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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats promised earlier this week to pursue stronger ethics rules for the Supreme Court in the wake of reports that Justice Clarence Thomas participated in luxury vacations and a real estate deal with a top GOP donor. Republicans made it clear they strongly oppose the effort. Sen. Dick Durbin, the Democratic [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will end most of the last remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week when the national public-health emergency for the coronavirus ends, the White House said earlier this week. Vaccine requirements for federal workers and federal contractors, as well as foreign air travelers to the United States, will end [...]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Joe Biden scrapped expedited asylum screenings during his first month in office as part of a gutting of Trump administration border polices that included building a wall with Mexico. Now Biden is preparing his own version. Donald Trump's fast-track reviews drew sharp criticism from internal government watchdog agencies as the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat-turned-independent long known for his centrist views, voted for Joe Biden in 2020, but as Biden's re-election campaign begins, Lieberman is preparing to recruit a third-party candidate capable of defeating the Democratic president. "Centrists and moderates feel that he's governed more from the left than they [...]
LAS VEGAS — A bipartisan congressional group from Nevada and California has asked the Biden administration to fast-track federal funds for a private company to build a high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area. All six of Nevada's elected federal lawmakers and four House members from California sent the letter to [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Growing anger at the FBI from both parties in Congress has become a major hurdle for intelligence agencies fighting to keep their vast powers to collect foreign communications that often sweep up the phone calls and emails of Americans. Key lawmakers said they won't vote to renew the programs under Section 702 [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will open migration centers in Guatemala and Colombia for asylum seekers heading to the United States-Mexico border, in a bid to slow what’s expected to be a surge of migrants seeking to cross as pandemic-era immigration restrictions end, federal officials said last week. The migration centers are part of an [...]
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Sexual abuse in the nation's federal prisons must be rooted out, the Justice Department's second-highest-ranking leader told prison wardens gathered for their first nationwide training since revelations that a toxic, permissive culture at a California prison allowed abuse to run rampant. The gathering included wardens from the country's 122 federal prisons. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama flew to California to dedicate a national monument to Latino labor leader Cesar Chavez, a group of the activist's relatives were invited to pose for photos with the president. Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Chavez's granddaughter, hung back. As a member of Obama's staff, she had traveled with the official [...]
ATLANTA (AP) — An effort to create a national testing program for technology central to the nation’s elections will be launched later this year, aiming to strengthen the security of equipment that has been targeted by foreign governments. So far, states have been left on their own to evaluate the technology that provides the backbone [...]