House Ethics Committee will keep Matt Gaetz report under wraps

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Washington — The House Ethics committee, meeting to consider the release of a report on its investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, did not reach an agreement on Wednesday afternoon, the committee chairman said.  The meeting came one week after the Florida Republican resigned from Congress following President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to select him for

How could the U.S. military be used for Trump’s mass deportation plan?

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President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to start the largest deportation effort in American history — his signature 2024 campaign promise — as soon as he takes office, signaling this week that he would enlist the help of the U.S. military for the massive operation to deport undocumented immigrants. Earlier this week, he shared a social

Lawmakers, Advocates Speak Out Against Mass Jailing of Hong Kong Activists

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Resistance to the Chinese Communist Party’s suppression in Hong Kong has garnered bipartisan support in the United States. WASHINGTON—U.S. Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) joined a group of pro-democracy Hong Kong activists to decry the sentencing of 45 political prisoners, imposed under the special administrative region’s draconian Article 23 based on China’s

Bob Casey Picks Up Just Four Votes After First Wave of Recounts, McCormick Campaign Says

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‘We expect this pattern to be repeated everywhere,’ McCormick campaign says Bob Casey (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Sen. Bob Casey (D.), who trailed Republican Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania by tens of thousands of votes going into a state-mandated recount this week, picked up just four votes in the counties that have finished the recount process so