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Justice Department restores firing squads and expands federal execution methods

The Department of Justice on Friday announced it will bring back firing squads as a permitted method of federal execution,…

By Travis Johnson

President Trump personally canceled a planned diplomatic mission to Pakistan for U.S.-Iran talks, pulling special envoys Jared Kushner and Steve…

By Jacob Stewart

New Jersey Republican Thomas Kean Jr. has not cast a vote on the House floor since March 5, missing more…

By Travis Johnson

Four Senate Republicans joined every Democrat on the floor early Thursday morning to defeat an amendment that would have attached…

By Elizabeth Delaney

The Supreme Court will hear oral argument Wednesday on whether the Department of Homeland Security can strip Temporary Protected Status…

By Francis Walshe

Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old California vineyard owner and lifelong big-game hunter, was trampled to death by elephants in Gabon's Lope-Okanda…

By Matt Boose

President Donald Trump took aim at the Supreme Court on Wednesday morning, posting a broadside on Truth Social that criticized…

By Jacob Stewart

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor Wednesday to denounce the Justice Department's 11-count indictment of the…

By Samuel Lee

U.S. Rep. David Scott, the Georgia Democrat who became the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, died Wednesday…

By Elizabeth Delaney

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told a reporter on Capitol Hill Monday that President Donald Trump might do less harm on a…

By George Robertson

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