The pending Senate battle over the next Supreme Court nominee shows us how important winning Congress’ upper chamber is this fall. A president who doesn’t have the Senate backing him cannot fully use the power of the presidency to influence the government’s direction.
An 18-year-old wins $25,000 on her very first lottery ticket
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Want more inspiring, positive news? Sign up for The Good Stuff, a newsletter for the good in life. It will brighten your inbox every Saturday morning. Now that she had turned 18, Sloan Stanley decided she'd do so...
Biden administration considers opening additional tent facilities in Arizona amid influx of migrants
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The Biden administration is considering opening additional temporary border facilities in Arizona to manage the influx of migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border, marking the latest move to address capacity issues...
Capitol Hill has picked Shalanda Young to lead OMB — but Biden hasn’t yet
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Congressional Democrats are pushing President Joe Biden to nominate Shalanda Young to lead the Office of Management and Budget after Neera Tanden withdrew her nomination amid opposition in the Senate. Young is Bide...
Beto O’Rourke is criss-crossing Texas, igniting Democratic hopes he’ll run for governor
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Beto O'Rourke is on the road again, criss-crossing Texas and broadcasting his stops in small towns live. His efforts have been focused on the crises that have gripped the state: Widespread power outages brought on ...
Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren quietly releases massive social media report on GOP colleagues who voted to overturn the election
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Washington Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren has quietly posted a nearly 2,000-page report documenting social media posts by her Republican colleagues who voted against certifying results of the presidential election on Ja...
Senate gears up for marathon effort in push for Covid relief
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Washington The Senate is bracing for a marathon effort and a late night of voting on amendments before lawmakers take a final vote on President Joe Biden's $ 1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill -- it's just not yet cl...
Schumer announces all-female Senate sergeant-at-arms team following US Capitol riot
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday announced an all-female Senate sergeant-at-arms leadership team, after the previous sergeant-at-arms resigned as part of the fallout from the January 6 insurrection ...
Biden criticizes Texas and Mississippi for lifting restrictions: ‘Neanderthal thinking’
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President Joe Biden sharply criticized states such as Texas and Mississippi for lifting Covid-19 restrictions against pleas from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other top public health official...
Pence pushes false election fraud claims in denouncing Democratic reform bill
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Former Vice President Mike Pence is seizing on a Democratic-led initiative to streamline election standards to again push false claims of voting irregularities in one of his first public statements since leaving off...
The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2022
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Senate elections typically happen only every two years -- except sometimes they're three years in a row. Democrats picked up two seats in November 2020. They won two more in Georgia runoffs in January 2021. And in ...
Senate confirms Cecilia Rouse to be Biden’s top economist
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The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden's nomination of Cecilia Rouse to chair the Council of Economic Advisers. The vote on Tuesday was 95-4. Rouse, a labor economist and dean of the Princeton School of Public and...
‘We’re not keeping up’: Biden administration scrambles to house children crossing the US-Mexico border alone
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The Biden administration is racing to find space for the growing number of families and unaccompanied children crossing the US-Mexico border alone, which may include opening more temporary facilities and providing f...