The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) sent a letter to the chairman and ranking member of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Wednesday, blasting Republicans for “false and misleading claims” ahead of a hearing next week featuring the union's head. AFT President Randi Weingarten is prepping her testimony for April 26 after she...
Senate hearing on tax policy and administration this week in the signaled big things afoot in the tax world. As millions of Americans raced to file their 2022 taxes ahead of Tuesday's deadline, senators sparred over how the IRS plans to spend $80 billion in additional funding — where no less than the future of...
Fat Joe is getting ready to raise his voice in Washington about health care pricing, meeting with lawmakers ahead of a concert with a cause behind it. The “Lean Back” rapper is headed to the nation’s capital next week on behalf of Power to the Patients, a nonprofit that advocates for healthcare price transparency. The...
Former President Trump leads a field of current and potential Republican presidential candidates in South Carolina by 22 points over his next-closest possible challenger, according to a new poll. A National Public Affairs poll, which was first reported by Politico, found that Trump holds a comfortable lead with support from 43 percent of the likely...
House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled their much-awaited go-it-alone debt limit bill, dubbed the Limit, Save, Grow Act. The proposal raises the debt limit by $1.5 trillion or through March 31, 2024, whichever comes first. It also proposes reverting discretionary spending for non-defense programs to fiscal year 2022. McCarthy maintains the bill would result in $4.5...
Republicans gave a preview Wednesday of a still materializing impeachment case against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, zeroing in on a 2006 law that requires a standard of perfection at the border. But what started as a fiery hearing filled with attacks on Mayorkas ended with promises to tone down rhetoric and move towards civility...
Jason Rezaian, a reporter once held hostage in Iran, wrote in an op-ed that The Wall Street Journal reporter Even Gershkovich, who was arrested in Russia, was "standing tall" amid his court proceedings Monday. Rezaian was the Washington Post's correspondent in Tehran from 2012 to 2016, where he was arrested and detained for 544 days...
House Republicans’ go-it-alone debt limit bill would pair a $1.5 trillion increase in the debt ceiling expected to last into next year with $4.5 trillion in savings, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Wednesday. The bill unveiled Wednesday, dubbed the Limit, Save, Grow Act, proposes reverting discretionary spending for non-defense programs to fiscal year 2022 levels,...
The White House on Wednesday threatened a veto of a resolution that would invalidate a rule issued last year by the Department of Veterans Affairs to offer abortions in certain cases and abortion counseling to veterans. In a Statement of Administration Policy, the White House warned the resolution "undermines patient safety and invites political interference...
President Biden's approval rating has slipped to below 40 percent, almost matching the lowest approval rating of his presidency, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The poll, published Wednesday, found that 39 percent of respondents approve of the job Biden is doing as president. The latest poll numbers are down 3 percentage points from last...
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton trolled Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday with a family photo from Disney, saying "I know whose side I'm on." Clinton posted the photo as DeSantis' ongoing feud with Disney was heightened after he said Monday that the stat might consider building a prison or another park near...
The Florida Board of Education on Wednesday approved an expansion of the Parental Rights in Education law, dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” by opponents, that will affect the K-12 teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) last month proposed to the board a rule that would only allow discussions of sexual...
President Biden will host the two Tennessee lawmakers who were once expelled from the state's legislature and a third who was subject to expulsion at the White House on Monday. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Wednesday that Biden would welcome Democratic state Reps. Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, and Gloria Johnson. The president spoke with...
Cases of strep surged this past winter, hitting the highest rate of infection since 2017. According to a new analysis from Epic Research, strep throat infections followed a seasonal pattern from Jan. 2017 through Feb. 2020, increasing in September and peaking in February each year. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020, cases of...
Elton John says the end of AIDS is within sight, urging Congress while appearing before a Senate committee to keep “our foot on the accelerator” and fund the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR.) “We are living in deeply troubled times with countless global challenges — all of which I know beckon your time...
The Biden administration has announced the launch of a new program aimed at giving uninsured individuals access to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments as the end of the national public health emergency nears and the financial obligations of covering these medicines shift to the private sector. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the...
The good news for Biden is mostly all the bad news surrounding Trump.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said the risk to people from falling parts of a spacecraft that is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere this month is low, putting the odds of harm to humans at approximately 1 in 2,467. The retired Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) spacecraft is expected to...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif) is hitting another early primary state: New Hampshire. Khanna, fresh off trips to Iowa and South Carolina this month, is expected to headline the annual McIntyre-Shaheen Dinner, a big draw for Democrats. Longtime Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley called Khanna a “longtime friend of the Granite State” in a release ahead...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the U.S. criminal prosecution of a Turkish bank for allegedly evading sanctions against Iran can move forward. The high court ruled that Halkbank, which is largely owned by the Turkish government, is not immune from facing the prosecution in U.S. courts under federal protections for foreign sovereigns. The...
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The boyfriend of the New York woman who was killed last Saturday after pulling into the wrong driveway said in an interview that they “thought we were at the right address.” In an interview with NBC News published on Wednesday, Blake Walsh told the media outlet that he and three other passengers — including his...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to announce his bid as a 2024 Democratic presidential nominee on Wednesday in Boston, and already appears to have sizable support from voters who cast their ballot for President Biden in 2020. In a USA Today/Suffolk University poll, 14 percent of voters who backed President Biden in 2020 said...
Oklahoma residents, and the state's governor, are calling for three McCurtain County officials to resign after they were allegedly heard discussing the potential murder of two journalists and the hanging of Black people in an audio recording.
He’s a billionaire businessman who’s been called a “patriotic philanthropist,” and now David Rubenstein is adding a new title to his ever-expanding portfolio: history-teaching TV host. The Carlyle Group co-founder is stepping in front of the camera as the face of “Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories with David Rubenstein,” a PBS series premiering Wednesdays...
