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Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, was arrested Thursday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol while protesting in favor of voting rights legislation.Beatty, the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, was part of a small group urging the Senate to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, federal legislation that would curtail…

The wife of the assassinated president of Haiti has spoken out from her hospital bed in Miami, Florida, posting two images of herself as she recovers from gunshot wounds to her arms and leg.“I still don’t believe that my husband has gone like this before my eyes without saying a last word to me. This…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks to news reporters following the announcement of a bipartisan deal on infrastructure, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden’s drive for big new infrastructure investment got a…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Jose Manuel Restrepo, then Colombia’s minister of commerce, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Bogota, Colombia January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo By Nelson Bocanegra and Carlos Vargas BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia will seek to raise at least $3.97 billion through a new tax reform measure to be proposed to Congress,…

Former President Donald Trump was desperate to beat then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 election, telling aides, “I can’t lose to this f—— guy,” according to a new book excerpt published in The Washington Post.In “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year,” The Post’s Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks to news reporters following the announcement of a bipartisan deal on infrastructure, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate returned on Monday to one of its most…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a call to “save American democracy,” the Biden administration on Thursday unveiled new efforts to help protect voting rights amid growing complaints from civil rights activists and other Democrats that the White House has not done enough to fight attempts by Republican-led state legislatures to restrict access to the ballot.President Joe…

© Reuters. Kaseya’s webpage is seen through magnifying glass in front of displayed binary code in this illustration taken, July 6, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration By Raphael Satter and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Tuesday the ransomware attack centered on the Florida information technology firm Kaseya seems to have inflicted only “minimal…

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden holds up team a jersey given to him during a ceremony honoring the members of the 2020 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 2, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lama 2/2 By Jeff Mason (Reuters) – Most…

Former President Donald Trump questioned his successor’s patriotism during an Independence Day celebration in Florida.Trump said President Joe Biden “is perhaps the most unpatriotic president in American history” because his administration canceled a planned Fourth of July fireworks celebration at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota due to concerns about the transmission of COVID-19.”We had fireworks…