Emergency talks between Somalia’s divided political leaders have ended without agreement on how to proceed with elections, a government minister has announced just days before the president’s mandate expires. Somalia is likely to miss a February 8 deadline to choose a new president after days of negotiations between the central government and federal states collapsed […] Read more
Congress will take its first votes Tuesday on the path toward passing Democrats’ $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. The Senate voted in a 50-49 party line vote to advance a budget resolution, and the House will follow with a procedural vote on a budget measure later Tuesday. Once passed in both chambers, it will allow Democrats to […] Read more
After members of his first legal team quit, former President Donald Trump has acquired a pair of new lawyers to represent him in his looming second impeachment trial. Two trial lawyers, David Schoen and Bruce Castor Jr., will head the legal team defending Trump in the Senate against the charge that he incited the deadly invasion of […] Read more
President Joe Biden is set to sign executive actions Thursday aimed at expanding access to Obamacare during the coronavirus pandemic and rolling back anti-abortion policies that had been expanded by former President Donald Trump. The latest moves add to the more than three dozen other presidential orders and memoranda Biden has signed in his first week […] Read more
A shift in federal health-care policy appears to be underway. As early as Thursday, President Joe Biden is expected to issue executive orders to temporarily reopen the health insurance exchanges, according to The Washington Post, and to address roadblocks encountered when low-income households try to access Medicaid. Although details are slim, the actions would reflect Biden’s […] Read more
A Texas man charged with invading the Capitol and threatening Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Monday that he was effectively following then-President Donald Trump’s orders when he joined a mob that stormed Congress on Jan. 6. Garret Miller also apologized to Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., for writing “Assassinate AOC” in a Twitter post. He said he would be willing to […] Read more
President Joe Biden said Monday that it could take weeks for Congress to finish talks around a coronavirus relief deal and for Democrats to decide whether they should forge ahead with an aid bill without GOP support. “I don’t expect we know we’ll have an agreement … until we get right to the very end of this […] Read more
Former President Donald Trump has hired a lawyer, South Carolina attorney Butch Bowers, to defend him at his Senate impeachment trial, which could start as early as next week. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a Trump loyalist, told fellow GOP senators on Thursday that Bowers had agreed to represent Trump in the case, where the former president is […] Read more
Democrats are expected take control of the Senate on Wednesday when three new members of the party are sworn in. Democratic Senators-elect Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff of Georgia and appointee Alex Padilla of California are set to take office in the afternoon, bringing the Senate party split to 50-50. Newly inaugurated Vice President Kamala Harris, who will […] Read more
Before departing Delaware for his inauguration in Washington, President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday delivered an emotional paean to his longtime home and his late son, Beau Biden. Biden, who is set to take office Wednesday, choked up at the top of his brief remarks at the Delaware National Guard headquarters in New Castle, which was named […] Read more
