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Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters drew ire from both parties during a United States Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday after she refused to answer questions about the dire state of American corrections facilities, the Associated Press' Michael Sisak reports."Senators complained ...

Republicans in the United States House of Representatives on Wednesday "failed to move forward on a procedural vote advancing a bill to fund the Defense Department after it became clear they did not have enough votes to secure its passage," adding to concerns that Congress will miss the September 30...

Republicans in the United States House of Representatives on Wednesday "failed to move forward on a procedural vote advancing a bill to fund the Defense Department after it became clear they did not have enough votes to secure its passage,"

Republicans in the Wisconsin State Senate on Thursday voted to oust Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe, The Guardian's Alice Herman reports."Legal experts and the Wisconsin attorney general have disputed the move by Republican senators to remove Wolfe, a respected and accompli...

Former Wall Street Journal Washington Bureau Chief and Bloomberg Washington Executive Editor Al Hunt warned in a dire opinion column in The Messenger on Sunday that criminally indicted ex-President Donald Trump "is the only candidate that I think poses an existential threat to Democracy" even though...

American fossil fuel giant Halliburton has been selling millions of dollars worth of oil and natural gas equipment to Russia, whose President, Vladimir Putin, launched his illegal conquest of neighboring Ukraine on February 24th, 2022, Daniel Boffey of The Guardian reports. "Amid pressure on all US ...

Former President Donald Trump seeks to "bury" Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' 2024 Republican presidential primary campaign as candidates stump their way through Iowa, Politico's Meredith McGraw and Sally Goldenberg report."Building on his seven visits to Iowa so far this year, Trump is embarking on ...

Tony Morton, a former South Park writer, is on a mission to "lampoon" right-wing activist group Moms for Liberty, which "has been at the forefront of a national movement to ban books (or even yearbooks) containing race, gender, LGBTQ themes, and sexual content," The Daily Beast's Kate Briquelet repo...

Former President Donald Trump could "lose the popular vote, lose the electoral college, lose all his legal cases and still end up president of the United States in an entirely legal manner" in 2024, The Guardian’s Stephen Marche warns in a Monday opinion column. "It's called a contingent election."M...

The latest potential government shutdown looming over Washington could outlast its predecessors unless congressional lawmakers quickly figure out how to transcend their ideological schisms. But as Ed Kilgore writes in New York Magazine's Intelligencer on Monday, United States House of Representative...