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The battle to expand Medicaid in Missouri has now shifted to the courtroom. A lawsuit was filed Thursday to force GOP Gov. Mike Parson to expand Medicaid on July 1, as voters approved in a ballot measure last year. The move comes a week after Parson said he will not broaden the public health insurance
Continue ReadingLabor Secretary Martin Walsh has denied he was aware of domestic violence allegations against the Boston Police commissioner when he appointed him to that position. Walsh tapped Dennis White for the job shortly after being nominated for labor secretary early this year. White was put on administrative leave just days after his appointment when past
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President Joe Biden — having weathered the first major foreign crisis of his presidency that tested the bounds of his decades-long friendship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — touted Thursday a ceasefire deal that appears to end the bloody 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas. In hastily arranged remarks from the White House delivered
Continue ReadingFederal prosecutors seized 18 electronic devices belonging to Rudy Giuliani and more than one of his employees when they raided his home and office last month, according to a new court filing. The letter, dated April 29, had been previously filed publicly with many redactions. The new filing, with fewer redactions, sheds a little more
Continue ReadingThe Trump administration secretly sought and obtained the 2017 phone and email records of a CNN correspondent, the latest instance where federal prosecutors have taken aggressive steps targeting journalists in leak investigations. The Justice Department informed CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr, in a May 13 letter, that prosecutors had obtained her phone and email records
Continue ReadingJustin Amash, a former Republican congressman, argued that propping up GOP Rep. Liz Cheney as “some sort of hero” for breaking with her party about former President Donald Trump “is a bit misguided,” criticizing her for not speaking up sooner. “We had four years where she could have stood up and said, ‘There’s a problem
Continue ReadingIn the weeks after Texas state Rep. Kyle Biedermann stood near the steps of the US Capitol where rioters soon brawled with police, he returned to the Lone Star State to introduce a bill paving the way for Texas to secede. “We have our own grid, we have our own gold depository, we have so
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden on Thursday touted the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas during a hastily arranged White House speech in response to the quick-moving developments in the Middle East. “We’ve held intensive high-level discussions, hour-by-hour, literally, (with) Egypt, the Palestinian Authority and other Middle Eastern countries with the aim of avoiding the sort of prolonged
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden plans to address quickly moving developments in the Middle East from the White House on Thursday evening. It will be the first time in a week that Biden has spoken publicly about the fighting that has raged between Israel and Hamas. He’ll speak at 5:45 p.m. ET Thursday. His remarks come as
Continue ReadingAfter taking back the House in 2018, Nancy Pelosi called herself “a bridge to the next generation of leaders” and agreed to a deal: she’d serve again as speaker for no more than four years. Time is now ticking — and no one knows what Pelosi will do in 2022. Confidantes of the 81-year-old speaker
Continue ReadingThe US military has seen a 55% jump in Covid-19 vaccinations among active-duty service members over the last month, a senior defense official told CNN. The increase comes after the Pentagon opened up vaccinations to the general population on April 19. Of the approximately 1.4 million active duty service members, some 500,000 had received their
Continue ReadingRepublican lawmakers have recently downplayed or outright denied the violence of the January 6 insurrection as a bipartisan agreement to investigate the siege is in limbo on Capitol Hill. But the mounting pile of evidence in the nearly 450 Capitol riot criminal proceedings — including hundreds of hours of videos, seized weapons, text messages and
Continue ReadingSen. Chris Murphy, who’s been leading the charge to secure a long-shot bipartisan deal on a gun background checks bill, told CNN on Thursday he thinks “it’s close” to the point where “we’ve got to put a bill on the floor,” a signal that hopes for a bipartisan agreement have faded and Democrats are all
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden became increasingly impatient with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following a blunt phone call Wednesday in which the US President set a deadline for violence to ease between Israel and Hamas. The call, which took place a day before Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in the 11-day conflict, was more
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President Joe Biden signed into law on Thursday a bill that is aimed at countering a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes during the coronavirus pandemic, saying the legislation is part of the nation’s first step toward unity. “I believe, with every fiber of my being, that there are simple, core values and beliefs that should
Continue ReadingIowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed legislation into law Thursday that blocks mask mandates from being implemented in K-12 schools and prohibits cities and counties from requiring facial coverings in businesses. Under the new law, public and private schools cannot enforce or implement a policy requiring school employees, students, or visitors to wear a facial covering
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Just south of Tucson, Arizona, lies one of the most treacherous stretches of the US-Mexico border: 262 miles of hot, dry, often mountainous terrain. Patrolling this area — which encompasses some 90,000 square miles — is the responsibility of US Border Patrol Tucson Sector, who we joined for several days of air and ground operations.
Continue ReadingThe United Nations refugee agency urged the United States on Thursday to end Trump-era asylum restrictions on the US-Mexico border the Biden administration continues to rely on. The Biden administration has been facing fierce criticism for leaning on a public health authority, known as Title 42, that was put in place under the Trump administration
Continue ReadingThe White House is backing off a May 25 deadline to pass police reform legislation, leaving timing up to lawmakers who are still engaged in bipartisan negotiations in both chambers of Congress. “We are in close touch and we certainly defer to the expectations of the key negotiators,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said
Continue ReadingJustin Amash, a former Republican congressman, argued that propping up GOP Rep. Liz Cheney as “some sort of hero” for breaking with her party about former President Donald Trump “is a bit misguided,” criticizing her for not speaking up sooner. “We had four years where she could have stood up and said, ‘There’s a problem
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