First Lady Jill Biden will be cheering on her hometown Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday in the NFC Championship game against the San Francisco 49ers, according to the White House. Biden grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb, and the president often references her allegiance to teams from the city. Jill Biden made an...
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) urged a pair of senators that previously led talks on police reform to revive their push to pass a bipartisan reform package in the wake of the death of Tyre Nichols after he was beaten by police in Memphis. Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) led negotiations on a...
Officials on Sunday took to the political news shows to urge the revival of police reform legislation in the aftermath of video of Tyre Nichols' fatal beating in Memphis being made public. Nichols, a 29-year old Black man, was pulled over on Jan. 7 for alleged reckless driving. Video footage shows that officers violently pulled...
Former Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) said on Sunday that she “could not believe” what she saw in reaction to the police footage of the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols at the hands of five now former Memphis Police Department (MPD) officers. During an appearance on CBS’s “Face The Nation,” moderator Margaret Brennan asked Demings, a former...
A race for a Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin could determine the future of abortion rights in a state likely to play a crucial role in the 2024 presidential election. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has a 4-3 conservative majority, but conservative Justice Patience Roggensack is opting not to seek another term, evenly splitting the court...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Sunday said some Republicans are “OK with Islamophobia” in response to questions about efforts by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to block her from continuing to sit on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "You remember Donald Trump coming into my state and saying, 'Muslims, Somali refugees are infiltrating our country.' You remember [Rep.] Marjorie...
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Sunday denied the idea that his leadership has been weakened by the concessions he made to House Republicans in order to become Speaker, instead saying his position has been “strengthened.” “Maybe people didn't like what they saw, that we didn't win on the very first vote, but that was democracy,”...
Either Trump knew he lost the election and deceived millions of Americans with a “Big Lie" or he allowed himself to believe he won.
The White House hit back after Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he wants to “strengthen” Medicare and Social Security, arguing on Sunday that the House Republican leader and his conference actually want to slash spending to the entitlement programs. McCarthy said in an interview on CBS’s “Face The Nation” earlier Sunday that he wants to...
An equal percentage of Americans said they were concerned about classified documents found at the homes of both President Biden and former President Trump. In a new NBC News poll published on Sunday, 67 percent of respondents said they were concerned about classified documents being found at Biden’s Delaware home, with the same percentage saying...
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in an interview on Sunday ahead of talks with President Biden dismissed the idea that the U.S. would default on its debt. “We’re not going to default,” McCarthy said on “Face the Nation” on CBS. “This won't come to fruition until sometime in June.” "There will not be a default," McCarthy...
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Tax season is back, as the Internal Revenue Service has officially started accepting and processing tax returns as of last week.
The Congressional Black Caucus requested a meeting with President Biden to discuss national reforms to the justice system, especially law enforcement conduct. "The Congressional Black Caucus takes its role to advocate for the safety and protection of the people in our communities very seriously," Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC),...
Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) the top lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee, criticized the level of access that congressional leaders have had to classified documents found in the possession of current and former presidents and vice presidents, saying the press knows more about the nature of the materials than lawmakers do....
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Prospective GOP candidates for president are leaning heavily into education amid concerns over issues like parental rights and the politicization of school curriculums. Underscoring how critical an issue it is for Republicans, former President Trump unveiled his education platform on Thursday, calling for cutting federal funds to any education program that involves “critical race theory,...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he will meet with President Biden on Wednesday to discuss the debt ceiling. "We're going to meet this Wednesday," McCarthy told Margaret Brennan on CBS's "Face the Nation. "I know the president said he didn't want to have any discussions, but I think it's very important that our whole...
Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said on Sunday the discovery of documents in the homes of President Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence shows a "systemic problem" in the executive branch regarding classified files. "It's just really astounding because it shows that there's really a systemic problem here on the administration handling side of both...
A central fact of 21st century American political life is that we live in an increasingly distrustful society. Our distrust often manifests itself in the form of partisan enmity. But, as the struggle to install a Republican Speaker of the House clearly revealed, there is plenty of mistrust to go around — even between members of...
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said ahead of a meeting with President Biden this week that cuts to Medicare and Social Security are off the table in talks around raising the debt limit. McCarthy has said that Republicans want commitments to spending reductions in exchange for raising the debt limit, but has been unclear about what...
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on Sunday that he would not rule out a federal investigation into the Memphis Police Department, which has come under scrutiny after five of the department's police officers were charged with the second-degree murder of Tyre Nichols. "I would not rule that out," he told Martha Raddatz on ABC's "This...
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (D-Ill.) said that potential talks over policing reform legislation are likely to fail in Congress, even as the topic moves into the spotlight in the aftermath of Tyre Nichols's death at the hands of law enforcement in Memphis. “On the right, it’s all the sudden like we have to back the...
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who's representing the family of Tyre Nichols, said on Sunday that a police officer's race does not determine if they will use excessive force. "It is not the race of the police officer that is the determining factor, whether they're going to engage in excessive use of force, but it...
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) predicted on Sunday that former President Trump would not win the New Hampshire GOP primary in 2024, dinging the early performances of Trump's re-election bid and adding that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) would more likely come out on top. “He could (win), I don’t think he will,” Sununu...
