President Joe Biden on Thursday said he is not certain his voting rights agenda will pass the Senate after he failed to secure sufficient backing from his own Democratic party. Immediately after a last-ditch meeting to persuade party members, Biden said he hoped “we can get this done but I’m not sure.” “It’s about election [&...
The U.S. Justice Department said yesterday it has charged the leaders of the far-right Oath Keepers militia and 10 others for their involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill attack. Stewart Rhodes, the group’s leader and founder, was arrested Thursday in Little Elm, Texas. A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted Rhodes and 10 [&h...
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of a woman who left Alabama to join ISIS, but then decided she wanted to return home. The justices declined to consider the appeal without comment Monday. Twenty-seven-year-old Hoda Muthana was born in New Jersey and grew up near Birmingham.
In an opinion piece published on the 20th anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo Bay prison this week, U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar called for its closure. She urged younger Americans to make it “a day to reflect, and to act”, as well as to put pressure on President Joe Biden to close the prison. The […]
President Joe Biden took a major political gamble Tuesday, calling for an end to the Senate’s supermajority rule. The aim is to allow Democrats to override Republican opposition to voting rights reforms, that Biden called crucial to saving U.S. democracy. Biden called the Capitol riot by supporters of Donald Trump last year an “attempted...
