National Politics

The last time New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s name was on a primary ballot, in September 2018, more than 65% of Democratic voters backed him for a third term. In a defiant news conference the day after the vote, Cuomo brushed back suggestions that a progressive wave was sweeping the state. “Not even a ripple,”

The federal government has moved to stop any further risk of contamination at a Baltimore contract vaccine manufacturer where 15 million potential doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine were spoiled last month, telling rival drugmaker AstraZeneca it must move its production from the plant and find somewhere else to make its vaccine. The Emergent BioSolutions

The chairman of the union for US Capitol Police officers said the department is “struggling to meet existing mission requirements” and is calling on Congress to hire hundreds of new police officers to ensure the safety of the Capitol following the death of a Capitol Police officer in an attack on Friday. Capitol Police Union

Rep. Joaquin Castro, a member of the House Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Committees, said that when it comes to the security surrounding the US Capitol complex, there needs to be a balance between “safety and transparency.” “So you want to make sure the people of this country can show up and interact and at the

Siamak Namazi, an Iranian-American detained in Iran, marked 2,000 days — more than five years — in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison on Saturday and his family again urged the Biden administration to do everything it can to get him and his father home. Namazi was arrested and detained in October 2015 and a year later

Virginia and New Jersey this week joined other Democratic-led states moving ahead with new laws that would expand voting access — a stark contrast to the Republican rush in statehouses across the country to make voting more difficult. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, which has tracked voting measures across the country, 843 bills

Lawmakers in all but three states have introduced bills aimed at restricting ballot access, according to a new tally by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. Their latest report finds 361 bills restricting voting have been introduced in 47 states as of March 24. The total, released Thursday morning, marks a 43%

The Biden administration has placed around 28,000 radio ads in Latin America as part of a stepped-up campaign to discourage people from journeying to the US. But amid a dramatic spike in migrants to the southern border, many of whom have been lured by false information and rumors from smugglers, it’s not clear the ads

Two Republican congresswomen are revoking their endorsements of Texas GOP congressional candidate Sery Kim after she said that she didn’t want potential Chinese immigrants in the United States. “As the first Korean American Republican women to serve in Congress, we want to empower and lift up fellow members of the (Asian American and Pacific Islander)

Immediately after Major League Baseball announced it was moving this year’s All-Star Game out of Georgia in response to the state’s new law that makes it harder to vote, state Republicans behind the law blamed some of its leading Democratic critics — including Stacey Abrams. After acting on former President Donald Trump’s big lie that

President Joe Biden revoked a Trump executive order that authorized sanctions on International Criminal Court officials and lifted sanctions on two officials, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Friday. Blinken also said the State Department terminated another Trump-era policy to impose visa restrictions on certain ICC officials. “These decisions reflect our assessment