Politics

Karl Tapales/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted Wednesday to approve a bill that would give President Joe Biden the authority to ban TikTok in the United States despite objections from some lawmakers and advocates who say the measure could disrupt online speech freedoms. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told reporters on Tuesday […]

Attorney General Merrick Garland is sworn in before testifying before an oversight hearing to examine the Justice Department, in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2023. — Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — For the first time since his appointment of two special counsels to oversee investigations into both President Joe Biden and former President Donald […]

Digital Vision./Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — While calls for the U.S. to send F-16s to Ukraine have generated a lot of attention, a top Pentagon official told lawmakers Tuesday that the planes are not one of Kyiv’s top three requests and that there would be no advantage in the U.S. providing training now ahead of any […]

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Two federal law enforcement agencies found credible threats in the lead up to the events of Jan. 6 and also that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security did not follow procedures in the lead up to the day’s events, the Government Accountability Office found. The FBI and the U.S. […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — FBI director Christopher Wray on Tuesday spoke publicly for the first time on the bureau’s assessment that the COVID-19 virus “most likely” originated from a potential lab incident in Wuhan, China. He also faulted the Chinese government in an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier for, he said, trying to […]

Kamil Krzaczynski/Getty Images (CHICAGO) — The race for Chicago’s next mayor was shaved to just two candidates Tuesday while voters overwhelmingly stopped incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s attempt at a second term, making her the first incumbent mayor in 40 years to not win reelection. Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas and Cook County Commissioner […]

Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Top U.S. officials on Tuesday began their formal efforts to sound an alarm to Congress on a surveillance program — one they describe as “critical” to protecting national security — that is set to expire at the end of this year. The statute, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence […]

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Steve Bannon, a former adviser to Donald Trump, appeared in court Tuesday with a new crop of lawyers who promptly decried the “explosion” of evidence disclosures from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and asked for additional time to review them. “Now we have 32 terabytes of discovery,” defense attorney […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday defended giving Fox host Tucker Carlson exclusive access to nearly 42,000 hours of previously unreleased surveillance video from the day of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He said other networks and the American public would get access to the video as […]

Al Drago/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Tuesday appeared deeply skeptical of the legality of a White House plan to forgive $400 billion in federal student loans during the pandemic, even as the Biden administration vigorously defended its power and attacked the ability of six states to block it. Oral arguments […]