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  • Manchin: Biden ‘went completely insane on me’ over American Rescue Plan opposition

    West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (I) said President Biden “went completely insane on me” over the senator’s initial opposition to the American Rescue Plan, the president’s first major piece of legislation. “I was going to kill the whole bill. Then the president went completely insane on me,” Manchin said in an interview with news outlet…

  • House sends Biden bill adding judicial seats after veto threat

    The House approved a bill Thursday that would create dozens of additional judicial seats over the next several years, sending it to President Biden’s desk after his administration levied a veto threat. The measure — titled the Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved (JUDGES) Act — cleared the chamber in a 236-173 vote, after the Senate unanimously passed…

  • Senate Democrats livid with exiting Sinema, Manchin: ‘Pathetic’

    Senate Democrats were livid after Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.), two longtime members of their caucus, voted Wednesday to block President Biden’s nominee, Lauren McFerran, to serve another five-year term on the National Labor Relations Board. Senate Democrats blasted their votes to sink Biden’s nominee and hand Republicans a major victory as…

  • A look at the political storm caused by South Korean president's martial law decree

    South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol defended his martial law decree in fiery comments made ahead of a second impeachment attempt and growing investigations into whether his short-lived power grab amounted to a rebellion. Yoon’s statement came on the 45th anniversary of a coup orchestrated by the country’s last military strongman Chun Doo-hwan and has deepened the turmoil paralyzing South Korean politics and diplomacy. In a surprise announcement at 10:29 p.m., President Yoon tells a national television audience he’s declaring martial law, saying the opposition-controlled parliament has become a “den of criminals” paralyzing government affairs.

  • Nancy Pelosi is now trying to tank AOC’s committee ambitions after helping orchestrate Biden’s fall, report says

    A number of ranking members on various panels who are in their seventies are facing challenges from younger colleagues

  • House Passes $884 Billion Defense Policy Bill

    The House on Wednesday afternoon passed the $884 billion defense policy bill for 2025. The measure passed in a bipartisan 281-140 vote despite the late inclusion of a controversial measure by House Speaker Mike Johnson that would ban the Department of Defense from providing gender dysphoria treatments such as hormones and puberty blockers “that could result in sterilization” for transgender children of servicemembers. Two hundred Republicans and 81 Democrats voted for the bill, while 124 Democra

  • House passes bill to add 66 new federal judgeships, but prospects murky after Biden veto threat

    What was once a bipartisan effort to expand by 66 the number of federal district judgeships across the country passed the House of Representatives on Thursday, though prospects for becoming law are murky after Republicans opted to bring the measure to the floor only after President-elect Donald Trump had won a second term. The Senate passed the measure unanimously in August, but the Republican-led House brought it to the floor only after the election results were known. The bill passed by a vote of 236-173 Thursday with the vast majority of Democrats opposed.

  • Senators say US must boost security after Chinese Salt Typhoon telecom hacking

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States must do more to address hacking threats after China's alleged efforts known as Salt Typhoon to infiltrate American telecommunications companies and steal data about U.S. calls, senators said at a hearing Wednesday. "This attack likely represents the largest telecommunications hack in our nation's history," said Senator Ben Ray Lujan, a Democrat who chairs a telecom subcommittee. "There's a lot that we still don't know about the damage that was done by the Salt Typhoon hacks, but what we do know is that more must be done to prevent attacks like this."

  • Biden readies travel bans on Georgia officials for undermining October election

    President Biden is readying visa restrictions on officials in the country of Georgia amid a government crackdown on mass protests against the claimed victory by the Georgian Dream party, which critics say is turning the country toward Russia. The administration is expected to issue a number of travel bans Thursday, according to people familiar with…

  • GOP senators fear House chaos could derail Trump’s agenda

    Republican senators fear the narrow House GOP majority in next year’s Congress could rain chaos on President-elect Trump’s agenda and are pushing to finish up work on the overdue annual appropriations bills before Trump takes office Jan. 20. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has insisted on punting the annual spending bills into March of next year,…

  • North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature erodes incoming Democrats’ political powers

    The North Carolina House voted Wednesday to override Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill that will restrict the powers of the incoming governor and other Democrats, clearing the way for the legislation to become law.

  • Grace Wong reveals pregnancy in stunning Santorini announcement

    The former TVB actress shares that she and husband will be welcoming a baby after eight years of marriage

  • Thai masseuse tells her side of story after singer’s death linked to ‘neck-twisting’ massage

    Autopsy confirms Chayada Prao-hom, 20, died due to sepsis, fungal infection, and swollen spinal cord

  • 2 Vietnamese police officials sexually attacked young women on visit to New Zealand, authorities say

    New Zealand authorities have “no doubt” that two Vietnamese officials sexually attacked two young female servers at a restaurant during a visit to the country, but were unable to charge the men before they returned to Vietnam, police said Thursday. Vietnam and New Zealand do not have an extradition treaty so the alleged attackers cannot be forced to face charges. One of the women said they were attacked at a restaurant in Wellington in March days before Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính was due to visit New Zealand.

  • Boy, 5, stuck in 150ft well for three days declared dead after being pulled out

    He was pulled out after a 56-hour rescue operation

  • Blake Lively goes braless in a plunging butter yellow sequin shirt

    Blake Lively wore a Sergio Hudson yellow sequin shirt, unbuttoned to reveal she was wearing no bra, with matching yellow trousers to the 2024 Beauty Inc Awards.

  • US serviceman sentenced to 5 years for kidnapping and raping Japanese schoolgirl, officials say

    A US serviceman was sentenced to five years in prison for kidnapping and raping an underage girl last year, an official from Naha District Court on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa told CNN Friday.

  • Gingrich: Xi attending Trump inauguration would be ‘signal to the planet’

    Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) responded to President-elect Trump’s invitation to Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend Inauguration Day in January, saying his acceptance would send a global “signal.” “Look, I think Trump believes in constant offense, constant momentum, keeping things going forward,” Gingrich told Fox New’s Jesse Watters in an interview Wednesday. “I…

  • Hannah Kobayashi found alive after father’s suicide

    A missing Hawaiian woman whose father killed himself during an extensive search for her has been found safe.

  • Bloody siege ends Myanmar army control of western border

    Insurgents seized Myanmar's border with Bangladesh in one of the bloodiest battles of the civil war.