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A $9,000 designer sweater made out of the ultrarare fur of a South American animal known as a vicuña will not be precisely a typical space of focus for a member of the U.S. Congress. But when Representative Robert Garcia, a first-term California Democrat and the primary Peruvian-born individual to serve within the House, noticed […] More

Is President Biden gaining within the polls? There have been indicators of it ever since his State of the Union handle final month, and a New York Times/Siena College ballot launched Saturday morning is the most recent trace. Donald J. Trump led Mr. Biden by one proportion level amongst probably voters nationwide, 46 p.c to […] More

Speaker Mike Johnson had a tough week. He is dealing with a revolt from some of the conservative members of his caucus that might price him his job. The prospect of offering further help to Ukraine continues to satisfy opposition. And it took three tries for the House to resume a warrantless surveillance invoice. Then, […] More

The federal judge presiding over Hunter Biden’s gun case in Delaware on Friday rejected Mr. Biden’s declare that he was being subjected to selective prosecution, saying it was “nonsensical” that the Biden Justice Department would goal the president’s son. Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, has filed a flurry of motions within the Delaware gun case […] More

Vice President Kamala Harris laid into former President Donald J. Trump over abortion rights at a marketing campaign rally in Arizona on Friday, accusing him of being instantly answerable for a courtroom resolution this week that upheld the state’s 160-year-old near-total ban on abortion. “Overturning Roe was simply the opening act,” Ms. Harris informed a […] More

In a serious turnaround, the House on Friday handed a two-year reauthorization of an expiring warrantless surveillance legislation that had stalled this week amid G.O.P. resistance — however solely after narrowly rejecting a bipartisan effort to limit searches of Americans’ messages swept up by this system. The invoice would prolong a provision of legislation often […] More

The Biden administration introduced an extra $7.4 billion in scholar mortgage cancellations for some 277,000 debtors on Friday, constructing on plans introduced earlier this week to offer debt aid for thousands and thousands of debtors by the autumn if new guidelines the White House has put ahead maintain. The newest spherical of aid displays a […] More

A coalition of a dozen liberal organizations and labor unions despatched a letter to the White House on Thursday night time demanding that President Biden finish army help to Israel till its authorities lifts restrictions on humanitarian help to Gaza, the most recent indicator of shifting mainstream Democratic opinion on the struggle. The group consists […] More

It was 1:53 a.m., and Peter Fink was on a barren mountain plateau close to Campo, Calif., passing out blankets to individuals from 4 continents who had arrived there beneath the quilt of night time. This was a nocturnal ritual for the 22-year-old, wearing a ball cap and a wool overshirt, whose perch — simply […] More

Speaker Mike Johnson might not have a purposeful majority in Congress, however his job is just like the Republicans who preceded him in not less than one respect: The duties embody the troublesome job of managing Donald J. Trump. Mr. Johnson on Friday will journey to Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s Florida property, to hitch him for […] More

The White House invited greater than 200 visitors to the state dinner hosted by President Biden for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday evening, together with enterprise executives, union leaders, athletes and distinguished Japanese Americans. Here is the total listing of these invited as offered by the White House. THE PRESIDENT AND DR. BIDEN HIS […] More

A latest Federal Aviation Administration audit of the manufacturing of the Boeing 737 Max raised a peculiar query. Was it actually acceptable for one of many aircraft maker’s key suppliers to be utilizing Dawn dish cleaning soap and a lodge key card as a part of its manufacturing course of? The reply, it seems, could […] More