WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin placed 100 National Guard troops on standby to help protect the Capitol ahead of Saturday’s rally supporting people charged in the deadly Jan. 6 pro-Trump insurrection. Hundreds of far-right demonstrators are expected in the District of Columbia for the “Justice For J6” rally, a reference to the Jan. 6
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California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks to members of the media after meeting students at Melrose Leadership Academy during a school visit in Oakland, California on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. Stephen Lam | San Francisco Chronicle | Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called his decisive victory in this week’s recall election
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. Getty Images Congress faces two massive tasks over the next month: funding the U.S. government and increasing the debt ceiling. The two concepts are distinct but often confused, especially when their deadlines are close together as they are in the fall of 2021. Lawmakers have until the end of
French President Emmanuel Macron attends a press conference with Latvia’s Prime Minister (unseen) after their meeting on September 30, 2020 in Riga, Latvia, during Macron’s official visit to Latvia and the Baltic region. GINTS IVUSKANS | AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON — France, still mad about the submarine deal Australia struck with the United States
Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr., commander of the U.S. Central Command testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during its hearing on the “U.S. Central Command and U.S. Africa Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for FY2022 and the Future Years Defense Program in Washington on Thursday, April 22, 2021. Caroline Brehman
WASHINGTON — After a rough summer, President Joe Biden is getting ready to spend the autumn fighting for tax increases on the wealthy and corporations. The surge of the Covid-19 delta variant, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, hurricanes, wildfires, evictions and inflation have all battered Biden’s approval ratings and exhausted White House staff. Now he
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell directed staff to review the central bank’s ethics rules for appropriate financial activities after disclosures that several senior central bank officials made multiple multimillion-dollar stock trades in 2020, while others held significant investments. News of Powell’s inquiry broke after Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent 12 letters to the Fed’s regional bank presidents demanding stricter
Jelena McWilliams, chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), speaks during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will unveil this week a new investment fund backed by corporate giants that
WASHINGTON — Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley placed two phone calls to his Chinese counterpart in the waning months of Donald Trump’s presidency to secretly reassure Beijing that the United States would not attack the country, a spokesman for Milley confirmed Wednesday. The calls were first reported in the forthcoming
United States Capitol Police arrested a California man who had multiple knives in his truck near the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Source: Capitol Police Twitter. A judge Tuesday ordered a California man to be held without bond, a day after he was arrested near the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where police say
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tried to change the subject to taxes Tuesday after facing tough questions about his stance on the Biden administration’s new Covid vaccine mandates. “We can talk tax, too, if you wanted,” McCarthy told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday after a lengthy grilling in which he denied sending mixed messages about
Gavin Newsom is the second California governor to ever face a recall election and is likely to be the first to survive one. All eyes are on the Golden State ahead of Tuesday’s recall election, a fast-approaching deadline for registered voters in California to vote by mail or in person. The Democratic governor has spent
[The stream is slated to start at 2 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to face tough questions from the House Foreign Affairs Committee during testimony Monday about the Biden administration’s withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan Blinken
Attorney David Boies, representing several alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein, exits federal court following a bail hearing for Jeffrey Epstein, July 15, 2019 in New York City. Drew Angerer | Getty Images One of America’s most prominent law firms is struggling to hold on to talent. Legal powerhouse Boies Schiller Flexner has experienced a rapid
Prince Andrew The Duke of York arrives at the Headquarters of CrossRail in Canary Wharf on March 7, 2011 in London, England. Dan Kitwood | Getty Images Prince Andrew of Britain was served with a lawsuit filed by an American woman who accuses him of having sex with her when she was underage, during the
Gavin Newsom’s job is on the line much sooner than he had hoped. The California Democrat is facing a Sept. 14 special election that could make him just the third state governor in U.S. history to be removed from office through a recall. Democrats have long held a reliably tight grip on California’s statewide political
Evacuees board an Atlas aircraft bringing them from Afghanistan to the United States from the Ramstein Air Base on August 26, 2021 in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany. Andreas Rentz | Getty Images U.S.-bound flights carrying evacuees from Afghanistan are on hold after four cases of measles were diagnosed among Afghans who had already arrived in the country,
A person shows US dollars outside an exchange office, remained close since August 15th, following their reopening after Taliban takeover on September 04, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Bilal Guler | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images WASHINGTON — $290 million every day for 7,300 days. That’s how much money America spent on 20 years of war