The House voted on a pair of bills aimed at restoring abortion rights nationwide in Democrats’ first legislative response to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022 passed the House with a vote of 219-210 and is an updated version of …
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In 1972, long before she became a correspondent for 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl was a young reporter at CBS News. Over the last 50 years, she has interviewed every president since Nixon and covered countless political stories. Here, in her own words, she recounts and reflects on one of her …
Read More »Washington — A pair of Colorado agencies are examining claims from a political organization that GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert falsified mileage records from her time on the campaign trail in 2020 to reimburse herself and use the political contributions to satisfy state tax liens on her restaurant. The review from …
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Rehoboth Beach, Delaware — President Biden and first lady Jill Biden were transported to a safe location for about 30 minutes on Saturday after a small plane entered the secure airspace over the family’s house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The White House said in a statement that “a small private plane …
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Washington — Peter Navarro, who served as a top White House trade adviser to former President Donald Trump, claimed Monday that he received a subpoena from the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., to testify before a grand jury and turn over documents related to the Jan. 6 assault on …
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded Tuesday to the announcement by the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco that she can no longer receive communion because of her stance on abortion access. She noted that the Catholic church has not denied communion to lawmakers who back the death penalty — which also …
Read More »Former President Barack Obama said the way voters consume and share information is weakening democracies around the world and blamed the current information ecosystem empowered by social media companies for “turbocharging some of humanity’s worst impulses.” “One of the biggest reasons for democracies weakening is the profound change that’s taken …
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The Biden administration announced an extension of the federal student loan payment pause Wednesday, delaying the repayment of student loans until August 31. The payment pause was previously slated to end May 1. Roughly 37 million student loan borrowers have been in limbo for several months over whether the payment …
Read More »Senator Joe Manchin says he’ll vote to approve Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, greatly increasing the likelihood of her confirmation to the Supreme Court, The Democrat from West Virginia announced his support for Jackson in a statement Friday morning. Manchin said Jackson’s “record and career are exemplary” and he is “confident …
Read More »Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a request from Pennsylvania prosecutors to review a state supreme court decision that overturned Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction, leaving the ruling from Pennsylvania’s high court that freed him from prison intact. Prosecutors from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, asked the justices to …
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