The Biden administration is under growing pressure to end the media blackout at Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities where thousands of child migrants are being held.Lawmakers, high-profile anchors and reporters, and press advocacy groups...
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that President Biden and former President Obama consult and still keep in touch regularly about a “range of issues.”During a press briefing on Monday, Psaki was pressed by a reporter about Biden’s...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has asked the Pentagon to temporarily house unaccompanied migrant children at two Texas military installations, the Department of Defense (DOD) confirmed Tuesday.HHS sent a request for assistance to...
"The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" returned to hosting live studio audiences this week after months of remote shows and appearances in the studio without members of the public in attendance.Monday's broadcast included an audience of vaccinated...
President Biden traveled to Ohio on Tuesday, the latest stop in a publicity blitz to sell a recently signed $1.9 trillion economic relief package that has been tailored toward the 2022 Senate map, where Democrats will be trying to cling to or build...
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) will recommend that President Biden nominate three Black lawyers to head U.S. attorneys offices in New York.Schumer said in a statement Tuesday that it would be the first time that African...
Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos earned an estimated nine figures in outside income while serving in the Trump administration, according to a Washington, D.C., watchdog. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)...
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) said on Tuesday that she would oppose President Biden's future nominees on the Senate floor over a lack of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) representation in his Cabinet."I am a 'no' vote, on the floor, on all...
A nonprofit report projected that the number of pedestrian deaths increased during the first half of 2020 despite a drop-off in driving in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) projected...
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) says he will discuss the Senate’s plan for addressing gun violence with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and other colleagues in the wake of mass shootings in Boulder and Atlanta.Schumer says his preference...
Music sales rose sharply in 2020 as more people turned to streaming services for entertainment during the pandemic, leading to billions of dollars in growth for the music industry, according to a report released Tuesday.The ...
Former first lady Michelle Obama joked this week that living in the White House for eight years prepared her for quarantine conditions amid the coronavirus pandemic.During an interview on Monday night's episode of "The Daily Show," host Trevor...
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) is defending his comments that "woke supremacy" is as bad as white supremacy, saying it was a response to being called a token for Republicans."My comments we...
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) is defending his comments that “woke supremacy” is as bad as white supremacy, saying it was a response to being called a token for Republicans.“My comments were a sound-bite-length reaction to yet another media figure...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y) are slated on Tuesday afternoon to host an event celebrating the 11th anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act.The eve...
New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D) announced that he tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday.Heastie posted on Twitter that he had been "feeling under the weather" when he got teste...
Authorities on Tuesday said that the 21-year-old gunman who opened fire in a Boulder, Colo. supermarket on Monday bought the gun he used less than a week before the shooting that left 10 people dead....
Voters in most states will head to the polls over the next 20 months to choose governors in what is likely to represent referenda on the patchwork responses to the coronavirus pandemic and the economic recovery ahead, wit...
Staff at The New York Times must now run outside work and projects past a committee to ensure it doesn't conflict with or distract from their jobs, the newspaper confirmed on Tuesday."The committee will primarily r...
Kim Janey became the first woman and the first Black American to serve as the mayor of Boston Monday night after former Mayor Marty Walsh (D) was confirmed by the Senate to head the Department of Labor.The historic...
Financial services company Charles Schwab terminated its membership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the company said on Tuesday.The move aligns with Charles Schwab’s decision to officially discontinue its political action committee earlier...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Tuesday that he will not “apologize for thoughts or prayers” that he sends to shooting victims.In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Cruz talked about the ways the United States could prevent shootings like the ones...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Tuesday that he will not "apologize for thoughts or prayers" that he sends to shooting victims.In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Cruz talked about the ways the...
Rush Limbaugh's syndicated radio talk show will go on with a series of guest hosts airing archived episodes following the conservative host's death earlier this year.Premiere Networks told ...
A news director for a National Public Radio (NPR) member station announced Tuesday that her father was one of the 10 victims of the previous day's deadly shooting in Boulder, Colo.Erika Mahoney, ...
