Washington Post: Politics
- Donald Trump endorses Sarah Palin for Alaska’s lone congressional seat
Sunday - 04/03/2022 - 09:58 PMPalin embraced Trump before he came to dominate the GOP.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Gap in Trump call logs on Jan. 6 ‘suspiciously tailored,’ Raskin says
Sunday - 04/03/2022 - 03:41 PMRep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said a gap of more than seven hours in official White House call logs on the day of the Jan. 6 insurrection was of "intense interest" to the House select committee investigating the insurrection.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - House Ethics Committee struggles to crack down on bad behavior
Saturday - 04/02/2022 - 04:20 PMThe House Ethics Committee has stayed on the sidelines as members of Congress have acted out in ways that aren't normally in their jurisdiction, threatening violence against other members and making up fake stories about lawmakers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- With Roe endangered, Democrats divide on saying the word ‘abortion’
Saturday - 04/02/2022 - 07:00 AMFor decades, Democrats used the word "choice" to underscore their support for abortion rights. Increasingly, abortion rights groups are demanding that "abortion" be used.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - House passes bill decriminalizing marijuana; Senate fortunes unclear
Friday - 04/01/2022 - 02:33 PMThe move comes as an increasing number of states have passed decriminalization laws.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Americans strongly disapprove of GOP pushback on Ketanji Brown Jackson
Friday - 04/01/2022 - 04:58 PMRepublicans pledged to treat Jackson better than Democrats treated Kavanaugh. Polls show Americans didn’t see it that way.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Marco Rubio thinks China is complicit in Russia’s war on Ukraine
Friday - 04/01/2022 - 06:00 AMSen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) joins James Hohmann for a conversation about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the threat posed by China.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Stewart Rhodes added to Jan. 6 lawsuit against Proud Boys, Oath Keepers
Friday - 04/01/2022 - 09:05 AMThe D.C. government has named more defendants to a lawsuit seeking to bankrupt the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress, a strategy that succeeded against organizers of a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Florida’s law limiting LGBTQ discussion in schools, explained
Friday - 04/01/2022 - 11:08 AMWhat the new law says — and what it does.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Biden marks transgender visibility day with new policies, GOP criticism
Thursday - 03/31/2022 - 02:13 PMThe administration’s spotlight on these issues comes as several Republican-led states have passed laws and bills that erode protections for transgender people.
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- How Trump allies are pushing to hand-count ballots around the U.S.
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 06:00 AMIn recent weeks, local officials have considered similar proposals in Colorado, Kansas, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, and bills to require hand-counted elections have been proposed in at least six states.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why Democrats hope Romney will support Ketanji Brown Jackson
Sunday - 04/03/2022 - 06:00 AMSen. Mitt Romney is one of the few Republicans holding out the prospect of potentially supporting Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme court. Some of her supporters are touting her views on religious freedom.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Russian forces pull back from Kyiv, exposing horrors of war
Saturday - 04/02/2022 - 08:02 PMRussian forces pull back from outskirts of Ukraine’s capital, leaving abandoned bodies in the streets and allegations of atrocities. Battles continue to rage in the east, the new focus of Russian invasion, amid frantic efforts to rescue trapped residents.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Many say they’re confused about whether, when to get second booster
Saturday - 04/02/2022 - 09:00 AMFederal health officials said those 50 and older could get the shot, while stopping short of recommending it.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Large parts of the Jan. 6 ‘gap’ have already been filled
Friday - 04/01/2022 - 04:50 PMNot all of the period in which no calls were logged is unexplained.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sarah Palin says she is running for Alaska congressional seat
Friday - 04/01/2022 - 10:19 PMThe Republican will vye with many candidates to fill the vacancy left when Rep. Don Young — the House of Representatives’ longest-serving active member — died last month.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Behind the Story: How we decide which abortion bills to cover
Friday - 04/01/2022 - 08:00 AMReporter Caroline Kitchener discusses how she tracks and reports on the dozens of anti-abortion bills being proposed across the country.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kids’ mental health is getting worse. But that predated the pandemic.
Friday - 04/01/2022 - 11:15 AMA stark new CDC report lays it bare. But the trends suggest the crisis won't go away if and when the pandemic does.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The political risks and realities of ending the covid border policy
Thursday - 03/31/2022 - 12:27 PMActivists have long pressed Biden to end the Trump-era policy. Why he's doing so now.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The incredible scale of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, visualized
Thursday - 03/31/2022 - 02:58 PMIt’s not kept in silos. It’s kept in caverns.
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- Senate starts voting today on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court bid
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 06:00 AMThe Judiciary Committee votes on Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination on Monday, and the nation’s highest court could be set for its first Black female justice by the end of the week.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Biden gets a strong jobs report, but a sour mood still prevails
Saturday - 04/02/2022 - 12:33 PMThe Labor Department issued yet another strong monthly jobs report, but Democrats aren't celebrating. They know that higher prices and other concerns have helped to keep Americans in a gloomy mood about the direction of the country.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - As Ukraine conflict rages, Congress struggles to legislate a response
Saturday - 04/02/2022 - 07:45 PMIn the five weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, Congress has yet to send a piece of stand-alone legislation to President Biden punishing Russia or aiding Ukraine.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What Jan. 6 filings suggest about Dec. 19 and Trump’s ‘will be wild!’
Friday - 04/01/2022 - 01:55 PMA review of more than 1,600 documents filed in Jan. 6 riot cases show the date Dec. 19, 2020, playing an outsize role.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Alabama man with molotov cocktails, guns on Jan. 6 gets 46-month sentence
Friday - 04/01/2022 - 02:55 PMThe Alabama man had a variety of loaded guns in addition to Mason jars filled with both gas and styrofoam, which experts said would have a "napalm-like" effect.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - No, Biden’s new deal with Iran won’t involve ‘U.S. taxpayer dollars’
Friday - 04/01/2022 - 03:00 AMGOP lawmakers are claiming Biden will give U.S. taxpayer funds to Iran, but this was always Iran’s money.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Some agencies resist Biden’s pro-labor orders, federal union says
Friday - 04/01/2022 - 06:00 AMAt the annual gathering of the American Federation of Government Employees, one of the biggest federal unions, leaders were full of praise for Biden's pro-union moves — but also slammed two agencies for holding onto Trump's anti-labor edicts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The first census records of three American presidents ... almost
Friday - 04/01/2022 - 10:58 AMThe release of the 1950 census allows us to see the first time America's three baby-boom presidents were recorded — or, at least, it should.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What explains the suspicious gap in Trump’s call log?
Thursday - 03/31/2022 - 11:58 AMNew details help clarify the possible explanations, including sloppiness, burner phones and a third option.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pelosi says Ginni Thomas texts show need for Supreme Court ethics code
Thursday - 03/31/2022 - 04:23 PM"If your wife is an admitted and proud contributor to a coup of our country, maybe you should weigh that in your ethical standards," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters Thursday.
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