A number of Senate Republicans frustrated with the rush to pass a year-long spending bill before the end of the year are discussing whether to throw up a roadblock, raising the prospect of a government shutdown later this week. Republican … Read More
A new bill from a bipartisan group of lawmakers, if passed, would ban TikTok in the U.S. after years of broad concern across the Trump and Biden administrations about potential Chinese government influence on the company. Social media stocks like … Read More
CNN — The House voted on Thursday to pass sweeping legislation that would authorize $858 billion in national defense funding and rescind the US military’s Covid vaccine mandate. The measure passed with wide bipartisan support with a tally of 350 to 80. … Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House gave final approval Thursday to legislation protecting same-sex marriages, a monumental step in a decadeslong battle for nationwide recognition of those unions that reflects a stark turnaround in societal attitudes. President Joe Biden is expected … Read More
A power outage in Central North Carolina over the weekend has upended daily life, prompting officials to open at least one shelter and impose a nightly curfew potentially through the week while authorities investigate what left an entire county in … Read More
Florida is yanking $2 billion worth of state assets managed by BlackRock, escalating the GOP standoff with the world’s largest money manager over its ESG investment policies. The state treasury will freeze about $1.43 billion worth of long-term securities and … Read More
From Lorie Smith’s perspective, it’s not who the potential wedding-website customers are, it’s the message they’re asking her to create that is problematic. Smith, the owner of 303 Creative, said she’s wanted to design wedding websites since she was a … Read More
A motive in the shooting that claimed five lives remains unclear. Anderson Lee Aldrich had a fractured family life, according to the suspect’s father. As the 22-year-old arrested in the deadly rampage at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ club made an … Read More
A lake-effect snowstorm dumped several inches of snow over western New York early Friday, with snowfall totals expected to reach at least 4 feet through Sunday in the Buffalo area. The storm was blamed for the deaths of two people stricken … Read More
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday named former federal prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel for two ongoing criminal investigations by the Department of Justice of former President Donald Trump. Smith’s appointment came three days after Trump, a Republican, … Read More