Post Politics Now: ‘A lot more work to do’ on guns, Biden says after latest mass shooting
In a White House ceremony, the president is scheduled to award the Medal of Honor to four soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War. John Wagner Link...
New Jan. 6 Trump documentary footage revealed
POLITICO has exclusively obtained a trailer for Alex Holder’s “Unprecedented,” the British filmmaker’s upcoming Discovery+ docuseries about the Trump family. The two-minute-plus trailer was included among the hours of footage that Holder turned over to the House Jan. 6 committee under subpoena. Holder gave testimony to the committee behind...
U.S. military’s newest weapon against China and Russia: Hot air
The Pentagon is quietly transitioning high-altitude balloon projects to the military services. By Lee Hudson Link...
Meet the GOP deal-makers-in-waiting who Dems may find essential in 2023
Reps. Kelly Armstrong and Hakeem Jeffries started their unlikely sentencing reform partnership from a predictable place: screaming at each other in a Judiciary Committee hearing. “We were going back and forth and pretty animated,” Armstrong said in an interview. “Then during a break, we started talking … and I’m...
Despite rebukes, Trump’s legal brigade is thriving
Juli Haller was part of Donald Trump’s legal brigade in Michigan, filing a lawsuit alongside the ubiquitous Sidney Powell that claimed absentee vote counts were likely manipulated by a computer algorithm developed by allies of deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez. The lawsuit was quickly deemed baseless, and she was...
The lore of ‘CODELs’: How foreign travel helps Congress at home
MADRID — Thom Tillis and Chris Murphy’s work on a once-in-a-generation gun safety bill began thousands of miles away from the Capitol, in the Western Balkans. The North Carolina Republican and the Connecticut Democrat barely knew each other at the time and had no predetermined reason to link up,...
Abortion decision: How does overturning Roe affect Black women? | Opinion
Zoë Petersen, Deseret News Roe v. Wade is history; abortion is not a constitutional right. The Supreme Court sent the question of abortion back to the states to be decided by the people and their elected representatives. And so it begins: the incantation to change Black women — especially...
How did the Supreme Court rule in religion cases in 2022?
Illustration by Alex Cochran, Deseret News Earlier this year, as Republicans and Democrats clashed over Christian nationalism, religious exemption requests and access to communion, the Supreme Court showed that it’s still possible to tame the partisan tensions suffusing religious freedom debates. Its rulings in the term’s first two religion...
Griner sends letter to President Biden pleading for his help
Brittney Griner has made an appeal to President Joe Biden in a letter passed to the White House through her representatives saying she feared she might never return home and asking that he not “forget about me and the other American Detainees.” Griner’s agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas said the...
At least six dead in shooting at July Fourth parade outside Chicago
At least six die and more than two dozen are injured in mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Ill. Mark Guarino Link...