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Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Biden’s nominee for the Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator, withdrew after a Democratic senator said he would join Republicans in voting against her. Ms Raskin sent a letter to the White House on Tuesday with her decision, according to two people familiar with the decision. While that will leave the Biden … Read more
WASHINGTON — The escalating crisis in Ukraine is upending politics and political thinking both left and right on Capitol Hill as an immediate threat to world order and soaring energy prices strengthen the center policy at the expense of the flanks of both parties. When lawmakers gather Wednesday for a virtual speech by Ukrainian President … Read more
LaSALLE, Ill. (WLS) — There were moving stories Tuesday morning in the Loop of dozens of family members of veterans who died after contracting COVID-19 in the southern suburbs. The family members of 27 veterans are among lawsuits just filed against LaSalle Veterans Home, the State of Illinois, the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs and … Read more
Washington – Enrique Tarrio, leader of the far-right group the Proud Boys, will remain imprisoned pending trial, a Florida magistrate ordered on Tuesday. Tarrio was charged with conspiracy and other charges related to the assault on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. He was arrested in Miami last week after a replacement indictment was … Read more
Washington- President Biden will travel to Europe next week to meet with allies to discuss the West’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and their joint efforts to impose heavy costs on Moscow for its attack , White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed on Tuesday. PSAKI told the White House press conference that the … Read more
Chick-fil-A is the talk of Santa Barbara, California, where the fast-food chain finds itself the victim of its own success. Namely, the city is about to call it a “public nuisance” due to long drive-thru lines that often have cars full of hungry customers backed into the street for hours at a time. The restaurant … Read more
President Biden will attend an extraordinary NATO summit meeting in Brussels on March 24 and will also attend the European Union summit meeting on the same day, the White House and European officials announced on Tuesday. President Biden will travel to Brussels next week to attend the high-stakes rally to discuss ongoing deterrence and defense … Read more
Migrant arrivals at the southern border jumped 7% in February from the previous month, but US immigration officials also increased deportations, deporting more than half of those who entered government detention using the rules first issued under the Trump administration, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data released Tuesday. US border officials recorded 164,973 … Read more
A Rhode Island woman was charged in federal court on Monday for fraudulently claiming to be a United States Marine Corps veteran with lung cancer in a scheme to raise hundreds of thousands dollars in veterans’ benefits and charitable contributions. Rhode Island US Attorney Zachary Cunha says Sarah Jane Cavanaugh, 31, of Warwick, is accused … Read more
Proponents of the shutdown have suggested that some of the men who face charges could serve their sentences in the custody of another country. Convictions through plea deals could also persuade Congress – which prohibits the transfer of detainees to the United States – to lift the restriction in a bid to incarcerate inmates who … Read more