The House select committee investigating the deadly pro-Trump invasion of the U.S. Capitol will hold its first hearing Tuesday, the public kickoff of an already-polarizing probe meant to deliver a definitive report on the attempted insurrection. The panel will hear directly from four law enforcement officers about their struggles to defend the Capitol from the […] Read more
The Biden administration expressed concern Monday after sweeping anti-government protests in Cuba were forcibly dissolved at the direction of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermudez. Sunday’s protests, the largest the communist island has seen since the 1990s, come amid widespread frustration over a crippled economy and severe food shortages. The coronavirus pandemic is pushing the nation’s health-care […] Read more
Biden toured the city’s Municipal Transit Utility, and he delivered remarks focused on how the massive infrastructure package would benefit Wisconsin residents. “It’s going to make the world a difference for families here in Wisconsin,” Biden said. “More than a thousand bridges here in Wisconsin are rated as structurally deficient by engineers,” he said. “A […] Read more
Sweden’s parliament ousted Prime Minister Stefan Lofven in a no-confidence vote on Monday, giving the Social Democrat leader a week to resign and hand the speaker the job of finding a new government, or call a snap election. The nationalist Sweden Democrats had seized the chance to call the vote after the formerly communist Left […] Read more
President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he would nominate former Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to be the U.S. ambassador to Mexico and Morgan Stanley vice chairman Tom Nides to be ambassador to Israel. The nominations are among Biden’s first slate of political ambassadors. Until now, the only ambassadors the president had publicly announced […] Read more
Negotiations between the White House and a small group of Republican senators over a bipartisan infrastructure bill collapsed on Tuesday, weighed down by deep disagreements over what constitutes infrastructure and how much money should be allocated for it. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, W.Va., the lead Republican negotiator, said President Joe Biden had spoken to her […] Read more
The Defense Department is asking Congress for $715 billion in its fiscal 2022 budget, an increase of about $10 billion from what was allocated to the Pentagon in fiscal 2021. The White House released the broad details of President Joe Biden’s budget proposal on Friday for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1, which seeks a colossal $753 billion […] Read more
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. has convened a grand jury in his wide-ranging investigation into former President Donald Trump, The Washington Post reported Tuesday, citing two sources familiar with the probe. Prosecutors have been investigating Trump, the Trump Organization and its officers since at least 2018. The grand jury signals that they are ready to […] Read more
Millionaires who have called on the rich to pay more in taxes are launching protests in New York and Washington on Monday — Tax Day — including in front of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ homes. The effort is being organized by the Patriotic Millionaires, whose members boast annual incomes of over $1 million or assets […] Read more
Several progressive organizations have banded together to launch a new influence campaign to target groups, such as billionaire Charles Koch’s political network, which have pushed back on significant elements of President Joe Biden’s multitrillion-dollar agenda. Details of the campaign, called “Stop Deficit Squawks,” were first shared with CNBC. It launched Monday. Nearly 20 groups have […] Read more
