Senators voted to advance the House-passed stopgap spending bill on Friday as the deadline for a government shutdown inches closer. By a margin of 62-38, senators voted to advance the measure. Ten Democrats joined nearly…
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., are taking the ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ rallies out West next week – and advising supporters to mask up to participate. Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic, Fox…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., sidestepped questions on whether he had confidence in Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Friday. The top House Democrat was directly asked about Schumer twice during a hastily-announced…
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Trump blasts Biden’s DOJ: They tried to turn US into a ‘corrupt communist’ third world country
President Donald Trump accused former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice of transforming the agency into the ‘department of injustice,’ as they sought to turn the U.S. into a ‘corrupt communist’ country. ‘Our predecessors turned…
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Biden White House turned over Trump, Pence government cellphones to FBI as part of anti-Trump agent’s case
The Biden White House turned over government cellphones belonging to President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence to the FBI in May 2022 as part of a bureau probe into the aftermath of…
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Dr. Oz bats back Democratic attempts to paint him as a ‘snake oil’ salesman in Senate hearing
Dr. Mehmet Oz was slammed by his detractors during a Senate confirmation hearing Friday on Capitol Hill for promoting unproven alternative health treatments, and one Democrat called it the ‘most ludicrous wellness grifting’ he’d ever…
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DOD closes think tank arm marred by ‘inefficiency’ and criticized by GOP for ties to Trump-Russia probe
The Department of Defense has dissolved its Office of Net Acquisition – a think tank-like arm of the Pentagon that Republicans have claimed was involved in the Trump-Russia investigation. Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell said…
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is reportedly gearing up to cancel dozens of research grants about vaccine hesitancy by the end of the month, just four years after the Biden administration poured millions of…
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., wants federal agents caught destroying or concealing government documents to be eligible for a life sentence in prison. Luna, who is leading a task force on the declassification of government…
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‘We have never been this close to peace’ since Russia invaded Ukraine, Leavitt tells reporters
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Friday that ‘we have never been closer to peace,’ as the U.S. waits for Russia’s answer on a 30-day ceasefire agreement. Ukraine accepted the deal earlier…