Politics

The federal government inadvertently published the Social Security numbers of 1,900 people who visited the White House in December 2020, as part of the final report published by the Jan. 6 House select committee late last year, the Government Publishing Office’s (GPO) inspector general acknowledged in a report Friday.  In February …

A bipartisan group of Congressional lawmakers moved Tuesday to further restrict xylazine, a veterinary sedative also known as tranq, in an effort to crack down on the drug’s spread. Xylazine is increasingly being cut into other drugs, with the Drug Enforcement Administration saying it had found xylazine in nearly a quarter of the …

Hunter Biden is suing a Delaware-based computer repairman for invasion of privacy and publication of private information. The counterclaim lawsuit, which also responds to repairman John Mac Isaac’s libel lawsuit, argues that Mac Isaac invaded Biden’s privacy in 2019 by accessing and wrongfully sharing his personal data with several individuals.  …

The FBI is searching for a Florida woman who was supposed to stand trial beginning Monday on charges stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, as well as another riot defendant who is now also missing, officials said. A federal judge in Washington issued bench warrants for the arrest …

Washington — A bipartisan group of six senators, including the two from Ohio, introduced rail safety legislation Wednesday aimed at preventing future derailments following the toxic train disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, that sparked serious health and environmental concerns for the area’s residents. Called the Railway Safety Act of 2023, …

Washington — Federal prosecutors have asked the chief judge in Washington, D.C.’s federal court to compel former Vice President Mike Pence to comply with a grand jury subpoena and testify as a witness in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the …

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders, who served as White House press secretary in the Trump administration, will deliver the Republican response to President Biden’s State of the Union address, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a joint announcement Thursday.  The selection of the opposite party’s …

New Mexico judge David Murphy has ordered former Republican state house candidate Solomon Pena held in pretrial detention in Pena’s conspiracy case, saying there were no conditions of release that would ensure public safety.  Pena is accused of leading a conspiracy of five people to fire bullets into the homes …

A lesion removed by surgeons last week from first lady Jill Biden’s left eyelid was a non-cancerous growth, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, physician to President Biden, said Wednesday. O’Connor said in a memo released by the White House that a biopsy showed that the legion was seborrheic keratosis, a “very common, …

Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel to investigate documents with classified markings found at President Biden’s former office at a Washington think tank and in the garage at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. Garland had previously appointed John Lausch, who is the U.S. attorney in Chicago, to …