Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

YOU WONT BELIEVE: 31 - You Need To See This

Democrat and Republican in Capitol shouting match over gun safety: ‘Calm down? Children are dying!’

New York Democrat Jamaal Bowman had been giving a furious speech to reporters in a corridor when Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie tried to butt in

The Independent UK

"They’re all cowards!”

Dem explodes, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie tried — but failed — to push back

Salon

Jan. 6 panel’s video depositions become tantalizing tool for probes

WASHINGTON — In a larger-than-life video shown during the first minutes of the second hearing of the House Jan. 6 select committee, former Attorney General William Barr called claims of election fraud from his onetime boss, former President Donald Trump, “bullshit.”

Tribune News Service

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Jan. 6 panel's video depositions become tantalizing tool for probes - Roll Call

Lawmakers and potential witnesses will have to consider video depositions and technological advancements that grab public attention.

Roll Call

Media plays a dangerous game with Trump

How many expeditions into Trumplandia will the media have to take?

Salon

White House Opposes Congressional Effort To End COVID Vaccine Mandate for Foreign Travelers

More than four months after President Joe Biden declared the pandemic to be over, the White House is fighting efforts to lift lingering and nonsensical COVID rules.

Reason

Thomas Massie will wear his ticking debt clock to the State of the Union

“My design specification was to instill anxiety among my colleagues,” said the Kentucky Republican and MIT grad, who designed the pin himself.

Roll Call

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

House Republicans move ahead with effort to oust Omar from panel

The U.S. House is set to vote as early as Wednesday on a resolution to remove Democrat Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee as Speaker Kevin McCarthy persuaded at least two Republican holdouts to support the move.

Tribune News Service

Big tech antitrust push in Congress is blunted by GOP-led House

The new GOP House majority is turning away from last year’s bipartisan efforts to rein in the dominance of the largest tech companies with a change in leadership on a key panel.

Tribune News Service

Trump's Facebook and Instagram Accounts To Be Reinstated

Plus: Massie vs. McCarthy?, Hawley bill would ban TikTok in the U.S., and more...

Reason

There’s a threat to press freedom in prosecuting Julian Assange

The conduct at the center of the case against Julian Assange is indistinguishable from what professional journalists do every day when they reveal information that the government wants to conceal.

Chicago Sun-Times

'Real' Journalists Recognize That Prosecuting Julian Assange Poses a Grave Threat to Freedom of the Press

The Justice Department’s discretion is the only thing that protects them from a similar fate.

Reason

House defends power to fine Republicans who flouted mask rule

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court sounded ready Wednesday to back the power of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats to fine three Republican members who violated a pandemic-era rule that required lawmakers to wear a mask on the House floor.

Tribune News Service

"Knives out for McCarthy" after midterms

"Haven't seen this level of anxiety and loathing" in years, a D.C. reporter said

Salon

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Roll Call

House defends power to fine Republicans who flouted mask rule - Roll Call

A federal appeals court sounded ready Wednesday to back the power of the House to require lawmakers to wear a mask on the floor or be fined.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

‘Breaking our way.’ Kentucky's Comer, Massie eye GOP House gains, weigh priorities after midterms

WASHINGTON — Rep. James Comer of Kentucky said he expects Republicans to gain 30 House seats in Tuesday’s midterm elections, easily clearing the six necessary for the GOP to capture control of the chamber.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

No debate: Why Kentucky Republicans are ignoring their Democratic challengers

WASHINGTON — Rand Paul has largely ignored Charles Booker this year – except for a moment when his Democratic challenger for U.S. Senate had the chance to command statewide attention.

Reason

Proposed Bill Would Protect Journalists Like Julian Assange From Espionage Charges

A senator and two congressmen team up to help protect whistleblowers from vindictive prosecution.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Reason

America's Meat Shortage Is Self-Inflicted and Fixable

How can it be that with so much cattle in America, we sometimes can't buy meat?

Salon

GOP turn on McConnell over gun reform

Fourteen Republicans are coming under the wrath of their own party for breaking ranks on common-sense gun reform

Tribune News Service

House passes gun bill with age restriction, other proposals

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed a package of gun violence prevention measures on a mostly party-line vote Wednesday evening, even as the bill faces little hope of clearing the evenly divided Senate.

Roll Call

House passes gun bill with age restriction, other proposals - Roll Call

The House of Representatives passed a package of gun control measures on a mostly party-line vote Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

House Judiciary Committee advances gun control bill

WASHINGTON — Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee advanced a bill Thursday with swath of gun control proposals, setting up a floor vote as early as next week.

The Independent UK

Kentucky GOP congressman calls for ending gun-free school zones in response to Uvalde

Comes during a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee on legislation to combat gun violence

Reason

Thomas Massie Has a Point When He Says Congress' Antisemitism Resolution Has a Free Speech Problem

Massie was the only House member to vote against a resolution demanding social media companies do more to track and suppress antisemitic content.

1 … 29 30 31 32

People

Marjorie Taylor Greene

Alexandria OcasioCortez

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations