All four Black House Republicans are retiring after this year, a reflection of the striking and persistent lack of diversity in the G.O.P. ranks of Congress.
A Republican-backed initiative has cleared the signature threshold for the election. Critics say the proposal could make it harder for people to vote.
President Trump is set to attend the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday evening for the first time while in the Oval Office. Trump announced in March that he would accept the invitation to the dinner "in honor of our Nation's 250th Birthday" after boycotting the event during his first administration and last year. The Hill's White House correspondent Julia Manchester speaks with NewsNation in advance of the event. #Trump #WHCA #Journalists
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President Trump has stretched the bounds of executive power to reward his allies for their loyalty, including with pardons and dropped prosecutions. But the lawyers in his orbit still face a threat of accountability from outside the government’s reach. Bar associations, the organizations that regulate the legal profession, are pressing on with disciplinary actions against Trump lawyers whose conduct they assert has called into question their fitness to practice law. Most deny wrongdoing and have condemned the proceedings as weaponization. The Hill's Zach Schonfeld and Ella Lee explore all of that and more in The Gavel, their newsletter covering the courts and legal issues. Read More:…
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Today, foreign journalists were permitted for the first time to visit the site of the fierce battle between US and Iranian forces in Isfahan.
Among them was The Grayzone’s Wyatt Reed, who documented the wreckage of US warplanes and found Iranians celebrating their destruction.Open
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'we don't expect ever a formal apology'
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FOX 32 Chicago reported that one of the officers is critically injured.
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Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.
Even a Times reporter qualified for the event, which caused outrage last year for providing access to President Trump in exchange for investment in one of his family’s crypto ventures.