
House leaders stare down another nail biter week as spending bills sow divisions
Republican leadership is bracing for yet another week where they'll need to unite a splintered conference -- this time on a series of spending bills that will set the tone for an autumn showdown with the United States Senate.
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Officials and lawmakers push for more government transparency on UFOs
Three retired military veterans are testifying Wednesday at a House hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena -- commonly known as UFOs -- warning that the sightings are a national security problem and that the government has been too secretive about them.
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DeSantis staffer who shared video featuring neo-Nazi symbol no longer with campaign
A staffer for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is no longer with the 2024 presidential campaign just days after he retweeted a video featuring White supremacist imagery.
1970-01-01 08:00

Exclusive: Trevor Reed is expected to make a full recovery after being wounded in Ukraine
Former US Marine Trevor Reed is expected to make a full recovery after being wounded in battle approximately two weeks ago serving alongside Ukrainian forces fighting Russia, a source close to Reed told CNN.
1970-01-01 08:00

Giuliani concedes he made defamatory statements about Georgia election workers
Rudy Giuliani concedes he made defamatory statements about Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss in an effort to resolve their lawsuit against him and to satisfy a judge who has considered sanctioning him.
1970-01-01 08:00

Third associate of Steve Bannon sentenced to 63 months in prison for border wall scheme
A third associate of Steve Bannon was sentenced to 63 months in prison for the "We Build the Wall" online fundraising fraud scheme, according to a news release from the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
1970-01-01 08:00

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to address GOP-led House Judiciary committee Wednesday
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will face House Republicans who have been making the case to potentially impeach him over his handling of the US-Mexico border in a House panel hearing Wednesday.
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Hunter Biden to plead guilty to federal tax crimes on Wednesday
President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden is set to plead guilty Wednesday to two federal misdemeanors for not paying taxes on time, a major step toward concluding the highly scrutinized Justice Department investigation into his troubled finances.
1970-01-01 08:00

McCarthy again marches to Trump's tune by invoking Biden impeachment inquiry
The House Republican majority is hitting its stride as a fully weaponized arm of Donald Trump's bid for a second White House term as it seeks to drag President Joe Biden into a swamp of so far unsubstantiated corruption allegations.
1970-01-01 08:00

Federal judge vacates Bowe Bergdahl's conviction and dishonorable discharge
A federal judge has vacated Bowe Bergdahl's dishonorable discharge from the US Army, roughly seven years after the former soldier was convicted of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after abandoning his outpost in Afghanistan in 2009.
1970-01-01 08:00

Top election security expert fired by Trump confirms he spoke with special counsel
A top election security official who was fired by President Donald Trump weeks after the 2020 election has confirmed to CNN that he was interviewed in recent months by the special counsel investigating Trump's efforts to overturn the election.
1970-01-01 08:00

Conservative legal activist rebuffs Democratic request for information on fishing trip with Justice Samuel Alito
Conservative legal activist Leonard Leo is refusing to provide Democratic lawmakers with information regarding his interactions with Justice Samuel Alito, who attended a luxury fishing trip with him in 2008 and took a ride on a private jet owned by a conservative hedge fund manager.
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