Lois Lerner gave opening statement, then clammed up in 2013 hearing on IRS discrimination against conservative applications for tax-exempt status, and it didn't work, Sen. Lankford notes at Fauci's inquisition.
The former NIAID director refused to answer lawmaker questions throughout the hearing, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination, despite having a presidential pardon that covered his work during the pandemic.
Is a social media "like" an adoption of the comment? If the government lawyer whose job is to defend the FBI against wrongful-termination claims has publicly signaled she agrees with the people siung the agency, taxpayers have good reason to ask whether the Bureau is getting a real defense, or whether the case is compromised before it starts.
Opposition has grown against federal plans to allow oil and gas drilling at a more than 1,000-year-old Indigenous UNESCO site, which features the ruins of an ancient New Mexico community.
Five U.S. senators say the Daughters of the American Revolution should only be for women and are proposing a bill that would amend the organization's federal charter.
“The Biden admin gave BILLIONS of taxpayer money DIRECTLY to Big Insurance Companies. This is unacceptable. We are stabilizing the market so this bailout is no longer needed,” said Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Mehmet Oz.
U.S. Central Command says American forces began new strikes on Iranian targets Wednesday after attempted Iranian attacks on U.S. forces in the Middle East a day earlier. The response comes after Iran fired multiple ballistic missiles at American forces in the Middle East on Wednesday. The U.S. later partnered with Saudi Arabia to strike Tehran-backed militias in neighboring Iraq, killing at least 20 fighters.