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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her picks for the select committee to investigate the deadly attack on the United States Capitol. The Select Committee on the January 6th Insurrection will investigate and report upon the facts and causes of the terrorist mob attack on the United States Capitol on January …

Miya Ponsetto, a California woman that was filmed attacking a 14-year-old boy in a New York City hotel over a cell phone, has been charged with a federal hate crime. Ponsetto pleaded not guilty to charges of unlawful imprisonment as a hate crime, aggravated harassment, and endangering the welfare of …

Following a two-year investigation, Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg and the company were charged by the Manhattan district attorney with financial crimes, including scheme conspiracy, grand larceny, criminal tax fraud, and falsifying business records. Both the organization and Weisselberg have pleaded not guilty on all charges. The 73-year-old was pictured …

Former Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, who presided over the Pentagon when the United States went to war against Iraq and Afghanistan, has died. “It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the passing of Donald Rumsfeld, an American statesman and devoted husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather,” …

A second member of the right-wing terrorist organization, Oath Keepers, will cooperate with federal prosecutors and testify against other organization members. Mark Grods, a 54-year-old who admitted he brought firearms to D.C. and was part of the tactical “stack” formation that advanced toward the Capitol that day, made a deal …

Democrats this week are preparing to pass a $715 billion transportation package called the INVEST in America Act. According to CBS News, the transportation bill would allocate $343 billion to roads, bridges, and safety; $109 billion would be given to transit; $95 billion would be used on passenger and freight …

The U.S. House voted Wednesday to establish a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection, in which a mob of pro-Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol. The 222-190 vote was almost entirely party-line with just two Republicans joining Democrats in passing the resolution, which calls for a probe into “one …

A special grand jury in Manhattan has voted to indict former President Donald Trump‘s namesake firm, The Trump Organization, and its chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg. The charges contained in the indictment are expected to be unsealed Thursday afternoon, the sources said, when Weisselberg and a representative of the Trump …

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, on Tuesday night, vetoed a measure that would have paved the way for tens of thousands of minors to get their criminal records erased after completing a behavioral program. The veto was unexpected by lawmakers who said the proposal moved through the legislative process with little …

President Joe Biden promoted the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Tuesday. “After months of careful negotiation of listening, compromising together and in good faith, moving together with ups and downs and some blips, a bipartisan group of senators got together and they forged an agreement …

The House is set to vote Wednesday afternoon on creating a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced the resolution to create the select committee earlier this week after efforts for a bipartisan special commission on the ransacking of the Capitol …

The House overwhelmingly voted Tuesday in support of legislation that would remove statues of Confederate officials from the Capitol as well as the bust of the Supreme Court chief justice who penned the 1857 opinion in the Dred Scott ruling that said Black people weren’t citizens. In a 285-120 vote, …

The House voted on Tuesday to repeal a pair of decades-old war authorizations. A 1991 authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) in Iraq and a 1957 authorization for military action in the Middle East was repealed with bipartisan support in a 355-46 vote. The repeals come on the …

Tom Perez, who recently completed his term as chair of the Democratic National Committee, announced last week that he is running for governor of Maryland. Perez announced his bid on social media, sharing a campaign video in which he vowed to build a Maryland where all residents have access to quality …

Federal regulations on marijuana may “no longer be necessary” as individual states enact their own laws on its use and sale, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in an opinion Monday. Thomas, one of the high court’s most conservative justices, cited what he called the federal government’s “half-in, half-out” approach …