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In the capital city of the United States, many walk around with titles and connections that are used to influence organizations, politicians and legislation that affects the lives of everyday Americans from coast to coast.  Thousands of people flock to the city to hold this type of power, but many fail to have the impact...

Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) took to the House floor on Thursday to read the names of young children killed by guns this year, but was forced to conclude his remarks due to time constraints after getting through only a fraction of the 600 names. Casten's comments came minutes after the House passed a bill to...

Airlines and travel groups cheered the Biden administration’s decision to lift its COVID-19 testing requirement for air travelers entering the U.S., a long-sought victory for the industry. The Biden administration on Friday announced that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will no longer require U.S.-bound travelers to show a negative COVID-19 test as of Sunday....

The shirt featuring definitions of the word "insurrection" worn by Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn on Thursday while he attended the first public hearing held by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot is available for sale. The first definition on Dunn's shirt describes an insurrection as “a violent uprising against...

The Washington Commanders fined its coach Jack Del Rio $100,000 for comments calling the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol a "dust-up" and comparing it to protests that occurred in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd, the team announced Friday. “After reflecting on the situation and circumstances, I have decided to fine...

Gun control activist David Hogg said in a Fox News op-ed Friday that he feels attitudes on gun control are “changing for what feels like the first time” following multiple high-profile mass shootings in the past month.  Hogg, who survived the 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., said more gun owners...

President Biden on Friday emphasized the importance of the House select committee hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, warning the same forces that led to the riot are still a threat to U.S. democracy. Biden, speaking at the Port of Los Angeles, opened his planned remarks about inflation by addressing the...

The Pentagon on Friday confirmed its first known case of monkeypox in the U.S. military. An active-duty service member based in Germany recently tested positive for the virus, a spokesperson for the Defense Department confirmed to The Hill. NBC News, which first reported the case, was told that the unidentified individual was seen and treated...

Three former Justice Department leaders at the center of former President Trump’s pressure campaign to put the might of the department behind his baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election will appear before the Jan. 6 panel on Wednesday. Former acting Attorney Jeffrey Rosen will testify before the committee alongside his deputy Richard...

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, reached out to almost 30 Arizona lawmakers following then-President Trump’s defeat in the state’s 2020 election, urging them to reject President Biden’s victory, The Washington Post reported Friday.  The Post reported last month that Ginni Thomas sent emails to two lawmakers six days after...

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has denied a request by Amazon to close off public access to a hearing on the validity of a union’s historic win at a Staten Island warehouse. The e-commerce giant, which is petitioning to overturn the Amazon Labor Union’s win, was seeking to restrict who could view the hearing,...

Last week, the Biden administration finally released the 2022 Trustees Reports for Social Security and Medicare. These annual reports to Congress — which detail the fiscal status of the Social Security Old-Age and Disability Insurance programs and Medicare Parts A, B, and D — highlighted the trusts funds for Social Security retirees and Medicare Part...

A combination of everyday chemicals found in people’s bodies may be associated with a worldwide plunge in male fertility, a new study has found. Sperm counts have dropped by more than a half in the past 40 years — a circumstance that the study’s authors attributed to “daily exposure to a mix of hormone-disrupting chemicals,” meaning...

The coffee chain, which opened its café bathrooms to the non-purchasing public after a high-profile incident in 2018, could soon be walking back its restroom policy in order to maintain a “safe environment” for patrons and staff, CEO Howard Schultz said.

Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo said in an interview on Thursday that he did not consider himself to be the on-scene incident commander during the shooting at Robb Elementary School last month. In an interview with the Texas Tribune — his first since 19 students and two teachers were killed in the May...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is pouring cold water on talk of a recession from one prominent albeit unexpected figure: Cardi B. “Do you know who Cardi B is?” CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Yellen on Thursday at the New York Times’s DealBook D.C. policy forum. “I mean, I don’t have that much time for her....

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, said there was a connection between far-right extremists groups and those around former President Trump leading up to and during the insurrection. In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper after the committee’s first hearing on Thursday, the...

Former President Trump knocked Ivanka Trump, his daughter and former White House adviser, after the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot included part of her testimony at its first public hearing Thursday night. A short clip of Ivanka Trump was shown during the hearing, during which she was asked about former...

The Biden administration announced Friday that it is ending a requirement that international travelers test negative for the coronavirus before coming to the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “has determined based on the science and data that this requirement is no longer necessary at this time,” a senior administration official...

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) this week argued Jesus did not say anything about homosexuality during his lifetime in response to a series of bills states have proposed or passed impacting LGBTQ individuals. Lieu spoke on the House floor Wednesday, noting two stories from The Washington Post in March and April about GOP lawmakers pushing for...

Attorneys for the Proud Boys members charged with seditious conspiracy this week on Thursday accused the Department of Justice of “mixing politics and criminal justice.” “Mixing politics and criminal justice is dangerous, and we have to run from it like fire,” said attorney David Smith, representing Proud Boys members Ethan Nordean, according to The Washington...

China this week vehemently denied a Washington Post report that it is covertly constructing a naval base in Cambodia. How to evaluate assurances of beneficent intent issuing forth from Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mouthpieces? Three bits of advice: Look at your map. Study past CCP practice. And remember that all such efforts to placate Asian...

Senators have wrapped up their work and left Washington, D.C., without reaching a deal on gun-violence legislation, disappointing Democrats who had hoped to issue a joint statement with Republicans on a framework. Democrats say they are “very close” to an agreement with Sen. John Cornyn (D-Texas), the lead Republican negotiator, but Democratic and Republican staff...

GOP senators, by and large, are holding off on taking public positions on the emerging Senate gun violence bill at the request of Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), the lead Republican negotiator. Cornyn wants to keep his GOP colleagues on the sidelines for the moment so he has a chance to negotiate a bill before the...

President Biden on Friday will sign a declaration on migration alongside other leaders from the Western Hemisphere laying out a framework officials said will aim to manage flows of migrants and refugees in the region. The Los Angeles Declaration, to be signed at the Summit of the Americas being held this week in the city,...