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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on a deal struck yesterday with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to raise the national debt limit in the…
The debt-limit agreement forged by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy heads into a crucial final stretch with less than a week to win congressional passage before a June 5 default deadline. Biden and McCarthy spent much of the Memorial Day holiday lobbying members of their respective parties to build enough support ahead of a House vote expected Wednesday. If the two leaders ...
U.S. President Barack Obama presents Erica, right, and Cheryl Lafferty with the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal, the nation's second-highest …
HARTFORD, Conn. — Erica Lafferty, daughter of slain Sandy Hook Principal Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, is 34 days into what she hopes will be lifesaving cancer treatment. Each and every one of those days, spent enduring the life altering symptoms of chemotherapy and radiation, she’s had to wonder whether or not she can afford to keep fighting. “There has not been one single day that I haven’t ...
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) walks through the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on May 30, 2023. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)
Right-wing Republican lawmakers Tuesday sought to derail the deal between President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to raise the debt ceiling. Although the agreement still seemed on track to passage, members of the conservative Freedom Caucus said they would vote against the measure in the powerful GOP-led rules committee in a gambit to prevent it from ever reaching the House floor. ...
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, center, arrives at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Jose, California, on F…
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has reportedly surrendered herself to prison Tuesday, after a dramatic, years-long fall from charismatic, high-flying CEO to just one among hundreds of inmates — U.S. Bureau of Prisons register number 24965-111 — at minimum-security prison camp Bryan in Texas. Under federal prison rules, the 39-year-old mother of two young children must serve at least 9 1/2 ...
State Sen. Royce West, center, D-Dallas, chatted in the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Austin on Thursday, May 4, 2023. (Juan Figueroa/The D…
AUSTIN, Texas — Despite a near $33 billion budget surplus, the Texas Legislature failed to reach agreement on what was described as the biggest property tax cut in history. Lawmakers didn’t come together to give pay raises to public school teachers or significantly improve access to health care. Instead, legislators used the 140-day session that ended Monday to pass a broad array of ...