a Senate subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for Meta, the new name for the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. The testimony, Mosseri’s first …
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Washington — Democrats in Congress reached a deal on Tuesday to lower the price of prescription drugs as part of President Biden’s $1.75 trillion social spending plan, overcoming a key sticking point in ongoing negotiations over the president’s domestic policy agenda. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the agreement, and …
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Former New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has officially pivoted to a political career, launching his campaign on Wednesday to be Oregon’s next governor. Kristof, 62, grew up on a farm in Yamhill County, southwest of Portland, and has moved back to his family’s farm in recent years. Kristof left …
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As lawmakers work to scale back President Biden’s $3.5 trillion social spending plan, a proposed extension of the monthly child tax credit payments passed by Democrats in the American Rescue Plan may be cut short. Democrats are trying to trim the Build Back Better bill to roughly $1.75 to $1.9 …
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Andrew McCabe, the former FBI deputy director fired by President Trump’s Justice Department shortly before he was set to receive his pension, has been cleared in a settlement with the Justice Department. McCabe was fired by then Attorney General Jeff Sessions just 26 hours before he was set to retire. …
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Washington — The Justice Department’s decision to sue the state of Texas over its law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy elevated the fight over abortion rights, but the department’s legal challenge will not be free of hurdles, including some that tripped up abortion providers in their quest to …
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Washington — President Biden hailed the Senate’s bipartisan passage of a $1 trillion infrastructure bill on Tuesday, saying its success “proved that democracy can still work” while urging lawmakers to push forward on a second, much larger spending plan. The final vote in the Senate was 69 to 30, with 19 Republicans …
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