Politics

Tens of millions of workers lost the right to paid sick and family leave at the end of December after Congress failed to extend them in the new relief package. Congress provided the pandemic-related benefit in March to give ill workers and parents whose children’s schools were suddenly closed a cushion. But lawmakers left out

A new Democratic-controlled Senate boosts the chances Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, 82, would retire this year and offer new President Joe Biden an early opportunity to put his imprint on America’s high court. Breyer, who before becoming a judge was chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, knows better than most how last week’s

Vice President Mike Pence will attend the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, according to a source familiar with the plans. CNN previously reported that Pence was planning to attend the inauguration, but he was waiting on an invitation. Word of Pence’s intention to watch President-elect Joe Biden take his oath of office in person spread

Vice President Mike Pence has not ruled out an effort to invoke the 25th Amendment and wants to preserve the option in case President Donald Trump becomes more unstable, a source close to the vice president says. The source said there is some concern inside Pence’s team that there are risks to invoking the 25th

Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania said Saturday he thinks President Donald Trump “committed impeachable offenses,” but said he is not certain attempting to remove the President from office with just a few days left in his term is the right course of action. “I do think the President committed impeachable offenses,” Toomey told Fox

White House officials pressured a top Georgia federal prosecutor to resign ahead of the state’s high stakes Senate runoff elections because President Donald Trump was upset he wasn’t pursuing Trump’s baseless allegations of widespread election fraud strongly enough, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported Saturday that

Members of Congress will be getting increased security while traveling through airports in the aftermath of the attack on the US Capitol Wednesday and as several senators have been harassed at airports, according to a notice sent to lawmakers Saturday. The US Capitol Police and Sergeant at Arms’ office said they will coordinate with other

Republican US Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois issued an apology Friday after invoking Adolf Hitler during a speech earlier in the week — comments that have been widely condemned and have some Illinois Democrats calling for her resignation. “I sincerely apologize for any harm my words caused,” the freshman congresswoman said in a statement Friday.

Six House Republicans were captured on video refusing masks offered by a colleague during the US Capitol insurrection on Wednesday. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, a Delaware Democrat, was shown approaching the group of colleagues and offering blue surgical masks. The video, shot from inside a safe room where the lawmakers gathered during the chaos, was

Pope Francis said in a recent interview that the violence that broke out at the United States Capitol building on Wednesday “must be condemned.” “Violence is always like this,” the Pope said in comments to Italy’s Canale 5 channel that CNN translated to English, adding that that there are violent outbreaks in every country’s history