The long-awaited vote was held on the last day before the Senate’s summer recess and was expected to fail. The U.S. Senate on Aug. 1 failed to advance a bipartisan deal to expand the Child Tax Credit after most Republicans voted against it. The Tax Relief for Working Families and Americans Act was unveiled in
Washington — In the largest international prisoner exchange since the Cold War, 24 prisoners were traded on a tarmac in Ankara, Turkey, on Thursday in a deal involving seven countries. The complex deal, which secured the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan, was months in the making, with
Over the last two weeks, Democrats have engaged in a bizarre effort to bait, bully, and badger Donald Trump into debating Kamala Harris. Bizarre because we watched this same gambit play out just a few months ago with disastrous results for the very same Democrats. It was only May of this year when Joe Biden
As senator, Harris decried the ‘ongoing pollution crisis along California’s border with Mexico’ Kamala Harris tours border, 2011 (Office of the Attorney General of California/Wikimedia Commons) As a California senator, Kamala Harris sought to protect the U.S.-Mexico border from an urgent “crisis”—but it wasn’t the immigration crisis. On April 30, 2019, the presumptive Democratic presidential
Hundreds of the most prominent U.S. environmental organizations are waging war on bipartisan permitting legislation moving through the Senate, despite the bill’s provisions fast-tracking green energy development. The Energy Permitting Reform Act—introduced last week by Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee leaders Joe Manchin (I., W.Va.) and John Barrasso (R., Wyo.)—is the product of months
Republicans said Google violated the law with its routing of emails. A federal judge on July 31 tossed a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) over Google routing the RNC’s emails to recipients’ spam folders. The RNC failed to state a claim under California Unfair Competition Law (UCL) or for intentional interference with
Trump and his attorneys repeatedly asked Merchan and other courts to terminate the gag order, arguing that it violated his constitutional right to free speech. A New York state appeals court has denied former President Donald Trump’s request to lift a gag order imposed in his business records falsification case, with the order remaining in