UPDATED, Jan. 13, 11:23 a.m.: This story has been updated to include information about Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s interaction with the committee. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the attempt to disrupt the Electoral College certification has issued dozens of subpoenas to people who may have information about what happened. […]
The anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is shaping up as another split-screen episode, a day when Americans can tune in to two mutually exclusive versions of what happened that day, and more importantly, what it means. They can watch President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris speak from Statuary Hall […]
When Dr. Mehmet Oz, the surgeon turned television personality, joined the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race as a Republican, he quickly drew fire. It wasn’t for advocating out-of-the-mainstream medical treatments, which he has, but for holding both American and Turkish citizenship. Former Republican political consultant turned Democrat Steve Schmidt tweeted his dismay. “A dual citizen cannot […]
If you want to get a feel for what drives the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, it helps to go back to Bolton, Miss., in 1973. That year, the rural town of about 780 people was on the verge of achieving a milestone of racial equality: A slate of Black […]
Streaming into a hearing days before Halloween, Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., held up a Mason jar full of blue, red, yellow and green M&Ms for a demonstration on Shell Oil’s capital spending. “Each M&M represents about $50 million,” Porter said during the Oct. 28 House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing with top executives from four […]
It’s crunch time for President Joe Biden and the Democrats. On top of keeping the government funded past September, and raising the federal debt limit so Washington can pay its bills, Democrats are confronting two pieces of legislation that will define them as they head into the 2022 midterms. There is the bipartisan infrastructure bill, […]
In his first address to the United Nations General Assembly as president, President Joe Biden said the coronavirus pandemic, climate change and other threats present world leaders with a stark choice at “the dawning of what must be a decisive decade for our world.” “We’re challenged by urgent and looming crises, wherein lie enormous opportunities, […]
Republicans are calling for the ouster of Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, following an account of Milley’s actions in the wake of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol building. According to the Washington Post, the forthcoming book “Peril,” by Post writers Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, tells how […]
UPDATE, Sept. 17: The FDA’s committee of outside advisers voted Sept. 17 for a limited booster rollout, stopping short of what the Biden administration had proposed for the general population. The FDA is not bound by the panel’s vote, but it counts for a lot when the FDA makes the final decision on boosters. The […]
When the Taliban controlled Afghanistan two decades ago, they were known for banning music and television, conducting public executions and imposing a fierce interpretation of Islamic law that sharply restricted the rights of women. Today, they intend to run the nation again — in very different times — and it’s not clear what that might […]
In Saigon, April 1975, throngs of desperate Vietnamese people scaled the walls of the American embassy, hoping to get to any helicopter that would carry them away to safety. In Kabul, August 2021, equally desperate Afghans mounted the walls of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, and filled the runways, also hoping to find escape. The […]
In quick succession, severe weather walloped towns and cities on three continents. In June, the thermometer hit 112 degrees in Portland, Ore., the result of an atmospheric anomaly called a heat dome. Then heavy rains brought floods to Germany and Belgium. And a July storm in China dumped a year’s worth of rain in four […]