The Senate passed bipartisan legislation Tuesday to protect same-sex marriages, an extraordinary sign of shifting national politics on the issue and a measure of relief for the hundreds of thousands of same-sex couples who have married since the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision that legalized gay marriage nationwide. The bill, which would ensure that same-sex and […]
Al Roker, 68, missing amid ‘scary’ illness
NBC News is preparing for another installment of its annual tradition, the Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting. But the TV special event will look different this year. Al Roker, longtime meteorologist for NBC’s Today, will be missing from the special, the Rockefeller Center announced on its website. Roker announced a struggle with blood clots earlier this […]
Biden’s Secret Service cars burst into flames
Five cars used by President Joe Biden and his family, operated by the U.S. Secret Service during their Thanksgiving visit to Nantucket, were engulfed in flames on Monday and destroyed according to reports. The cars were in the parking lot of the Nantucket Memorial Airport. The fire happened just one day after the president and […]
Top Dem congressman dies at 61
U.S. Rep. A. Donald McEachin, D-Va., died Monday after a battle with colorectal cancer, his office said. He was 61. Tara Rountree, McEachin’s chief of staff, said in a statement late Monday: “Valiantly, for years now, we have watched him fight and triumph over the secondary effects of his colorectal cancer from 2013. Tonight, he […]
Mike Pence breaks with Trump, fires attack
Former Vice President Mike Pence and some establishment Republican Party allies attacked former President Donald Trump on Monday for dining with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist and the rapper formerly known as Kanye West days after launching his third campaign for the White House. Pence, in an interview, called on Trump to apologize and said the […]
Congressional leaders endorse Biden’s plan to avert rail strike
President Joe Biden on Monday asked Congress to intervene and block a railroad strike before next month’s deadline in the stalled contract talks, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said lawmakers would take up legislation this week to impose the deal that unions agreed to in September. “Let me be clear: a rail shutdown would devastate […]
Ted Cruz drops illegal immigration bombshell
by Frank Holmes, reporter Even in Washington, D.C., where hypocrisy is a second language, Democrats have gone too far this time. On the one hand, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser is begging President Joe Biden for relief from the migrant “crisis,” which she says her city’s been suffering ever since Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent a […]
State judge to decide on wolf hunting limits in Western U.S.
A Montana judge said he would decide Tuesday whether to continue temporary limits he placed on wolf hunting or to restore quotas and hunting methods pending a trial over changes in the way the state estimates the size of the wolf population, which informs hunting quotas. Monday’s court hearing in Helena comes as Montana and […]
Karine Jean-Pierre scrambled after this bad moment
President Joe Biden claims to have taken more executive action on firearms in his first 18 months than any other president. And on Thanksgiving, Biden condemned “the purchase of semi-automatic weapons,” a huge category of firearms. He called it “sick” that American voters would exercise their Second Amendment rights. After that, the president sent White […]
Kevin McCarthy ‘doomsday’ vote, warn conservative leaders
Republican Party representatives are being warned that they must vote for Kevin McCarthy to take over as Speaker of the House… or they face a “doomsday” scenario. According to some Republican leaders, the battle lines drawn over McCarthy threaten the entire Republican Party agenda — and could give Democratic Party leaders a chance to form […]
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