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…
Senate Republicans voted against advancing the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal on Wednesday in an early vote. But a key faction called for more time and said they can support the same agreement in four days.Republicans lined up to oppose the blueprint in a 49-51 vote on Wednesday afternoon. The measure fell short of the…
During a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Dr. Anthony Fauci got into a heated exchange about funding at the Wuhan virology lab. When Paul asked Fauci about his previous testimony on the issue, Fauci said, “Sen. Paul, you do not know what you…
Tuesday marks the sixth-month anniversary of President Biden’s inauguration, and the bipartisan infrastructure deal that he has spent half his presidency pursuing still isn’t coming together. Republicans have balked at a provision to buck up IRS tax enforcement in order to help pay for the package, but Senate Democrats are planning to move ahead Wenesday…
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