Vice President Kamala Harris is in Tucson, Arizona, on Friday to cast former President Donald Trump as the architect of the restrictive abortion bans emerging nationwide in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down the federal right to an abortion. Harris is making her second trip this year to the battleground state,
Washington — The Democratic National Committee paid at least $1.7 million to law firms representing President Biden during special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into his handling of classified documents, according to federal spending disclosures. Hur ultimately declined to prosecute the president, but wrote in a lengthy report earlier this year that Mr. Biden “willfully retained
House Speaker Mike Johnson to attend event with Donald Trump amid speakership threat – CBS News Watch CBS News Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is attending an event with Donald Trump in Florida at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Johnson’s speakership is under threat from members of his own party, so he may be seeking
Washington — The House on Friday passed a bill to reauthorize a crucial national security surveillance program, two days after a conservative revolt prevented similar legislation from reaching the floor. The bill reforms and extends a portion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act known as Section 702 for a shortened period of two years, instead
Washington — Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo said he will not comply with a subpoena issued by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of their ongoing investigation into ethics practices at the Supreme Court. The subpoena was issued to Leo by Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin on Thursday, months after Democrats on the
A photo op was worth a thousand words for House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday as he stood alongside former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, presenting a united front at a critical time in Johnson’s tenure to announce a new GOP “election integrity” bill. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president,
The Biden administration on Friday said it’s canceling $7.4 billion in student debt for 277,000 borrowers, with the recipients scheduled to receive emails today to alert them to their loan discharges. The latest effort extends the debt relief provider under President Joe Biden after the Supreme Court last year blocked his administration’s plan for broad-based student