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Rep. Tom Kean Jr. absent from House for over a month as GOP majority hangs in the balance

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

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

Supreme Court takes up Trump administration's authority to revoke protected status for Haitians and Syrians

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

California vineyard owner killed by elephants during licensed hunt in Gabon

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

SAVE Act amendment falls short as four Senate Republicans side with Democrats in late-night vote

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

Left cries racism after Trump criticizes Justice Jackson's record on the bench

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

Georgia Democrat David Scott dies at 80, widening GOP House majority as special election looms

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

Schumer cries foul over SPLC indictment, but the fraud charges tell a different story

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

Chinese student charged with photographing military aircraft at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska

Federal agents arrested a 21-year-old Chinese national at JFK Airport on April 7 as he tried to board a flight…
By Matt Boose

Florida Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick quits Congress minutes before ethics sanctions hearing

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned from Congress on Tuesday, roughly 30 minutes before the House Ethics Committee was set to consider…
By Francis Walshe
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