U.S. House votes to ban TikTok unless it is sold by China-controlled parent
In this 2020 photo illustration, the TikTok app is displayed on an Apple iPhone. The U.S. House on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 352-65 passed a bill that effectively bans TikTok unless the company splits...
View ArticleSchumer levels heavy criticism at Israel on U.S. Senate floor, calls for...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, on Thursday, March 14, 2024, criticized Israeli leadership in a speech on the Senate floor. In this photo, Schumer speaks with reporters...
View ArticleSuit alleging suppression of free speech met with skepticism at U.S. Supreme...
Protestors backing a social media case against the U.S. government rallied outside the Supreme Court on Monday, March 18, 2024, as arguments in the case were being heard inside. The lawsuit filed in...
View ArticleTrump, GOP-led states argue presidential immunity claim to Supreme Court
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and attorneys general from 18 states in amicus briefs filed to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday urged that Trump be granted blanket immunity, reversing a...
View ArticleMassive $1.2 trillion spending package that would avert a shutdown released...
A bipartisan agreement on government spending for the remainder of fiscal 2024 emerged just before 3 a.m. on Thursday, March 21, 2024. (Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — Congress released the...
View ArticleRepublicans return to D.C. amid dwindling majority, suspense over House...
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol Building after a vote on a funding bill that would avert a government shutdown on March 22, 2024 in Washington,...
View ArticleDivided U.S. Supreme Court wrestles with case of Pennsylvania man who joined...
Photo of Joseph W. Fischer of Pennsylvania at the “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021. The U.S. Supreme Court on April 16, 2024, heard arguments in a case centering on Fischer’s...
View ArticleU.S. House tries anew to force sale or ban for TikTok, a ‘spy balloon in your...
In this photo illustration, the TikTok app is displayed on an Apple iPhone on August 7, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo Illustration by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — U.S. House leadership has...
View ArticleNY prosecutor ties Trump hush money payments to campaign as criminal trial...
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives with his attorney Todd Blanche, right, in court for opening statements in his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court floats return to trial court for Trump in presidential...
Dozens of anti-Trump protesters gathered outside the U.S. Supreme Court on April 25, 2024, while the justices heard arguments about whether former President Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution...
View ArticleStar witness in Trump trial tells of plot to conceal porn star hush money...
U.S. Sens. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, and Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., listen as former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media outside Manhattan Criminal Court on May 13, 2024, during his trial for...
View ArticleGOP politicians rush to Manhattan to line up behind Trump as hush money trial...
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, and U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., watch as former U.S. President Donald Trump walks towards the courtroom for his hush money...
View ArticleProsecution rests in Trump hush money trial, after former fixer Cohen is grilled
Former President Donald Trump appears in court during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 20, 2024, in New York City. Trump faces 34 felony counts...
View ArticleTrump declines witness stand as testimony in his first trial concludes
Former President Donald Trump sits in court during the final day of testimony in his New York trial. Trump, the first former U.S. president to face trial on criminal charges, is accused of falsifying...
View ArticleAs Memorial Day arrives, bill unveiled in Congress to assist Purple Heart...
A Purple Heart medal is seen during a Purple Heart ceremony June 9, 2015 at George Washington’s Mount Vernon in Mount Vernon, Virginia. The U.S. Army held a celebration for its 240th birthday. (Alex...
View ArticleThe jury now will decide Trump’s fate in hush money trial, after lengthy...
Former U.S. Capitol Police officers Michael Fanone and Harry Dunn, who were overwhelmed by the mob at the Capitol on Jan. 6, are interviewed during former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in...
View ArticleDonald Trump found guilty on 34 felony counts in NY hush money trial
Former U.S. President Donald Trump walks to speak to the media after being found guilty following his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. The former president...
View ArticleFree direct filing of federal taxes may be offered soon throughout the U.S.
After the success of the Direct File pilot program this year, the IRS plans to make permanent the free filing of federal tax returns. (Phillip Rubino/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — Taxpayers across the...
View ArticleAngry Trump pledges to appeal ‘this scam’ conviction, Republicans vow resistance
Former President Donald Trump sits in court during the final day of testimony in his New York trial. Trump, the first former U.S. president to face trial on criminal charges, is accused of falsifying...
View ArticleProgressives urge Alito recusal from Jan. 6 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court
Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington speaks during a press conference outside the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia, at right, stands waiting...
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