On the eve of a House hearing, the District appears closer than ever to achieving its once-fanciful goal of becoming the 51st state. Yet statehood advocates still face major obstacles.
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In Washington, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on reducing gun violence in the wake of the latest mass shooting in the United States.
Independent federal watchdogs who scrutinized the Trump administration for waste, fraud and misconduct ran into roadblocks on multiple fronts, according to public documents and people familiar with inspector general offices.
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Biden has insisted that nobody making less than $400,000 will face higher taxes, but some officials have suggested that level could apply to families, not individuals.
The most frequent votes against Biden’s nominees thus far — no surprise — have in most cases come from ambitious Republicans thought to be potential 2024 presidential candidates.
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This issue used to be more bipartisan. On March 22, it was cast as "radical" and involved D.C.'s lack of airports and landfills.
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Former U.S. attorney Michael Sherwin told CBS's “60 Minutes” that sedition was among the possible charges for some of the 400 arrested for their involvement in the Capitol riot.
The administration is dispatching officials to Mexico and Guatemala, sending sterner warnings not to come, and devising alternate pathways for legal entry. But it’s unclear if the flurry of activity will be enough.
Vice President Harris is traveling to Florida on Monday, and Biden will head to Ohio on Tuesday to highlight provisions of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan.
The group effectively flips a common Democratic complaint on its head by arguing that the House investigation of a six-vote contest won by a Republican serves to bolster false claims of election fraud by Trump and others.
An attorney for George Pierre Tanios vowed to fight for his release, saying that a trial could be a long way off.
The Biden administration is putting together its next major legislative effort.
But the justices said they also worry about the argument that any intrusion by government amounts to a “taking” of property.
While guiding the D.C. bureau of Hearst Newspapers from 1989 to 2009, he co-wrote prizewinning stories about ‘friendly fire’ casualties during the Persian Gulf War.
Follow the president-elect’s progress filling nearly 800 positions, among the 1,250 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.
Shalanda Young, who would be the first Black woman to head the Office of Management and Budget, is a strong front-runner. But some want Biden to pick an Asian American for the post.
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Harris words were spiked with emotion. But she didn’t let a warm bath of reassuring this-is-not-who-we-are overrun the truth.
Walsh, a friend of the president’s who was a favored candidate of organized-labor groups, will be the first labor secretary to come from a union background in nearly 50 years.
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The country will have more than enough vaccines to cover the entire population — much less adults who actually want a shot.
Democrats, in control of Congress and the White House, are trying to push statehood further than it has gone before.
Investigators keep bumping into the Trump political confidant — who is not accused of any crime — as they probe members of right-wing groups such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
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There are a lot of reasons for the push, but the irony is obvious.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev carried out the deadly 2013 attack with his brother, Tamerlan, who was later killed in a shootout with police.
