(GENEVA) -- U.S. President Joe Biden held a high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday at what the leaders agree is a "low point" in the U.S.-Russia relationship. The two men faced off inside an 18th-century Swiss villa, situated alongside a lake in the middle of Geneva's Parc…
(WASHINGTON) — Following their "very robust conversation" with Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic state legislators from Texas conceded that while the Biden administration wants to see federal voting reform legislation make it to the president's desk, the hurdle to passage is the U.S. Senate -- but they aren't giving up on conversations with those…
(WASHINGTON) -- The number of domestic terrorism investigations has "increased significantly" over the past year, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday, unveiling the Biden administration's new strategy to counter domestic terrorism. "Over generations to come, the national strategy recognizes that we cannot prevent every attack, the only way to find…
(WASHINGTON) -- Ahead of President Joe Biden’s meeting Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, congressional Democrats said they are no longer seeking records of former President Donald Trump’s private meetings with the Russian leader, despite previous concerns Trump tried to conceal details of their conversations. "The Biden administration is looking…
(WASHINGTON) -- Progressive Democrats are threatening to sink a bipartisan infrastructure proposal if they do not receive assurances that moderate and conservative members of their own party would back a go-it-alone effort to pass President Joe Biden's other key infrastructure priorities. Those progressives want a guarantee that Democrats would unite…
(WASHINGTON) — Then-President Donald Trump’s assistant, on his behalf, emailed the official who would become acting attorney general about investigating false claims of 2020 election fraud, documents released by the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday show. The emails to Jeffrey Rosen, from Trump's former assistant -- with the subject line…
(WASHINGTON) -- "America is back," says President Joe Biden, and so are July Fourth traditions in the nation's capital. Though the country isn't on track to meet Biden's goal of having 70% of American adults vaccinated with at least one dose by July Fourth, the White House is eager to…
(WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev was sentenced to death in May 2015 for the April 15, 2013 bombing that killed three. However, a federal appeals court overturned the death sentencing last summer, ruling…
(WASHINGTON) -- In a new warning to congressional lawmakers, the FBI assesses that frustrated followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory could turn from online talk of violence to causing real-world violence. The FBI warning about domestic violent extremists (DVE) comes as the Biden administration on Tuesday released a new strategy…
(WASHINGTON) -- Vice President Kamala Harris, the nation's highest-ranking woman in government, is hosting a first-of-its-kind dinner at the Naval Observatory Tuesday evening for her female colleagues in the Senate -- a show of bipartisanship in a deeply divided Washington. Harris invited all 24 of the country's female senators --…
