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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Read More »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, …
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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 …
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Washington — CBS News has learned of a series of efforts on Capitol Hill in the final days of the 117th Congress to make it easier to remove the embattled Architect of the Capitol or to reduce his ability to misuse a perk of his office. The new efforts …
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Former Trump White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway met on Monday with staff members of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Conway’s attorney, Emmet Flood, joined her for the meeting. Conway arrived at the conference room where the committee meets shortly after …
Read More »The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a long-awaited list of cyber performance goals for the nation’s critical infrastructure. The 28-page guide represents a major step forward for the Biden administration’s cyber agenda, featuring a broad list of cybersecurity performance goals and a substantial glossary of terms. The …
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The Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit against tech giant Google, alleging the company has been suppressing its email solicitations ahead of the midterm elections in November — an allegation Google denies. The lawsuit, filed in the District Court for the Eastern District of California Friday evening, accuses Gmail …
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