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The five sitting Supreme Court justices attending the State of the Union are being joined by two of their predecessors, the first time a retired justice has attended the president’s address in 26 years. Retired Justices Stephen Breyer and Anthony Kennedy, two regular attendees during their years on the bench, have again returned to the…
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FTX has chased politicians like Nancy Pelosi to return donations given before the crypto giant's collapse. They now have a deadline of February 28 to pay.
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An Ex-Staffer Accusing George Santos of Sexual Assault Is Being Drowned Out By…Everything Else
There’s yet another development in the sometimes funny, mostly dark, always sketchy story of Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y,), the karaoke-singing alleged drag queen who appears to have fabricated the entirety of his resume and lied about his mom dying in 9/11. Over the weekend, Derek Myers, a prospective staffer in Santos’ congressional office, sent a letter to the House Ethics Committee and filed a police report alleging that Santos sexually assaulted him on Jan. 25. Shortly after Myers says he rej
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2023 State of the Union address: Will Boebert and Greene behave? Here's how to watch
Joe Biden's State of the Union address should be a dignified affair. Last year, Reps. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene made it anything but.
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Biden Taunts China’s President Xi Days After Balloon Shootdown
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Republicans read Constitution on House floor
House Republicans read the Constitution on the House floor Tuesday morning, following through — though delayed — on a pledge Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) made after the GOP won control of the chamber last year. McCarthy in November — before winning the Speaker’s gavel — wrote on Twitter that lawmakers would “read every single word of the Constitution aloud…
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Social Security Snafu: No, You Won’t Be Receiving Extra $200 Each Month
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Biden explains his objection to sending Ukraine F-16 fighters
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- Reuters
Texas senator proposes bills to reduce shootings, monument for victims
LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) -A Texas state senator on Tuesday proposed a package of legislation aimed at reducing mass shootings, like the one at a Uvalde elementary school that killed 19 kids and two teachers last year. Senator Roland Gutierrez, a Democrat whose district includes Uvalde, made appropriations requests of $2 billion in spending for expanding mental healthcare access and another $2 billion for increasing school security. Gutierrez said that next week he would introduce legislation in the Republican-dominated body, bills aimed at curtailing access to guns and ammunition, but did not provide details.
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White House's Karine Jean-Pierre confronted with polls showing Americans don't trust Biden
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Texas state senator arrested for drunk driving
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Pivot point: Joe Biden faced a different chapter of his presidency in his State of the Union
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- The Commercial Appeal
Former Memphis police officer took two photos of Tyre Nichols after beating, sent to five people
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Kevin McCarthy Didn't Stand When Biden Referred To Jan. 6 In State Of The Union Speech
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