National Politics

I have not spent much time in this newsletter on the antics of Marjorie Taylor Greene or the scandal surrounding Matt Gaetz, two of the more controversial pushers of conspiracy theories currently serving in Congress. This is supposed to be about “What Matters,” and after the Trump years we all spent struggling over whether the

Families who lost loved ones to Covid-19 can now get help with funeral expenses from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, though the program got off to a bumpy start. The agency launched on Monday a hotline — 844-684-6333 — to apply for up to $9,000 in assistance per burial. While FEMA has aided families with

President Joe Biden will name Chris Inglis to the new position of national cyber director, the White House announced on Monday Inglis — whose legal first name is John but who goes by Chris — is a former National Security Agency deputy director. The Washington Post was first to report his appointment. The White House

The Biden administration has secured agreements for Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala to tighten their borders and stem the flow of migration, Special Assistant to the President for Immigration for the Domestic Policy Council Tyler Moran told MSNBC on Monday. “We’ve secured agreements for them to put more troops on their own border. Mexico, Honduras and

The Biden administration recently decided to keep the Trump-appointed US ambassador on the job in Moscow for the foreseeable future, two senior administration officials told CNN, demonstrating a willingness to nurture areas of stability in the US-Russia relationship after it got off to a tumultuous start. John Sullivan has been on the job for almost

Families who lost loved ones to Covid-19 can now get help with funeral expenses from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The agency launched on Monday a hotline — 844-684-6333 — to apply for up to $9,000 in assistance per burial. While FEMA has aided families with disaster-related burial costs in the past, the Covid-19 effort

Many members of the American military and their family members stationed outside the US are growing increasingly frustrated at the pace of the coronavirus vaccine rollout on overseas bases which is lagging behind the continental US. Military families based in Europe are fully reliant on military health clinics at their bases to receive vaccines. They

President Joe Biden plans to nominate Tucson, Arizona, police chief Chris Magnus to serve as commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection and Ur Jaddou to serve as director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, according to four sources familiar with the selections. Jaddou has been widely speculated as the incoming head of USCIS, which

In the week before last November’s general election, Iowa progressive activist Mitch Henry scoured neighborhoods on the east and south sides of Des Moines, in search of fellow Latino voters who had not yet returned their absentee ballots. “Some of these people were homebound, and voting was probably the last thing they were thinking about,

President Joe Biden plans to nominate Tucson, Arizona, police chief Chris Magnus to serve as commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection and Ur Jaddou to serve as director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, according to four sources familiar with the selections. Jaddou has been widely speculated as the incoming head of USCIS, which

President Joe Biden’s German shepherd, Major, will receive training after two biting incidents involving workers at the White House, according to first lady Jill Biden’s spokesman. “Major, the Bidens’ younger dog, will undergo some additional training to help him adjust to life in the White House,” Jill Biden’s press secretary Michael LaRosa told CNN. “The

Prominent Republicans rededicated themselves to Donald Trump’s creed of grievance, lies and demagoguery this weekend as President Joe Biden bolstered his counter bet on the use of expansive federal power to ease America’s crises. The dueling approaches reflect a nation torn not only by ideological divides and disputes over the role of government but one

Ramsey Clark, the former US attorney general and legal activist, has died at the age of 93, his granddaughter told CNN. Clark died Friday at his home in New York, his granddaughter Taylor Clark said. Clark served as attorney general in President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration in the late 1960s and is recognized for supervising