A bipartisan group of lawmakers is set to reintroduce a bill to rein in price gouging by military contractors, CBS News has learned. The Stop Price Gouging the Military Act, first introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. John Raymond Garamendi in June of last year, would close acquisition law …
Read More »Trump calls special counsel Jack Smith “deranged” and a “Trump hater” at Georgia GOP convention
Addressing a standing-room-only crowd Saturday in Columbus, Georgia at the state’s GOP convention, Donald Trump called special counsel Jack Smith, who oversaw the investigation that led to the former president’s federal indictment, “deranged” and a “Trump hater.” Smith began investigating Trump in August 2022 after documents with classified markings from his …
Read More »Biden taps “unyielding patriot” Gen. Charles “C.Q.” Brown as Joint Chiefs chairman
Washington — President Biden announced he is nominating Gen. Charles “C.Q.” Brown Jr. to serve as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, unveiling his selection in a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday. The president said he can think of no one more qualified …
Read More »Ballot measures have been critical in defending abortion rights. Now, GOP politicians want to change the rules
Washington — On the heels of the overwhelming success abortion rights supporters saw at the ballot box in the 2022 election cycle, some GOP-led states have undertaken efforts to change the rules governing the ballot measure process, pushing new constraints that make it more difficult for initiatives to not only …
Read More »Biden meets with congressional leaders on debt ceiling, will cut Asia trip short
Washington — President Biden will still leave for Japan as scheduled on Wednesday but skip stops in Australia and Papua New Guinea to return to the U.S. early to work on the debt ceiling, the White House said. That news came as the president met with the top four congressional …
Read More »Dianne Feinstein returns to Senate after bout with shingles, casting first vote in 3 months
Washington — Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein returned to the Senate floor on Wednesday, appearing in public for the first time in nearly three months after health issues prompted even some members of her own party to call for her resignation. Feinstein, 89, was helped from a car outside the Capitol …
Read More »Special counsel’s team scrutinizing security camera video from Trump’s Mar
Security camera footage from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort has come under further scrutiny by federal investigators in special counsel Jack Smith’s office in recent months, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Prosecutors have asked witnesses testifying before a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., about the …
Read More »Jack Teixeira, suspect in leak of Pentagon documents, charged with unauthorized retention of classified material
Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Massachusetts man arrested for his suspected connection to the disclosure of dozens of secret documents that revealed sensitive intelligence and defense information, has been charged with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents. The airman in the …
Read More »Grand jury indicts suspect in assault of Rep. Angie Craig
A grand jury has indicted Kendrid Hamlin, the man suspected of assaulting Democratic Rep. Angie Craig, on three federal counts, including assault against a member of Congress. Hamlin stands accused in the Feb. 9 attack on the Minnesota representative in which she says she was struck in the face. Hamlin, …
Read More »Nebraska lawmaker 3 weeks into filibuster over bill that would restrict trans health care
It was a mundane, unanimously supported bill on liquor taxation that saw state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh take to the mic on the Nebraska Legislature floor last week. She offered her support, then spent the next three days discussing everything but the bill, including her favorite Girl Scout cookies, Omaha’s best …
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