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US Capitol rioter and so-called “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley should be given organic food while in a Washington, DC, jail, a federal judge said Wednesday, after Chansley went on an apparent hunger strike last week claiming non-organic food was against his religion and sickened him. DC District Court Judge Royce Lamberth decided the accommodations could

House Democrats are taking steps toward removing Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments, and the top Republican in the House is adopting the sort of confrontational partisan rhetoric that has put the controversial Georgia Republican in the spotlight. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, made the first move toward stripping

The Justice Department on Wednesday dropped an affirmative action lawsuit the Trump administration had filed against Yale University last year accusing the school of discriminating against Asian American and White applicants in its undergraduate admissions process. The lawsuit was originally filed in October when the department, led by then-Attorney General William Barr, alleged: “Yale rejects

Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, is expected to defend her impeachment vote and confront her critics during a tense GOP conference meeting under way Wednesday where some Republicans want her to apologize. Cheney was one of a handful of House Republicans to cross party lines and vote to impeach former President Donald

Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, is expected to defend her impeachment vote and confront her critics during a tense GOP conference meeting later Wednesday where some Republicans want her to apologize. Ahead of the meeting this afternoon, some Republicans want Cheney to express remorse for her comments over her impeachment vote. “If

Paul Whelan, a US citizen who has been detained in Russia for more than two years, is sick and has struggled to reach the US Embassy, his brother said Wednesday. “Paul has been able to speak to our parents by phone,” David Whelan said in a statement. “Paul is sick – he’s indicated he has

Even as President Joe Biden works to shore up Democratic support for his $1.9 trillion Covid-19 stimulus plan and the country remains in a pitched fight against the virus, all the political world is talking about these days is Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Georgia Republican congresswoman’s series of extreme and intolerant comments and social media

The Biden administration is opening an overflow facility for unaccompanied migrant children apprehended at the US-Mexico border, the federal agency tasked with the children’s care told CNN in a statement. The Health and Human Services Department will reopen a facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, that can accommodate about 700 children and can be expanded if

Rep. Jamie Raskin, the lead impeachment manager, told House Democrats on Wednesday that former President Donald Trump’s legal filing responding to the House’s impeachment amounted to “absurd constitutional arguments being offered by the President,” according to a source on the call. The Maryland Democrat’s comments on a caucus call Wednesday offered a preview of how

A deal has been reached in the Senate in principle on a power-sharing agreement that had prevented Democrats from taking control of the committees, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday morning. Democrats took control of the Senate in January after winning a pair of US Senate seats in Georgia and the White House. However,

President Joe Biden is relying on his Capitol Hill years to convince former colleagues to move quickly on his debut legislative effort, waging an intensive push for the sweeping Covid-19 rescue package he hopes can garner Republican support. He’s told Democrats over a series of meetings he’s willing to reconsider some aspects of his plan,

President Joe Biden told House Democrats on a conference call Wednesday he is open to narrowing the distribution of $1,400 stimulus checks in his Covid-19 relief proposal to focus on poor and middle-class people, according to audio of the call obtained by CNN “I think we can better target the number,” he said, according to