Chinese President Xi Jinping is not expected to travel to Washington next month as an inauguration guest of President-elect Donald Trump, according to two sources familiar with the planning. CBS News was first to report that Trump had personally invited Xi to the swearing-in ceremony shortly after Election Day. China’s ambassador to the U.S. and
New Jersey residents and lawmakers are pushing for more information about the mysterious drone sightings, including some near military installations. A federal official said Thursday that the FBI is the lead agency investigating along with the New Jersey state police. Local law enforcement are also investigating. What have authorities said about the drone sightings? New Jersey
The new rule announced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is estimated to eliminate $5 billion of such fees annually. Banks will be severely restricted in charging overdraft fees starting October next year, owing to a new ruling announced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Thursday. The CFPB said the rule closed what
President Joe Biden on Dec. 12 commuted the sentences of about 1,500 people convicted of crimes and pardoned 39 people. This follows his pardoning of his son, Hunter Biden, earlier this month. The number of people to whom Biden granted clemency was “the most ever in a single day,” according to a White House statement.
The House version of the bill passed in November, with strong bipartisan support. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y) said on Dec. 11 that he will bring the Social Security Fairness Act before the Senate for a vote. The bill removes rules that reduce Social Security benefits in certain cases, such as those receiving pensions
The bill allows for the addition of dozens of judgeships over a decade. Biden has pledged to veto the legislation. The Republican-led House of Representatives approved a bill on Dec. 12 to expand the number of seats in the federal judiciary. The bill, known as the Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved (JUDGES) Act of
‘I don’t want to get into the bathroom issue,’ the president-elect said. ‘Because it’s a very small number of people we’re talking about.’ President-elect Donald Trump stated that there were more important issues than the transgender bathroom debate when he was asked about the topic in a Time magazine interview published Thursday. Trump was named