Could Democrats replace Biden as their nominee?
Washington is abuzz with fresh concerns about President Joe Biden’s fitness after a special counsel report released Thursday raised questions about his memory.
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Seeking cease-fire in Gaza, Michigan Muslims and Arab American leaders have heated meetings with Biden administration
The Biden administration held three separate heated meetings with Muslim and Arab American community leaders in Dearborn, Michigan, earlier this week — an effort to repair ties with a community that has been very critical of President Joe Biden's role in Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza.
IRS watchdog: Contractors who failed background checks maintained access to sensitive agency systems
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new IRS inspector general report said the nation’s tax collection agency continued to give 19 contractors access to sensitive systems despite having background reports that were returned as “not favorable.”
Uganda's diplomatic residence in Rockcliffe lost to 'unapproved' demolition
The City of Ottawa is taking enforcement action after a heritage-protected home owned by the Uganda High Commission was allegedly demolished without a permit.
US supreme court justices have strange views on whether Trump is disqualified
Elena Kagan once referred to Jonathan Mitchell sarcastically as “some genius”. That was in oral arguments surrounding SB8, the bounty-hunter abortion ban that Texas succeeded in passing before the overturn of Roe v Wade, which Mitchell wrote, pioneering a cockamamie scheme for evading judicial review.
Budget office projects Biden green energy plan will cost much more than initial estimate
WASHINGTON — The U.S. budget deficit will grow by an estimated $1 trillion over the next 10 years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected in a new report Wednesday. Part of that growth will be driven by unexpectedly high costs related to President Joe Biden's signature policy goal: Reorienting the U.S. economy towards greener energy, the CBO found. "I came to office determined to ... face the existential threat of climate and still grow, to fundamentally change our economy, and to transition this country to a clean energy future," Biden said last October. The CBO proje
Justice Department will not charge Biden in classified documents probe
President Biden willfully held onto and disclosed classified materials after leaving the Obama administration and becoming a private citizen, but his actions do no warrant criminal charges, according to a Justice Department special counsel report report released Thursday.
Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of effort to remove Trump from a state ballot
Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical Thursday of the effort to disqualify Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump from a state primary ballot because he allegedly engaged in an insurrection to try to cling to power after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden.