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After weeks of airing concerns the Justice Department may not be moving aggressively enough to prosecute former President Trump and others in his orbit, lawmakers on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack met the department’s request for assistance with an interesting response: Not so fast. The Justice...

A New York Supreme Court Justice late Friday approved a new congressional map in the Empire State, setting into motion some potential member-on-member primaries for Democrats. Among some of the changes made in the latest New York congressional map included placing the communities of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant fully in the 9th and 8th Congressional Districts respectively, instead of splitting them up.

President Biden on Saturday indicated that he would consider meeting with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un but only if he were “sincere” and “serious” about discussions related to the country’s nuclear program. “It would depend on whether he was sincere and whether it was...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday suggested that those who have suffered losses caused by Russia’s invasion in Ukraine could receive compensation through a multilateral agreement that would confiscate Russian assets held under the jurisdiction of other countries. “We invite the partner countries to sign a multilateral agreement and...

Reports are swirling that the White House is only weeks away from rolling out a plan to cancel some of the $1.6 trillion in student loan debt currently held by tens of millions of Americans across the country. Although President Biden has been vague about his commitment to use executive...

Ten years ago, our home states of Michigan and Indiana adopted right-to-work statutes. These laws state that no worker as a condition of employment needs to join nor financially support a union. In addition to providing workers greater freedom, scholarly research suggested that right-to-work laws are powerful economic development tools. Our new study lends credence to those conclusions.

President Biden has signed into law a far-reaching aid package for Ukraine that will provide $40 billion in security, humanitarian and economic assistance for the country as it battles the Russian war over the coming months. The White House said in a release on Saturday that Biden signed the measure...

President Biden on Saturday passed a bill intended to expand access to baby formula for certain families amid a shortage in the United States after Congress passed the legislation earlier this week. Biden signed the Access to Baby Formula Act of 2022 while in Seoul during a four-day trip to...

President Biden said Saturday the United States has offered vaccines to North Korea and China to help fight COVID-19 outbreaks, but neither has responded. “The answer is yes we’ve offered vaccines, not only to North Korea but to China as well,” Biden said at a joint press conference in Seoul with the South Korean president. “And we’re prepared to do that immediately. We’ve gotten no response.”

Pennsylvania’s second lady Gisele Fetterman stepped into the spotlight this week and took on a central role in the campaign of her husband, Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman, after he suffered a stroke. Gisele Fetterman has long been a presence on the campaign trail, with her husband frequently...

Rudy Giuliani, who served as a personal lawyer for former President Trump, met with members of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot for 9 hours, according to reports from CNN and NBC News. Two sources told CNN that Giuliani appeared virtually to the committee for a...

The Association of Flight Attendants Union President Sara Nelson slammed Elon Musk on Friday over allegations that he sexually propositioned a SpaceX flight attendant. According to a report published by Insider Thursday, Musk was accused of exposing himself to one of his SpaceX employees and asking her for sex. Later...

The vice president on Friday headlined an event hosted by the AAPI Victory Fund, a political group that rallies Asian American and Pacific Islanders to vote. The event marked AAPI Heritage Month and the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act that was signed into law by President Biden.

President Biden on Friday named John Kirby as the new National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications at the White House. “John Kirby is uniquely qualified for this position, and I look forward to bringing his background, knowledge, and experience to the White House,” Biden wrote in a statement.

The Biden administration will appeal a ruling by a federal judge that temporarily stopped the roll back of Title 42, according to a statement from the White House released Friday. “The Administration disagrees with the court’s ruling, and the Department of Justice has announced that it will appeal this decision,”...

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Friday that global food shortages due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict have reached the highest level of alarm. “I can tell you on a scale of one to 10, I’m probably at the 10 level of alarm, because this crisis has exacerbated...

Food prices could increase even more amid international export bans. We’ll also look at this week’s stock market carnage, IRS changes and the continued push for action on student loans. But first, learn more about how Europe and Russia are escalating their energy showdown amid soaring oil prices.

Russia and the West are engaging in an escalating energy sparring match as European countries seek to limit their dependence on the Kremlin because of its invasion of Ukraine. The latest development, on Friday, came as it was announced that Russia will cut off natural gas to Finland. Previously, members...