Pentagon chief Austin: Anti-extremism push not about ‘political parties or political beliefs’
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday that the Pentagon’s anti-extremism initiative is in no way about troops’ individual political beliefs.
Congressional Republicans have a plan for Democrats’ repeated claim that White supremacists infest the Republican Party: silence.
SharesTwo more women came forward over the weekend and accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual misconduct, increasing pressure on the embattled Democrat to resign.
SharesDefense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday that the Pentagon’s anti-extremism initiative is in no way about troops’ individual political beliefs.
SharesThe Senate on Saturday approved a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill in a party-line vote, advancing President Biden’s top legislative priority after an all-night partisan showdown over the massive spending.
SharesSenate Democrats struck a deal late Friday to extend unemployment benefits with a $300 boost, allowing work on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package to resume after a roughly 11-hour delay.
SharesSen. Joe Manchin III on Friday knocked President Biden for canceling the Keystone XL pipeline and urged environmentalists activists and fellow Democrats to make peace with oil and natural gas pipelines.
SharesThe Biden White House has recruited a leading Big Tech critic to join the National Economic Council.
SharesFar-left activists are furious with the “corporate Democrats” that sided with Republicans against Sen. Bernard Sanders’ latest push to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.
SharesPresident Joseph R. Biden said Friday the American Rescue Plan Act making its way through Congress will help lift up millions of American - including those that are worried that their enhanced unemployment benefits will run out.
SharesProtesters closed all major roads leading to the Lebanese capital on Monday, causing traffic jams and triggering a call by the head of the hospitals union who warned that such moves are preventing oxygen supplies from reaching medical centers treating coronavirus patients.
SharesProminent activist Sima Samar has been fighting for women’s rights in Afghanistan for the past 40 years. She believes her struggle is far from over - especially at a time when violence is on the rise, peace talks between rival Afghan groups are stuck and the U.S. mulls a May departure from her country.
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SharesPhilippine police backed by military forces killed nine people over the weekend in a series of raids against suspected communist insurgents, with authorities saying the suspects opened fire first. Others, however, said those killed were unarmed activists.
SharesPresident Biden and a bipartisan caucus on Capitol Hill may have just taken the first step toward a deal that has eluded Washington for more than a decade: the establishment of clear, narrow limits on a commander in chief's authority to take the country into war.
SharesThe White House on Sunday ratcheted up pressure on the House's progressive Democrats to fall in line and pass President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package after the Senate watered down some far-left priorities in the bill.
SharesThe New Hampshire Senate has given preliminary approval to a bill aimed at improving children’s mental health at a time when the number of children waiting for inpatient psychiatric care has grown dramatically during the pandemic.
SharesNew York Democratic leader calls for Gov. Cuomo to resign amid sexual harassment allegations, nursing home scandal.
SharesThe two top Democrats in New York’s legislature withdrew their support for Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday amid mounting allegations of sexual harassment and undercounting COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes.
SharesPresident Biden on Sunday issued executive orders for federal agencies to promote voting access including registering voters and helping inmates in federal prisons to vote.
SharesPayments for dead wolves. Unlimited hunting of the animals. Shooting wolves from the air.
SharesRepublican state lawmakers are pushing for social media giants to face costly lawsuits for policing content on their websites, taking aim at a federal law that prevents internet companies from being sued for removing posts.
SharesClyde Robinson treasures the acre of land he inherited, a verdant space tucked into a cul-de-sac in a south Memphis neighborhood, surrounded by houses and trees beside a railroad track.
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