Politics

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks highlighting the benefits of Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework, at La Crosse Municipal Transit Utility, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, U.S., June 29, 2021. Kevin Lemarque | Reuters President Joe Biden traveled to La Crosse, Wisconsin on Tuesday to promote his recently announced $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure framework. There, Biden toured the

In this article NWGC The seal of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission hangs on the wall at SEC headquarters in Washington. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters A Minnesota man criminally charged this month with securities fraud in a scheme to hijack dormant shell companies also may have recently seized control of a Florida penny-stock company,

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) talks with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Drew Angerer | Getty Images A bipartisan infrastructure proposal reached by President Joe Biden and a group of senators has regained its footing. Even so, Democrats’ plan to push it through Congress

The Department of Justice is suing Georgia, alleging a recently passed election law violates the Voting Rights Act’s protections for minority voters, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday. “Where we see violations of federal law, we will act,” Garland said at a news conference. Garland said Georgia’s election reform law was enacted “with the purpose of

This aerial view, shows search and rescue personnel working on site after the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, north of Miami Beach, on June 24, 2021. Chandan Khanna | AFP | Getty Images The death toll has risen to nine people after a 12-story condominium building collapsed in Florida, Miami-Dade Mayor

Vice President Kamala Harris made her first visit as vice president to the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday, where she toured immigration facilities and met with young women. Speaking to reporters after her tour, Harris said the border trip reinforced the need to address the root causes of the surge in undocumented migrants from Central America.

James Simons Brendan Smialowski | Bloomberg | Getty Images Billionaire and Democratic megadonor James Simons has hired a new team of lobbyists as he seeks to influence a federal government now led by President Joe Biden. Simons supported Biden during the 2020 election. Simons, according to a new lobbying report, recently hired five powerful lobbyists,

Then-President-elect Donald Trump along with his son Donald, Jr., arrive for a press conference at Trump Tower in New York, as Allen Weisselberg (C), chief financial officer of The Trump, looks on, January 11, 2017. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images Lawyers for former President Donald Trump were warned this week by the

The criminal sentencing of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd began Friday afternoon with emotional victim impact statements from Floyd’s family members. Hours before, a judge denied a request for a new trial for Chauvin, whose brutal killing of Floyd, a Black man, whose videotaped death on May 25, 2020,

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani arrives at his apartment building after the suspension of his law license in Manhattan in New York City, New York, June 24, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Rudy Giuliani did not show up for a court hearing Thursday in a $1.3 billion defamation case against him that took

President Joe Biden declared Thursday that the White House has struck an infrastructure deal with a bipartisan group of senators after discussing the massive plan to improve the nation’s roads, bridges and broadband earlier in the day. “To answer the direct question: We have a deal,” Biden said at the White House. The president, flanked

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris attends an infrastructure event addressing high speed internet in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, June 3, 2021. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Vice President Kamala Harris plans to visit the United States’ southern border with Mexico on Friday, nearly three months after

Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Mark Calabria testifies on Capitol Hill during a committee hearing on “Housing Finance Reform: Next Steps” in Washington, DC, September 10, 2019. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images The Biden administration will replace the leader of a massive U.S. housing finance agency following the Supreme Court’s ruling

In this article EL Stephen Ross, chairman and majority owner of the Related Companies, attends the grand opening of phase one of the Hudson Yards development on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan, March 15, 2019 in New York City. Drew Angerer | Getty Images A super PAC funded largely by real estate billionaire Stephen

Connecticut state Sen. Alex Kasser, D-Greenwich. Source: Daniel Schubert Connecticut state Sen. Alex Kasser announced Tuesday she is resigning, saying her ability to do her job has been harmed by a bitter divorce battle being waged by her husband, Seth Bergstein, a top Morgan Stanley executive. In her resignation statement posted on Medium, the Democrat

A polling site is seen as early voting in New York City’s mayoral primary election has started as of Saturday which voters can choose up to five candidates in New York City, United States on June 13, 2021. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images The seemingly endless race to replace New York Mayor

US President George W. Bush (L) speaks before signing the joint congressional resolution authorizing US use of force against Iraq if needed, 16 October 2002, at the White House in Washington, DC. From L are House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Joyce Naltchayan | AFP

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden attend a meeting at Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland June 16, 2021. SPUTNIK | via REUTERS To comprehend the audacious ambition behind President Joe Biden’s Europe trip this week, think of him less as U.S. commander-in-chief and more as the democratic (small “d”) world’s physician-in-charge.