Black women feel sting of “traumatizing” Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings
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Takeaways: Ketanji Brown Jackson makes history, GOP vows no “spectacle”
History was made the instant Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court.
Big voting bill faces defeat as 2 Dems won’t stop filibuster
WASHINGTON (AP) — Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights leaders say is vital for protecting democracy appeared headed for defeat as the Senate churned into debate Tuesday, a devastating...
Biden warns of US peril from Trump’s ‘dagger’ at democracy
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden forcefully blamed Donald Trump and his supporters Thursday for holding a “dagger at the throat of democracy” with election lies that sparked last year's...
A year after Jan. 6, Congress is more deeply divided than ever
A deeply divided Congress is about to show the world a very unsettled view from the U.S. Capitol: Rather than a national crisis that pulls the country together, the deadly...
Schumer: Senate to vote on filibuster change on voting bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Days before the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the Senate will vote soon on easing filibuster rules in...
Biden and Dems scramble to salvage social, climate package
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, along with progressive and moderate Democrats, appears determined to return to the negotiating table with Sen. Joe Manchin, the holdout Democrat who effectively tanked...
Democrats try to ‘build back’ after Manchin tanks $2T bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are struggling to pick up the pieces after Sen. Joe Manchin effectively crushed President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill. But they face serious questions whether...
Biden sounds alarm at virtual summit about global democracy
President Joe Biden on Thursday opened the first White House Summit for Democracy by sounding an alarm about a global slide for democratic institutions and called for world leaders to...
Congressional leaders reach deal to hike debt limit
Congressional leaders reached an elaborate deal Tuesday that will allow Democrats to lift the nation鈥檚 debt limit without any votes from Republicans, likely averting another last-minute rush to avoid a...