President Biden announced Tuesday that he will nominate a top union lawyer to serve on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).David Prouty, general counsel for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Labor 32BJ, has been chosen...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable and No Labels on Tuesday urged President Biden to continue infrastructure negotiations with Republicans in a joint statement.The groups launched a coalition of over 130 former government officials,...
An Atlanta-based Ikea faced backlash this week after employees and customers said that its menu created for Juneteenth was offensive.Multiple employees and customers complained that a menu, which included watermelon and fried chicken, was...
Vice President Harris will preside over the Senate when the chamber votes Tuesday on whether to proceed with a sweeping voting rights bill that is guaranteed to fail to advance, a White House official said.The Senate will vote Tuesday...
Two people died and four were hospitalized after a coronavirus outbreak at a government building in Florida.Manatee County Administrator Scott Hopes told CNN that the outbreak began in the IT department, and six people ended up being...
The Speaker's Lobby, a hallway lining the south side of the House chamber, is reopening to the media on Tuesday for the first time since it was restricted to only lawmakers and staff at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.Named for the portraits of...
The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it had seized more than 30 websites used by Iranian state media, citing sanctions that prohibit the organizations from obtaining services in the U.S. The agency said in a press...
Vice President Harris returned to the Senate chamber on Tuesday to cast a tiebreaking vote, confirming President Biden's nominee for the director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).Senat...
A 53-year-old backpacker died over the weekend on the Tonto Trail in Grand Canyon National Park amid extreme heat in the area.The national park confirmed in a Monday statement that Michelle Meder of Hudson, Ohio, was on a multi-day backpacking trip...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday it is forming five cross-jurisdictional firearm trafficking strike forces in an effort to reduce violent crime across the country. In a statement, the DOJ asserted that gun violence was a...
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will meet with White House officials on Wednesday to talk about the path forward on infrastructure.Schumer told Senate Democrats during their closed-door...
Britney Spears has been quietly petitioning to have her father, Jamie Spears, removed from his conservatorship role for years, The New York Times reports."She articulated she feels the conservatorship has become an oppressive and controlling tool...
One Nation, a GOP outside group, is launching a $1 million ad campaign pressing Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) to more vocally support the Senate filibuster as the issue splits Democrats in the upper chamber.The digital ad effort from the organization...
The Senate, for only the second time in its long history, took up the issue of statehood for Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, with a hearing where arguments for and against the country's potential 51st state were passionately aired.Held by the Senate’s...
The White House said on Tuesday they don’t see President Biden’s upcoming address on rising crime rates as conflicting with negotiations on Capitol Hill over police reform legislation.“There are negotiators that are continuing to make progress on...
Abigail Disney, heiress to the Walt Disney Company, argued Tuesday that the U.S. economy is in an "upside-down structure" in which some people are constantly working "to make ends meet," while wealthy i...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday revealed who she ranked first and second in New York City’s closely watched mayoral race: civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley and New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer.Her first pick doesn’t come as a...
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Tuesday that he will vote in favor of advancing a sweeping election bill after striking a deal with Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on a compromise proposal.Schumer,...
Bumble is giving its staff a week off to recharge and combat burnout."As vaccination rates increase and restrictions ease, we wanted to give our global teams a paid week off to rest and refresh after what’s been an incredibly challenging time...
The targeted killing of women of Asian descent at Atlanta-area massage parlors and the attacks on dozens of other Asian-Americans since as they went about their daily lives stand as horrific testaments to the danger and fear reverberating throughout...
National Guard officials may have to cut troops' training beginning in July if Congress does not reimburse the force for its months-long deployment protecting the U.S. Capitol, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth warned on Tuesday. “Without those...
GOP Sen. James Lankford (Okla.) on Tuesday vocalized opposition to making Washington, D.C., the 51st state in the union, arguing that the nation’s capital has not had voting representatives in Congress for some time and that “no one's compelled to...
Nearly 900 Secret Service agents tested positive for the coronavirus from March 2020 to March of this year, government documents obtained by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) through a Freedom of Information Act request...
The White House on Tuesday rejected criticism from some Democrats that President Biden hasn't focused his bully pulpit enough on voting rights ahead of a critical Senate vote on elections legislation."I would suggest ... those words are a...
Two Georgia counties have received payments to cover attorney fees incurred due to a lawsuit filed by former President Trump.Cobb and DeKalb counties have been paid funds to cover legal costs sus...
