01-04-2023

The last time an election for the Speaker of the House vote went beyond the first ballot happened in 1923. Now, exactly 100 years later, it has happened again as political chaos hit Capitol Hill on day two of the new Congress.

01-04-2023

Christians will make up an overwhelming majority of those serving in the House and Senate during the 118th Congress, according to new analysis from The Pew Research Center.

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)
01-04-2023

Retail pharmacies, including local drugstores and major chains, are now able to offer abortion pills if they agree to new rule changes made Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration.

 House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., left, confers with Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., during a news conference about the appropriations process at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
01-03-2023

Unable to elect Republican leader Kevin McCarthy as the new House speaker Tuesday, Republicans adjourned for the day in disarray as the party tries to regroup from his historic defeat after a long, messy start for the new Congress.

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12-28-2022

Before Congress begins its new session next week, House Democrats want one newly elected Republican barred from taking office.  

12-22-2022

President Biden signed the massive $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill for 2023 into law Thursday night while he was vacationing in St. Croix. In the past two weeks, lawmakers worked to cram as many priorities as they could into the sprawling package, which was the last major bill of the current Democrat-controlled Congress.

Twitter helped Democrats at the FBI's request
12-21-2022

The latest batch of Twitter's corporate emails released this week by new owner Elon Musk reveal the FBI paid Twitter almost 3 and half million dollars over the course of two years for suppressing tweets damaging to Joe Biden and the Democrats. 

President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (AP Photo)
12-20-2022

For the first time in history, a congressional committee is calling on the Justice Department to prosecute a former president. Monday the January 6th Committee wrapped up its controversial tenure by issuing four criminal referrals against President Donald Trump.

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12-20-2022

The latest installment from Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" reveals new information confirming that the FBI not only pressured the social media site to suppress reports about Hunter Biden's laptop, but that it also paid Twitter employees millions of dollars to do so. 

Migrants stand near the U.S.-Mexico border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Pandemic-era immigration restrictions in the U.S. known as Title 42 are set to expire on Dec. 21. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
12-19-2022

The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking an order that would lift pandemic-era restrictions on asylum seekers. But it is leaving open the prospect of lifting the restrictions by Wednesday. The order Monday by Chief Justice John Roberts comes as conservative states are pushing to keep limits on asylum seekers that were put in place during the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. 

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