Freshman House Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) is heading up the Democrats' latest gun control push by seeking to ban "zombie guns."
A onetime White House valet for Donald Trump told House investigators that the former president threatened Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, and his way of dealing with documents was to "throw them on the floor," newly released records show. This new perspective inside the Trump Administration appears in the Jan. 6 Select Committee's transcribed interview with a White House staffer who was near the former president on the historic day when rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Barry...
Marilyn Lands's surprise victory suggests reproductive rights are key issue
New report said Kennedy family members stepping up effort to help Biden's reelection could take different forms. Comes after multiple Kennedys joined Biden for St. Patrick's Day at White House. RFK Jr. independent White House bid could be a spoiler for Biden in November
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President Joe Biden praised Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's Senate floor speech in which the leader called for elections in Israel to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu .
Today on TAP: If he will agree to a vote on Ukraine aid, it might be worth it.
NYC Council Members Carmen De La Rosa (District 10, Washington Heights, Inwood, Marble Hill), chair of the council's labor committee, and Pierina Ana Sanchez (District 14, University Heights South-Morris Heights, Mount Hope, Fordham Heights, University Heights North-Fordham, Bedford Park, Kingsbridge Heights-Van Cortlandt Village, Kingsbridge-Marble Hill), chair of the council's housing committee, share details of their campaign for a capital investment that would direct more money toward...
In 2013, when I was 13, one of the oldest comedy TV programs in Russia released a sketch in which a group of musicians performed a version of Queen’s “I Want to Break Free” satirizing the country. The lyrics went: “The roads in this country are like cars in this country. Like the salaries, the football, the communal services, and, of course, the cinema ” When Freddie Mercury sang “God knows,” it was twisted to sound like the Russian equivalent of “shit.” As the audience laughed, another actor...
Ahead of the 2022 midterms, I predicted that a Republican majority in Congress would result in two years of “mind-numbing, gut-churning inanity, the kind that becomes a weariness seeping into your bones.” That prediction has been largely vindicated, and yet somehow reality has proved even worse for the House GOP. Everywhere you look in the halls of Capitol Hill is a string of failures for the supposedly ascendent MAGA Republicans. Victories for the far-right have been few and far between, even...
President Joe Biden has won Missouri’s primary, the state Democratic Party announced. Biden’s win was not in doubt; he has already beaten his major competitors. But the primary races are still closely watched by insiders for turnout and signs of protest voters. Saturday’s primary was the Missouri Democratic Party’s first party-run presidential contest since a […]
Two high-ranking House Republicans announced on Friday that they will be stepping down from their positions as committee chairs, setting off a leadership scramble to fill the powerful vacancies. Just hours after the passage of the final fiscal 2024 spending bill, Appropriations Committee Chairwoman and retiring Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) wrote a letter to House […]