Politics

ABOVE PHOTO: President Joe Biden signs the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, March 29, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) By Darlene Superville ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a bill into law to make lynching a federal hate crime, more than 100…

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ABOVE PHOTO: From left, Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., make statement as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol pushes ahead with contempt charges against former advisers to Donald Trump, Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino, in response to their refusal to…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrives to address an interactive session on “America, India and Democracy in the 21st Century” in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2006. The session was organized by The Aspen Institute India and Confederation of Indian Industry. Also seen background right is President of The Aspen…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the U.S. Congress by video to plead for support as his country is besieged by Russian forces, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool) WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cited Pearl Harbor and the terror attacks of Sept….

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ABOVE PHOTO: US Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Polish President Andrzej Duda give a joint press conference on the occasion of their meeting at Belwelder Palace, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, March 10, 2022. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP) By Aamer Madhani And Lisa Mascaro ASSOCIATED PRESS  WARSAW, Poland — Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip…

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ABOVE PHOTO: President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington as Vice President Kamala Harris and House speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., applaud. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP) By Zeke Miller And Colleen Long ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks at an event highlighting Newark’s efforts to replace lead water pipes, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022, at the Training Recreation Education Center in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah) WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has introduced the Senate companion to Representative Jamaal Bowman’s (D-NY-16) African American History…

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By BRIAN SLODYSKO WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats were picking up the pieces Thursday following the collapse of their top-priority voting rights legislation, with some shifting their focus to a narrower bipartisan effort to repair laws Donald Trump exploited in his bid to overturn the 2020 election. Though their bid to dramatically rewrite U.S. election law…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., speaks to reporters alongside Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., during a press conference regarding the Democratic party’s shift to focus on voting rights at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades) By Lisa Mascaro ASSOCIATED PRESS…

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ABOVE PHOTO: President Joe Biden leaves after speaking about the coronavirus pandemic in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on Aug. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) By Josh Boak ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON — By some counts, President Joe Biden can lay claim to a banner first year in office. But numbers…

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