House Republicans who blocked Kevin McCarthy’s ascension to the speakership repeated a mantra during the four-day leadership fight that ended after several rounds of dealmaking: Congress is “broken,” they said.It can sound like a talking point, one that’s been recycled year after year to bash the other side. This is a reliable fundraising tactic.But as…
President Joe Biden’s aides discovered a second batch of classified documents stored at a separate location than his private office at a Washington, DC think tank, NBC News reported Wednesday.The report said that it’s unclear how many documents were in the batch, where or when exactly they were discovered, or what their classification level was.Wednesday’s…
Something unusual happened in Shasta County over the past eight days.North State residents have slogged through three years of a drought that has killed crops, emptied lakes and forced severe water cutbacks on residents who just wanted to water their lawns or grow a few tomatoes.The drought is not over, but the amount of rain…
Former President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his wife, former Trump administration Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, for “unnecessary turmoil” within the GOP in the wake of House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (Calif.) failure to win the lower chamber’s Speakership. “There is so much unnecessary turmoil in the Republican Party,” Trump said,…
Hope Hicks said she and others in the Trump administration looked like “domestic terrorists” and would be unemployable after the Capitol riot, according to text messages released Sunday by the January 6 committee.Hicks, who served as White House communications director and a counselor to the president under former President Donald Trump, appeared to have been…
KINGSHILL, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) — President Joe Biden has pardoned six people who have served out sentences after convictions on a murder charge and drug- and alcohol-related crimes, including an 80-year-old woman convicted of killing her abusive husband about a half-century ago and a man who pleaded guilty to using a telephone for a…
After the presidential election in 2020, the White House press secretary was trying to avoid then-President Donald Trump because he was trying to convince her to discuss election fraud claims from the White House podium, according to testimony provided to the January 6 committee by a former Trump aide.The aide, Sarah Matthews, was serving as…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A new operator, Hard Rock International, started running the iconic Mirage resort on the Las Vegas Strip on Monday, following Nevada state gambling regulatory approval for a nearly $1.1 billion sale by former site owner MGM Resorts International, the companies said.Florida-based Hard Rock International, owned by the Seminole Tribe, said it…
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden and his family held a private memorial service Sunday to mark the 50th anniversary of the car crash that killed his first wife and their baby daughter.Biden, who had just been elected to the Senate in November 1972, was not in the car when his wife, 30-year-old Neilia,…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday once again drew international attention when he warned that if even one missile enters Russian territory, “hundreds” of warheads will respond.”I assure you, after the early warning system receives a signal of a missile attack, hundreds of our missiles are in the air,” Putin said from a summit in Kyrgyzstan,…
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