Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) stepped to the microphone on the House floor Monday to speak about one of her latest pieces of legislation, as she has done many times before during her five years in Congress. But the voice that gave the speech wasn’t hers — it was from a text-to-voice application, an assistive device she uses to help her ...
Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) on Monday denounced racism and discrimination several days after he shared a video of counterprotesters at the University of Mississippi that included a shot of one participant making apelike gestures and noises in front of a Black woman. The move came after Collins on Friday shared on X a video of counterprotesters shouting down pro-Palestinian demonstrators ...
The Biden administration is expected to notify Congress this week whether it believes Israel has violated U.S. or international law in Gaza, a determination with significant moral and political stakes for President Biden. The forthcoming report, portions of which are expected to be made public after its transmission to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, arrives at a difficult time for U.S.-Israeli ...
Some Libertarian Party leaders are fuming over the party’s decision to have former president Donald Trump headline their national convention this month, with national committee members calling on the party to rescind the invitation. The choice to have the presumptive nominee from another party speak at the Libertarian Party’s nominating convention has inflamed growing schisms within the minor party. State ...
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) — the first Ukrainian-born member of Congress — is fighting to hold onto her seat Tuesday against a well-funded primary challenger who has criticized her record on aiding her homeland in its war against Russia. Spartz faces a crowded field of Republican opponents after she reversed her decision to not seek another term and reentered the ...
Declaring major new restrictions on border crossings. Canceling billions of additional dollars in student debt. Reclassifying marijuana as less dangerous. Declaring a climate emergency. With six months to go before the election, President Biden is taking or mulling these and other unilateral actions, the latest sign that he plans to fully deploy his executive powers in the home stretch of ...
As hundreds of police officers descended on UCLA’s campus last week, Bret Hamilton, a 31-year-old Twitch streamer who covers news and politics, documented their every move. He trailed the officers as they barreled their way through pro-Palestinian student protesters who were protecting an encampment at the center of the campus. Thousands of people watched Hamilton’s stream live as he narrated ...
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is weighing whether to join TikTok, the wildly popular video app he once tried to ban, and the decision has sparked discussion among his advisers in recent weeks, according to four people familiar with the matter. In 2020, the then-president said the app was a threat to national security because its parent company, ByteDance, is based ...
An obscure New York state election law that has rarely been prosecuted over five decades has been dusted off by Manhattan prosecutors and elevated to a prominent role in Donald Trump’s criminal trial over allegedly falsifying documents related to a hush money payment during the 2016 election campaign. The law — Section 17-152 of the state’s election code — makes ...
Everything seems to be celebrated with a day or a week or a month, often for pecuniary purposes. There’s National Yo-Yo Day, Handwashing Awareness Week, and National Picnic Month. That conglomeration of commemorations, however, should not dilute the importance of the time devoted to honor workers who serve all of us, all the time. This post appeared first on The ...