Schumer’s challenge: Wooing moderate Democrats on $3.5 trillion Biden plan
Sen. Maggie Hassan, a New Hampshire Democrat who is running for a second term next year, has been working behind the scenes to help craft a bipartisan infrastructure deal that could be popular in her swing state.
House GOP’s 10 Trump critics raise piles of cash in battle to hang on to their seats
Former President Donald Trump made his return to campaign politics last month by trekking to northern Ohio to take revenge on one of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach him: Rep. Anthony Gonzalez.
Indiana restarts pandemic unemployment benefits after judge’s order
Indiana once again began paying pandemic unemployment benefits -- including the $300 weekly supplement -- on Friday after the state Court of Appeals earlier this week denied the state's attempt keep them halted.
US intel assessments on Afghanistan warns of ‘accelerating pace’ of Taliban hold on country
US Intelligence assessments paint an increasingly bleak picture of the Taliban's quickening advance across Afghanistan and the potential threat it poses to the capital of Kabul, warning the militant group could soon have a stranglehold on much of the country in the wake of the US withdrawal of troops, multiple sources briefed on the intelligence
Congressional Black Caucus Chair Joyce Beatty arrested at voting rights protest
Rep. Joyce Beatty was arrested by US Capitol Police on Thursday afternoon after participating in a voting rights protest that culminated in a march inside the Senate Hart Office Building atrium.
What’s in the restrictive voting bills being pushed by Texas GOP lawmakers?
Texas Democrats' dramatic trip to Washington, DC, this week stemmed from uniform opposition to two voting bills being pushed by state GOP lawmakers: Senate Bill 1 and House Bill 3.
Biden says Cuba is a ‘failed state’ and calls communism ‘a universally failed system’
President Joe Biden said on Thursday that Cuba is a "failed state" and called communism a "failed system" as protests play out against the Caribbean nation's repressive regime.
Manchin meets with Texas Dems and says he wants pared-down voting rights bill
Sen. Joe Manchin, a key vote in the effort to pass federal voting rights legislation, on Thursday said he and a group of Texas House Democrats, who have fled their state in an effort to block restrictive voting bills, have come to a "total agreement" on what they want, which is "basically to protect voting
Liberals struggle with Breyer’s refusal to retire
Justice Stephen Breyer's latest signal, in comments made exclusively to CNN, that he is not yet ready to retire from the Supreme Court is angering progressive advocates and leading legal observers to wonder whether the left's pressure campaign on Breyer backfired.