New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday blamed a “handful of conservative Democrats” and the Biden administration’s inaction for creating panic and allowing the federal eviction moratorium to expire.”There were a handful of conservative Democrats that threatened to get on planes rather than hold this vote, and we have to really just call a spade…
Former Rep. Mark Walker lashed out at the Club for Growth and suggested that former President Donald Trump was misled into endorsing his rival for the Republican Senate nomination in North Carolina during an interview with the Washington Examiner.Referring to the Club for Growth and pointing to the outcome of a special House election in…
President Joe Biden will announce Thursday that all civilian federal employees must be vaccinated against the coronavirus or to regularly test, socially distance and mask up on most travel, reported the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He said Tuesday that he was considering the move for federal employees.“That’s under consideration right now,”…
Republicans struck a fresh bipartisan infrastructure agreement with the White House, but it appears to be a little slimmer than the one brokered last month.Three people familiar with the negotiations confirmed to Insider that the amount of new spending in the agreement was slashed $30 billion. It now amounts to $550 billion instead of $579…
State Rep. Jake Ellzey will serve as the next representative of Texas’ 6th Congressional District after winning an all-Republican runoff to fill the seat of late U.S. Rep. Ron Wright.Susan Wright, Ron Wright’s widow, and Ellzey, who also served as a Navy fighter pilot, received the most votes in a May 1 special election that…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is nominating eight new leaders for U.S. attorney positions across the country, including in the office overseeing the prosecutions of hundreds of defendants charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.The nominees announced by the White House on Monday come as the Justice Department is continuing to round…
LOS ANGELES — In 1912, Willa and Charles Bruce, a young Black couple, purchased prime ocean-view property in Manhattan Beach. They built a resort and created one of the few small strips of beach in the Los Angeles area where Black visitors could enjoy the sand and water as well as hang out, eat and…
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam announced a 15-day lockdown in the capital Hanoi starting Saturday as a coronavirus surge spread from the southern Mekong Delta region.The lockdown order, issued late Friday night, bans the gathering of more than two people in public. Only government offices, hospitals and essential businesses are allowed to stay open.Earlier in…
A group of Democratic senators is asking for more answers after the Federal Bureau of Investigation shared details on its handling of a supplemental background investigation into Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was a nominee.Jill Tyson, assistant director of the FBI, said in a letter on June 30 that the agency had received…
Dozens of people gathered Thursday night to pay tribute to Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, who was assassinated earlier this month.Mourners were given a white rose and candles as they entered the Notre Dame d’Haiti Catholic Church in Little Haiti.“Today we are on the eve of the late president of Haiti’s funeral and we take this…