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Republican proposal mocked as ‘Default on America Act’ at hearing drawing attention to potential cuts to key programsSenate Democrats held a hearing on Thursday to lambaste House Republicans’ proposal to raise the US government’s borrowing limit in exc…
‘In the richest country in the history of the world, nobody should be forced to work for starvation wages’, Vermont senator saysBernie Sanders on Thursday announced a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $17 an hour, saying the potent inflatio…
Enrique Tarrio’s conviction follows seven-day jury deliberationSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailFollowing vice president Kamala Harris’s meeting today with CEOs of tech companies including Microsoft and Google, Harris said th…
Central bank announces 10th straight increaseSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailJim Clyburn, a key Democratic House representative from South Carolina who served as House majority whip, endorsed fellow Democratic representative…
Decision clears way for incumbent New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand to run for re-election unopposed by congresswomanAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez will not run for a seat in the US Senate next year, according to her office, clearing the way for incumbent …
California senator absent for weeks as Democrats and progressives eye effect on pace of confirmations of liberal judgesCalls for Dianne Feinstein to resign from the US Senate because of ill health are not sexist or ageist, a prominent liberal columnist…
Justices will decide by end of week on whether to allow ruling reversing drug’s authorization from taking effectSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailA top House Republican has signaled that the party will indeed try to impeach ho…
Chief justice John Roberts pressed to open inquiry into conduct deemed inconsistent with ethical standardsThe US Senate judiciary committee’s Democratic members on Monday unanimously urged the supreme court chief justice, John Roberts, to investigate l…
The former presidential nominee was also the only Republican to vote to convict the ex-president in both impeachment trialsMitt Romney, the former presidential nominee, who as a Utah senator was the only Republican to vote to convict Donald Trump in bo…
Recently discharged from hospital for depression, lawmaker says he wants to be ‘the kind of senator that Pennsylvania deserves’Having just been discharged from a hospital which treated him for mental depression for six weeks, the US senator from Pennsy…